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Alabama "Time-Convoy'
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The Depression Begins
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Roosevelt becomes president New Deal begins
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War begins in Europe
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005137</a>The Holocaust took place in the broader context of World War II. Still reeling from Germany's defeat in World War I, Hitler's government envisioned a vast, new empire of "living space" (Lebensraum) in eastern Europe. The realization of German dominance in Europe, its leaders calculated, would require war.
1939
After securing the neutrality of the Soviet Union (through the August 1939 German-Soviet Pact of nonaggression), Germany started World War II by invading Poland on September 1, 1939. Brit -
Bankhead Tunnel is begunand construction begins on Liberty Ships.
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Bankhead Tunnel is completed.
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Pearl Harbor is attaked U.S. enters World War II
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Germany Surrenders
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Japan surrenders after two atomic bombs are dropped.
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World War II is over!
