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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
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Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch
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Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published
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Germany admitted to League of Nations
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Stock Market on Wall Street crashes
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Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin
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Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power
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Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops
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Nazis burn books in Germany
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Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party
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Germany quits the League of Nations
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The Nazi "Night of the Long Knives."
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German President Hindenburg dies
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Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany
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German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law
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German troops occupy the Rhineland
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Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia
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Civil war erupts in Spain
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British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich
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Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass
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Spanish Civil war ends
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Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals
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Nazis invade Poland
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Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany
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Hitler declares war on the United States
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D-Day landings on the northern coast of France
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Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies