[Game] Count to 10,000

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1936: Prince Albert, Duke of York, becomes King, reigning as King George VI.

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1937 In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum).

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1938: Kristallnacht: In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi activists and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair sees 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested).

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1939 Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI as the 260th pope. Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss, the codename for the invasion of Poland.

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1940: The Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland near the town of Oświęcim. Between May 1940 and January 1945, around 1.1 million people will be killed here.

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1941 The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack is announced on radio stations in the US at about 2:26 p.m. EST (19.26 GMT). President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Infamy" Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17.30 GMT) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes. Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

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1942: The Nazi German extermination camp Treblinka II opens in occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka. Between July 23, 1942 and October 1943, around 850,000 people are killed there, more than 800,000 of whom are Jews.

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1943 In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.

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1944: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg.

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1945 Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as the Red Army approaches the Führerbunker in Berlin. Karl Dönitz succeeds Hitler as President of Germany; Joseph Goebbels succeeds Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Atomic bomb. V-E Day and V-J Day.

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1946: Nazi War criminals convicted in the Nuremberg Trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises.

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1947 Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.

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1948 Arab-Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq invade Israel and clash with Israeli forces.

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1949 U.S. Harry S. Truman announced that the USSR had the atomic bomb

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1950: World Population: 2,500,000,000