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Mussolini Takes Over Italy
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Benito Mussolini marches into Rome with a Fascist army. He says if the leaders don't surrender he will kill them.
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Quazoo,. 'March On Rome'. N.p., 2015. Web. 9 Feb. 2015.
HISTORYLEARNINGSITE.CO.UK
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The Beer- Hall Putsch
Click here for more info This was Hitler's attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, which many Germans thought had stabbed them in the back. References:
Ushmm.org,. 'Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch)'. N.p., 2015. Web. 9 Feb. 2015.
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The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923
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Kellogg- Briand Pact
More Info. The Kellogg- Briand Pact was the 1st pact that outlawed war to settle arguments. It did not stand very long, because only 15 years later, WWII started.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,. 'Kellogg-Briand Pact | France-United States [1928]'. N.p., 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
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US Stock Market Crash
Click here to pass History class The US stock market crashed in 1929 after millions of investors traded in all their money on Black Tuesday. The next day America dropped into the longest lasting depression in the Western Hemisphere. References:
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Japan Invades Manchuria
Click Here to Save Ferris Fearing that Japan was getting overcrowded, and that they would run out of space and food for its people, Japan invades Manchuria to create enough space for its people. References:
Historynewsnetwork.org,. 'Why Do The Japanese And Chinese Still Need To Keep Talking?'. N.p., 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
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Hitler becomes Germany's Chancellor
Click Here Now Although the president was originally intimated by Hitler and didn;t make him chancellor, However, Hitler's rapid growth of popularity in 1932 and 1933 almost guaranteed Hitler's seat as chancellor. References:
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Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
Click Here After Japan's invasion of Manchuria, the League of Nation's said Japan would thrown out if they didn't give China their land back. So Japan left instead of being kicked out. References:
Beyondbandofbrothers.com,. 2015. 'League Of Nations'. 13 Feb 2015
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First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
Click Here for more info The first anti-semitic law was that no German's could shop in Jewish shops.
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Ushmm.org,. 2015. 'Anti-Jewish Legislation In Prewar Germany'.
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The Holocaust
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Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany
Click here to be smarter On Jul 30th it was decided that more Germans would rather follow Hitler and the Nazis, than the currently standing Weimar Republic.
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Noël, Amber, and View profile. 2015. 'A.Day.In.My.Life: Berlin: A History, Part One'. Deutschevegan.Blogspot.Com.
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The night of the long knives (Rohm Purge)
Click here to not be dumb Adolf Hitler decides to massacre hundreds of his own Nazis becuase he considered them to be a potential threat in the future.
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www.alleycathistory.com,. 2015. 'Source Analysis - The Night Of Long Knives'. N.p., 2015. Feb. 9.
Historyplace.com
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Hitler openly announces to his cabinet he will defy the Treaty of Versailles
Click here Hitler reveals at a private cabinet meeting that will start to re-build Germany's army
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Historyplace.com,. 2015. 'The History Place - Triumph Of Hitler: Nazis March Into The Rhineland'.
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Creation of the Nuremberg Laws
Click here or else These laws prohibited German citizens from having relationships, or marrying Jewish people
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Jewishvirtuallibrary.org,. 2015. 'Background & Overview Of The Nuremberg Laws | Jewish Virtual Library'.
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Italy invades Ethiopia
Click here now Italy retakes Ethiopia, one of Africa's first independent countries, to re-claim land for Italy
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Rarenewspapers.com,. 1935. 'Italy Invades Ethiopia IN 1935... - Rarenewspapers.Com'.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
Click here for more information Hitler now officially breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending his troops into the Demilitarized Rhineland.
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Versailles, The, Unemployment Rises, Dawes 1924, Young 1930, Lausanne Conference, Nazi Party, and Rearmament Germany et al. 1918. 'Limbo: Between The Wars Timeline | Preceden'. Preceden.Co
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Rape of Nanking
Click Here If You Want to Live After hundreds of fueding the Japanese finally snapped, and killed half the population of Nanking, China. Japan was power-hungry after their successful invasion of Manchuria and decided to go on a conquest of China
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The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Rape of Nanking 1937-38
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Germany Annexes Austria
Click Here or be Annexed Austria, fearing Hitler and the Third Reich, give Germany their country in an attempt to re-unite the Austrian and German peoples
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Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
Click Here, there's pie In another occupation to regain former German land, Hitler says that if isn't given the Sudetenland, he will take it by force.
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Bbc.co.uk
BBC - GCSE Bitesize: The story of the Sudetenland
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Munich Conference
Click Here or be sent to to a conference on how to click on links After Hitler threatens to take the sudetenland The League of Nations meets with Hitler in Munich, and ultimately gives it to him.
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Alternative History
Munich Conference (Munich Goes Sour) N.p., 2015 Feb. 11.
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Kristallnacht
Click Here before stuff starts getting messed up Nazis storm Jewish stores, synogagues, and houses and break almost everything in them. References:
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Online Exhibition — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
USHMM.ORG
Kristallnacht: A Nationwide Pogrom, November 9–10, 1938. N.p., 2015. Web. 21 Feb. 2015. -
Einstein’s letter to FDR, “The Manhattan Project”
Click Here to read the Original Letter Noted physicist Albert Einstein writes a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the possible construction and use of nuclear weapons in Europe.
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Dannen.com
Einstein's letter to Roosevelt, August 2, 1939
KELLEY, P.
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Nazi invasion of Poland
Click Here or be invaded Despite threats of going to war against Britain and France, Hitler invaded Poland to regain more of Germany's territory that it lost after WWI
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Invasion of Poland, Fall 1939
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Germans invade Poland — History.com This Day in History — 9/1/1939. N.p., 1864. Web. 21 Feb. 2015. -
Evacuation of Dunkirk
Click Here This is Hitler's first big mistake. He allows British troops to be evacuted from Dunkirk so that they would just fight against him another day.
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Rania.co.uk
Rania - A Dunkirk little Ship
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France Surrenders
Click Here or surrender After Germany invades Paris, France signs an armistice and France remains in Axis occupation until it was liberated in 1944.
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Fall of France
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Battle of Britain
Click Here or be bombed Hitler tries to take out Britain with lots of air strikes and bomb raids.
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Rafmuseum.org.uk
Introduction to the Phases of the Battle | History of the Battle of Britain | Exhibitions & Displays | Research | RAF Museum
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Battle of Britain - World War II - HISTORY.com
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The Tripartite Pact
Click here for more infoGermany, Italy, and Japan formally become allies. References:
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Tripartite Pact.jpg - Fold3.com N.p., 2015. Feb. 13.
The Tripartite Pact is signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan — History.com This Day in History — 9/27/1940 N.p., 1779. Web. 23 Feb. 2015. -
Lend Lease Act
Click here to become president America signs a deal with its allies saying that they give them weapons if the countries pay them back
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Amerika Australia - Hisa.
'Lend-Lease Act - World War II -
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Operation Barbarossa
Кликните Здесь (That's "click here" in Russian) Hitler's plan to take over Russia. Also Hitler's First failure
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Operation Barbarossa | European history
The Atlantic,. 'World War II: Operation Barbarossa'. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
Discovery of Majdanek
To Learn more click here The Allies discover the first of Hitler's Jewish concentration camps.
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Jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Crematorium at Majdanek | Jewish Virtual Library
Scrapbookpages.com,. 'The Liberation Of Majdanek Concentration Camp By Soviet Troops July 23, 1944'. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Click here America is pulled into the war, after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, a navy port in Hawaii
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Pearlharboroahu.com
Pearl Harbor Tours, Memorials & Museums ~ Hawaii Tours, Visiting Pearl Harbor
Americaslibrary.gov,. 'The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor'. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
Creation of the United Nations
Click here to learn information that will give you a sense fulness in your life President Franklin Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill create the United Nations to take the place of the faulty League of Nations References:
Westminster Model United Nations
History.state.gov,. 'The Formation Of The United Nations, 1945 - 1937–1945 - Milestones - Office Of The Historian'. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
The Wannsee Conference and "The Final Solution"
Click Here Hitler and other German officials meet to discuss how to get rid of the Jews References:
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Final Solution
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Bataan Death March
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Japan forces over 75,000 Allied POWs to walk over 50 miles in harsh terrain
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Nationalmuseum.af.mil
Factsheets : Imperial Brutality: Bataan Death March
Bataanmarch.com,. 'Bataan Memorial Death March - White Sands New Mexico - March 22, 2015'. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
Doolittle Raid
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America bombs Japanese cities by having bombers take off form aircraft carriers for the first time
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The Doolittle Raid
Cv6.org,. 'The Doolittle Raid: April 18, 1942'. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
Battle of Midway
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America counter-attacks Japan thanks to breaking Japanese code machines
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Uss-hornet.org
Battle of Midway - WORLD WAR II - Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet Museum
Eyewitnesstohistory.com,. 'The Battle Of Midway, 1942'. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
Battle of Stalingrad
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Russian troops successfully stop German troops from taking over Russia.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Battle of Stalingrad | World War II
Stalingrad, Battle. 'Battle Of Stalingrad - World War II - HISTORY.Com'. HISTORY.com. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
Island Hopping (Buna-Gona Campaign)
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America quickly takes over key Japanese islands one after another.
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Kokoda.commemoration.gov.au
The Kokoda Track | Australians in World War II | The Pacific War | Into the Mountains | The stand at Isurava
U-s-history.com,. 'Island Hopping'. N.p., 2015. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. -
Operation Torch
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Operation Torch is the Allies invasion to take over Italy.
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Operation Torch
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Operation Overlord and D-Day
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D-Day is the Allied invasion of Normandy, France to capture Germany.
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Jaeger, R. and Plourde, C.
Welcome To Operation Overlord...Wanna Join the Fight?
HISTORY.com,. 'D-Day - World War II - HISTORY.Com'. N.p., 2015. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. -
Operation Valkyrie
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Operation Valkyrie was an assassination attempt on Hitler, set up by a german soldier. ¨Valkyrie¨ was actually Hitler's escape plan.
Some info on an movie about it
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Operation Valkyrie
Historylearningsite.co.uk,. 'Operation Valkyrie'. N.p., 2015. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. -
Battle of the Bulge
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After the Allies have liberated France, Germany makes one final attempt to defend Germany.
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Angelfire.com
Battle of the Bulge Pictures
Bulge, Battle. 'Battle Of The Bulge - World War II - HISTORY.Com'. HISTORY.com. N.p., 2015. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. -
Hitler's Suicide
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in an underground bunker.
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Operation Myth: The Soviet Union's Investigation of Adolf Hilter's Death - Historic Mysteries
Hitler, Death, and Adolf bunker. 'Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide In His Underground Bunker - Apr 30, 1945 - HISTORY.Com'. HISTORY.com. N.p., 2015. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. -
V-E Day
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This is the day that Germany announced an unconditional surrender, which means the Allies won.
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Bbc.co.uk
BBC - History - VE Day (pictures, video, facts & news)
Infoplease.com,. 'V-E Day: May 8, 1945'. N.p., 2015. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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To their end their war with Japan, the US bombs two Japanese cities and forces them to surrender.
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Newworldencyclopedia.org
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - New World Encyclopedia
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V-J Day
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This is the day that Japan surrendered the war after America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Nuremburg Trials
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German soldiers are put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
Nuremberg Trials Project -- Introduction
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Japanese War Crime Trials
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The Japanese are put on trial for war crimes, and crime against humanity.
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WW2DB
[Photo] Accused Japanese war criminals on trial at the Supreme Court of Singapore, 21 Jan 1946, photo 3 of 3
Pbs.org,. 'American Experience . Macarthur . People Events | The Tokyo War Crimes Trials (1946-1948) | PBS'. N.p., 2015. Web. 13 Mar. 2015. -
The Beginning of the Cold War
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The Cold War was a conflict between the US and USSR after WWII, where no country issued a declaration of war
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Today I Found Out,. 'How Did The Cold War Start And End?'. N.p., 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 20
