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Coming of WW2 (372-378)
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03/29/2017

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Benito Mussolini
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Organized the Fascist Party (Blackshirts)
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Reichstag
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Germany's chief legislative body
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General Hideki Tojo
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Led the militarists in Japan
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Emperor Hirohito
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The official head of the Japanese government whose power was made illegitimate
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Manchuria
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Japan started the wave of aggression by invading this city and seizing it
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Led the Nationalist Chinese government
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Mao Tse-tung
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Led the Chinese Communists
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General Claire Chennault and the Flying Tigers
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Led a group of three volunteer squadrons of American airmen who flew missions against the Japanese
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General Francisco Franco
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Fought to keep Spain from falling into the hands of Communists
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The Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Anschluss
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The forced union of Germany and Austria
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Munich Pact
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Dismembered Czechoslovakia by giving Sudetenland to Germany
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Included a secret agreement between Germany and the Soviets to divide Poland between them
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September 3, 1939
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World War 2 had begun
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