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| c. 1931 |
| | | Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Mussolini uses a disagreement over grazing rights as a pretext for an empire-building invasion of Ethiopia | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Danish author Karen Blixen publishes her autobiographical novel Out of Africa | |
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| 1938 October |
| | | Adolf Hitler demands a strip of territory through the Polish corridor to reunite Germany with East Prussia | |
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| 1940 September 27 |
| | | Germany, Italy and Japan form a Tripartite Pact as a military alliance | |
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| 1942 July |
| | | Russia's new heavy industry is relocated to the east to escape the German advance | |
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| 1943 October |
| | | British admiral Louis Mountbatten is appointed to head the new Southeast Asia Command, with his headquarters in Delhi | |
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| 1945 August 8 |
| | | The USSR declares war on Japan, two days after an atom bomb has been dropped on Hiroshima | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Russia forms the Warsaw Treaty Organization (or Warsaw Pact) with her east European allies, as a counterbalance to NATO | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Philips and Sony jointly introduce a new device, the compact disc | |
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