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Mussolini takes over Italy's Government (March on Rome)
Benito Mussolini came to power and they wanted his fascist party to be the most important political party in Italy
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Beer Hall Putsch
Beer Hall Putsch is a failed attempt of a coup by Hitler which eventually cause him to be sent to jail.
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is a peace treaty that was used to try to eliminate war
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US Stock Market Crash
The crash began on Black Thursday and after that rapidly started dropping and which caused many people to become unemployed. It then turned into a contribution to the Great Depression
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Japan Invades Manchuria
The Kwantung Army had invaded Manchuria which made them make a ¨puppet state¨ called Manchoukuo
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Hitler Becomes Germany's Chancellor
Hitler became germanys chancellor but it wasnt until 19 months later he he got absolute power
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First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
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The Night of the Long Knives (Rohm Purge)
Adolf Hitler had called for an assassination of his own members of the Nazi Party because he thought they could later become a political threat
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Hitler openly announces to his cabinet he will defy the Treaty of Versailles
On this day Adolf Hitler announced his plan to defy the Treaty of Versailles since it caused a lot if issues to German economy.
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Creation of the Nuremberg Laws
Nuremberg laws were a group of laws which made Jews lose their citizenship and rights as a citizen and rather made them "subjects" than german citizens.References
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Italy invades Ethiopia
Benito Mussolini adpoted hitlers plans to expand german territories by taking all territories that were considered German, which included Ethiopia.
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Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
The Treaty of Versailles stated that in Rhineland troops could not be taken through there but Hitler took control of the area and took his troops through the area. References
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Rape of Nanking
In Nanking, China Japanese armies killed and sexually assaulted men and women in the town after Japanese General Matsui Iwane had ordered that the town be destroyed. References
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Germany Annexes Austria
During the Third Reich Austria was a federal state of Germany, the austria-nazis overthrew their government to combine with the german-nazis.References
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Munich Conference
The Munich Pact was an agreement between Britain and Germany. I allowed Germany to spread its territory into German speaking land like Czechoslovakia
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Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
Hitler had threatened to take Sudetenland by force from Czechoslovakia but Britain France and Italy had wanted to avoid a war so they had signed an agreement stating that Germany could annex the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. But Czechoslovakian leaders were never informed
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Kristallnacht
A night where Nazis had attacked Jewish dominant cities in Germany and Czechoslovakia and killed a large amount of Jews this night is also referred to as "The Night of Broken Glass"
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Einstein’s letter to FDR, “The Manhattan Project”
The Manhattan project was all about atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in Einstein's letter it was all about the uses of atomic bombs.
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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Nazi invasion of Poland
1.5 Million German troops invaded Poland, Hitler had said that it was a defensive attack but Britain and France were not convinced.
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Evacuation of Dunkirk
The British had to decided to evacuate the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk by sea.
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France Surrenders
France had left Paris as an open city which made it be mostly occupied by Germans
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Battle Of Britain
At this time the battle of Britain was the largest sustained bombing campaign, it was a large turning point in WW2. It had saved the country from an invasion.
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The Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact was an Alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan to protect eachother and make sure none of them get invaded
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Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was an agreement that let the US stay somewhat neutral in the war but help anyone that needed help. They didnt stay neutral for long but it actually made them one step closer to entering the war.
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was Hilters plan to expand the living quarters of the Nazis to the east
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Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu. More than 2,000 American soliders had died in the attacks
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The Wannsee Conference and the “Final Solution”
On this day, high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered in Wannsee,Berlin to discuss what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." The final solution was a plan to kill off the European Jews.
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Bataan Death March
The Death March tortured prisoners held by the Japanese. Thousands of people died including Americans.
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Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Raid was the first US air strike on Japan in WW2. We didn't have any bases to easily attack Japan, so they went on planes and dropped them to attack
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a naval battle, fought with almost all aircrafts. when the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific.
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Battle of Stalingrad
On February 2, 1943, General Paulus surrendered 91,000 of his men and around 150,000 Germans had died. The Soviet victory at Stalingrad was a great humiliation for Hitler
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Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an allied invasion of northwest Africa, the American and British forces worked on the invasion and it had resulted in a large victory for them.
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Island Hopping
The US used a technique called Island Hopping which is a counter-offensive strike. The idea was that they wanted to capture certain key islands one by one to get closer to Japan
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D-Day and Operation Overlord
American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches. The beaches stretched along 50 miles with heavily fortified barriers. This invasion was a success for them.
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Operation Valkyrie
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Discovery of Majdanek
the Soviet army had marched near Lublin. They came across the abandoned Majdanek concentration camp, whose prisoners already had been taken on a death march. In attempt to conceal the remains of the camp they had burned it down but some of the gas chambers were still visible.
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Battle of the Bulge
Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in Northwest Europe using a strategy called blitzkrieg. American soldiers fought desperate battles but came to a victory with over 100,000 casualties.
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Hitler’s Suicide
Hitler committed suicide in an air raid shelter by consuming a cyanide capsule and shooting himself. His wife of 2 days had also committed suicide with him.
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V-E Day
V-E Day was officially announced end of Germany's participation in WWII. Which was a victory for the US and Great Britain so the name V-E Day comes from Victory in Europe Day
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
As revenge for Pearl Harbor an American B-29 bomber had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the bomb had immediately killed around 80,000 then hundreds of thousands would die from radiation exposure. Then a few days later another bomb was dropped on Nagaski killing around 40,000 more people
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V-J Day
Japan surrendered to the Allied forces, this had effectively ended WWII. This day is also known as Victory over Japan Day.
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Creation of the United Nations
The United Nations Declaration was signed by 26 representatives of 26 countries, everyone who signed had vowed to an international postwar peacekeeping organization
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The Nuremberg Trials
Trials were held for the Nuremberg Laws to bring Nazi war criminals to Justice, there were a series of 13 trials through 1945-1949.
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The Japanese War Crime Trials
28 Japanese military and government officials were accused of committing war crimes. 25 out of the 28 officials were found guilty.
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