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VE Day stands for victory in Europe day. It was celebrated on May 8,1945 after the Nazis and Getmany surrendered its forces to end WWII.

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August 1945 After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the US wanted to get back at the Japanese, however the US had been experimenting with nuclear bombs so they decided to test it out on the Japanese. The bombing killed about 130,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They still remain the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare history.

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December 7, 1941 Japanese planes left secretively to bomb Pearl Harbor, a naval base for u.s. navy ships. The Japanese attacked pear harbor to prevent the U.S. navy from interfering with their military actions in south east Asia and also out of spite because the US stopped sending them oil.

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March 1941 U.S. President Roosevelt began the "lend lease" allowing the U.S. to send ammo and needed war supplies to England. By doing this the U.S. was no longer a neutral nation and was helping England, one of the enemies to the axis powers

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January 1933 - May 1945 Hitler and his Nazis despised Jews and other races that didnt meet his criteria of "the perfect race". As Germany occupied more and more countries Jews were discriminated against and forced to live in Jewish Ghettos. Then they were forced into concentration camps where they were beaten, tortured, slaved, and killed. Throughout the Holocaust about a total of 11 million people were killed. After the war some concentration camps were liberated.

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September 27, 1940 Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan all sign a ten year agreement (tripartite pact) making the three countries allies so they can team up together and go against England and France. The pact was also seen as a warning for the U.S. to stop helping England and France.

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July-October 1940 The Battle of Britain is the first major battle to ever be fought almost entirely in the air. During the battle the German's lost over 1,700 aircrafts and the British only lost about 900. The battle ended in defeat for the Nazi's making it their first major loss during the war.

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September 1940 Japanese troops start to occupy the French colony of Indochina to stop the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel. The U.S. was not happy with Japan at all so the responded by cutting off all oil exports to Japan, Japan not happy with the actions by the U.S. they began to secretly plan the Attack at Pear Harbor

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September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland in a Blitzkrieg. England and France then declare war on Germany starting the European War which will then turn into WWII.

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A segment from the 1942 U.S. government film "The World at War." Posted by David Burns for the Fasttrack American History Project. Teachers: For full screen use, choose the "watch in high quality" option or download the free MPEG file for this video from the online Prelinger Archive.

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August 23, 1939 Germany leader, Hitler and Soviet Union leader, Stalin, both enemies, agree to sign the nonaggression pact eliminating military action between the two countries for 10 years. However this pact secretly accepted Germany's plan to invade Poland.

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September 29, 1938 Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France all sign the Munich Agreement forcing the Czechoslovak Republic to give up the Sudetenland and their military defense positions to Nazi Germany.

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October 25, 1936 Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy both sign a treaty of cooperation, then 5 days later the Rome-Berlin Axis was announced.

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September 18, 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria, China. Japan invaded Manchuria following the Mukden Incident, when rogue Japanese personnel tried to blow up a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway. Japan accused China of the attempted attack so they invaded and occupied Manchuria.

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Totalitarianism is a type of political system where the government has total control and regulates everything. Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler where big believers in this form of government.

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The allied powers blamed Germany for starting WWI. They also forced Germany to pay war reparations, reduce the size of their military, and give up some of its territory. The Treaty of Versailles is basically what is going to lead to WWII.