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Lenin dies, allowing Stalin to come to power
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Japan seizes all of Manchuria
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Hitler becomes chancellor
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Spain's democractic government holds the country's last free elections before the civil war
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Mussolini overtakes Ethiopia and enforces fascism in Italy
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Japan resumes invasion of China
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Britain and France sacrifice Sudetenland to Germany to avoid conflict
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British and French leaders formally pledge to aid Poland if Germany invades
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Hitler invades Poland
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Japan's prime minister announced a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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German troops launch Blitzkrieg on the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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France surrenders Paris to Germany
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Hitler launched the greatest air assault against Britain
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Japan allied itself with Germany and Italy through the Tripartite Act
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Required all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service
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Roosevelt wins the re-election to his third term
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The Lend-Lease Act authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security
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Japan signed a neutrality pact with the Soviet Union
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The Office of Price Administration is established by an executive order
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Roosevelt signed the order, opening jobs and job training without discrimination
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Japan attacks the U.S. in Hawaii
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Roosevelt declares war on Japan
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Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
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Nazi officials met outside Berlin to agree on a new approach to extinguish Jews
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The president signed the order authorizing the secretary of war to establish military zones on the west coast
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Aircraft launched from from aircraft carruers bombed enemy ships more than 70 miles away
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Established by Roosevelt to stir American's patriotic feelings
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Fought entirely in the air, the U.S. and Japan fight for the island
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Germany and the Soviet Union fight in a bitter house-to-house combat
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African-Americans are given the right to fight alonside white soldiers
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One third of the country's vegetables are produced by victory gardens
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The Congress of Racial Equality is established
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Rioting Jews damage Treblinka death camp
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Roosevelt creates the WRB to try to help people threatened by Nazis
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19.4 million women are working in the U.S.
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The U.S. conducts the largest attack ever on Normandy Beach
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Nazis bush back the border into Belgium
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Thousands of Jews die on the eve of liberation as they march from camp to camp
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Japanese Americans are allowed to leave the camps
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The first day of invasion at Iwo Jima
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The Soviet Union captures Berlin, Germany
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After the Soviet Union captures Berlin, Germany's remaining troops surrender
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The small island was the last small stepping stone of Japanese soil in the Allied invasion of Japan
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Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb on Japan
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The International Military Tribunal made of the U.S., Great Britain, Soviet Union, and France conduct the trials
