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Benito Mussolini had become such a powerful figure that when he threatened to march n Rome, the King of Italy panicked and appointed him prime minister. -
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Josef Stalin takes over as ruler of the Soviet Union after, Vladimir Lenin dies. -
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Japan takes several cities in southern Manchuria -
Chapter 17 Section 4
The Neutrality Acts bans the United States from providing weapons to European countries at war. -
Chapter 18 Section 3
The Nuremburg laws in Germany stripped Jews of their German citizenship, and outlawed the marriage of Jews and non-Jews. -
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German dictator Adolf Hitler called hundreds of thousands of his followers to a week-long rally in the German city of Nuremburg -
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Sino-Japanese War begins. -
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Neville Chamberlain and the French president, Edouard Daladier, met with Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, Germany. They made a peace agreement named the Munich Agreement. -
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When Nazi thugs throughout Germany and Austria looted and destroyed Jewish stores, houses, and synagogues. This became known as Kristallnacht. -
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The Nationalist Army finally took the capital of Madrid and ended the civil war that raged Spain -
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Hitler and Stalin signs a ten-year Nonaggression Pact, which eliminated the danger of a Soviet invasion from the east. -
Chapter 17 Section 2
One week after the Nonagression Pact, Hitler invades Poland. -
Chapter 17 Section 2
Winston Churchill succeded Neville Chamberlain as prime minister. -
Chapter 17 Section 2
Germany takes control of France. -
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Roosevelt began limiting what Japan could buy from the United States. -
Chapter 17 Section 2
Hitler launches the greatest air assault the world had yet seen, the intense attack would be called the Battle of Britiain. -
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Japna allied itself with Germany and Italy through the Tripartite Pact. -
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Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in the nation's history. -
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Japan moves troops into French Indochina. -
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FDR wins election for third straight term. -
Chapter 17 Section 4
Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, authorizing the President to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security. -
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Japan signs a neutrality pact with the Soviet Union. -
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The Office of Price Administration was established by an executive order, this agency was to control inflation by limiting prices and rents. -
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The President signed Executive Order 8802, pening jobs and job training programs in defense plants to all Americans. -
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Winston Churchill and Roosevelt meet to negotiate the Atlantic Charter. -
Chapter 17 Section 4
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, which led to America, declaring war on Japan, and five days later Italy and Germany declares war on America. -
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The gpvernment set up the War Production Board to direct the conversion of peacetime industries to industries thar produced war goods. -
Chapter 18 Section 3
Nazis opened a specially designed gas chamber disguised as a shower room at the Auschwitz camp in western Poland. -
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The president ordered Executive Order 9066, it authorized the Secretary of War to establish military zones on the west coast. -
Chapter 18 Section 4
Japanese forces had overrun the British strongholds of Hong Kong and Singapore, seized the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, and invaded Burma. -
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Roosevelt established the Office of War Information to work with magazine publishers, advertising agencies, and radio stations to support enlistments. -
Chapter 18 Section 2
Germany invades Russia, and the Battle of Stalingrad is fought. -
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Victory Gardens produced about one third of the country's fresh vegetables. -
Chapter 18 Section 2
General George S. Patton the Americans successfully invade the large island of Sicily. -
Chapter 18 Section 4
The Allies pushed North from Australia and west across the Central Pacific. -
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D-Day, the invasion of West Europe by the Allies. -
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American troops were able to witness the horrors of the Holocaust for the first time. -
Chapter 18 Section 4
Marines stormed the beach of Iwo Jima. Which was a turning point in the War. -
Chapter 18 Section 4
The American plane, Enola Gay, drops a single atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. -
Chapter 18 Section 4
Japan surrenders aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. -
Chapter 18 Section 3
An international Tribunal composed of members selected by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France conducted the Nuremberg Trials.
