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End of WWI
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Treaty of Versailles
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The League of Nations is formed
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U.S. Stock Market Crash
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Hitler Takes Power Over Germany
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Spanish Civil War
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Rome-Berlin Axis Formation
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Rape of Nanking
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Munich Pact/Agreement
Settled by the League of Nations to give Germany the right to annex Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. -
Nazi Soviet Pact
Officially know as the"Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", this pact, signed in Moscow, meant neutrality between Russia and Germany. -
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German Invasion of Poland
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Great Britain and France Declare War on Germany
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Winter War Start
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Winter War End
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London Blitz
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Lend Lease Act
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The "Final Solution" is Initiated
The plan to eradicate all Jews is implemented, 6 million Jews die to gassings, disease, shootings, starvation, as well as numorous random terror acts. -
Atlantic Charter
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Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombing of the United States base on Pearl Harbor is what causes the U.S. to start fighting in WWII, before, they had just been delivering supplies to the Allies. -
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Battle of The Midway
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Invasion of Sicily
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Tehran Conference
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Normandy Invasion (D-Day)
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Battle of the Bulge
Known as the largest battle on the European front, the Battle of the Bulge was a German initiative to drive a wedge between the U.S. and British armies residing in France, there plan ultimately succeeded in creating a "bulge", however the allies fought to eliminate that "bulge", and won. -
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Yalta Conference
From February 4, 1945 to February 11, 1945, Stalin, Winston Churchill, and FDR discuss the redistribution and re-establishment of the nations Germany destroyed and/or conquered. -
FDR Dies Leaving Truman as President
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Victory in Europe
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Potsdam Conference
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Nuclear Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
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Nuclear Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
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Victory Over Japan (Japanese Surrender)