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Pacific War
Five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, using a piece of Japanese pipe as a mast, February 23, 1945. Three of the flag raisers were later killed as the fighting raged on. By March 16, when Iwo Jima was declared secured, 6,821 Americans and 21,000 Japanese (the entire force) had died. The flag raising photo and subsequent statue came to symbolize being a Marine. -
World War I ends with German defeat
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League of Nations founded.
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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
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Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.
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Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.
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Germany admitted to League of Nations.
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Memorandum by the State Secretary in the German Foreign Office (Weizsäcker):
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Rationing begins in Britain.
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
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Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
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France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.
