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| Nov 11, 1918 - World War One ends with German defeat. | Sept 14, 1930 - Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany. | Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. | May 10, 1940 - Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. | June 22, 1941 - Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins. | Dec 5, 1941 - German attack on Moscow is abandoned. | Dec 7, 1941 - Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor | Dec 8, 1941 - States and Britain declare war on Japan. | Dec 11, 1941 - Germany declares war on the United States. | Feb 2, 1943 - Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. | May 13, 1943 - German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa | July 9/10, 1943 - Allies land in Sicily. | June 6, 1944 - D-Day landings. | Oct 11, 1944 - U.S. air raids against Okinawa. | Dec 16-27, 1944 - Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes. | April 30, 1945 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide. | May 2, 1945 - German troops in Italy surrender. | Aug 6, 1945 - First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 flown by Col. Paul Tibbets. | Aug 9, 1945 - Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan. | Sept 2, 1945 - Formal Japanese surrender ceremony on board the MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay as 1000 carrier-based planes fly overhead; President Truman declares VJ Day. |
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| Sept 14, 1930 - Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany. |
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In Hilers Speeches he Offered the Germans what they needed most, encoragement. He gave them vague promises and avoided the details. He began his speeches soft, gradually raising the voloume and pitch of his voice. Then exploding the climax of his speach
All of the Nazis worked To pound their message into the minds of Germans. On election day september 14, 1930, the Nazes Received 6,371,000 votes, over eighteen percent of the total, and were entitled to 07 seats in the German Reichstag. It was a stunning victory for Hitler. The nazi party went from the smallest to second largest party in Germany.
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