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End of World War 1
One of the most dramatic effects of the war was the expansion of governmental powers and responsibilities in Britain, France, the United States, and the Dominions of the British Empire. In order to harness all the power of their societies, new government ministries and powers were created. -
Hitler joins the Nazi Party
Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. -
Facist Party established under the Mussolini in Italy
Mussolini became the 40th Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began using the title Il Duce by 1925. -
Establishment of the USSR
Although the USSR was nominally a union of Soviet republics (of which there were 15 after 1956) with the capital in Moscow, it was in actuality a highly centralized state with a planned economy -
Mussolini takes over Italy
Mussolini became the 40th Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began using the title Il Duce by 1925. -
Death of Vladimir Lenin; control of USSR to Joseph Stalin; deaths of 8-13 million Russians
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. -
US and 61 other countries sign Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Japan invadesd China
China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany (see Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941)), the Soviet Union (1937–1940) and the United States (see American Volunteer Group). -
Japenese invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II. -
Hitler begins military buildup
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, establishing the Third Reich
He was appointed chancellor on January 30, 1933, and transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. -
Roosevelt takes office
Roosevelt launched major legislation and a profusion of executive orders that gave form to the New Deal—a complex, interlocking set of programs designed to produce relief (especially government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (of the economy), and reform (through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation). -
German troops invade Rhineland
Although the French government had been aware of Hitler’s plan to reoccupy the demilitarized Rhineland during the Spring of 1935, it took the French government nearly a year to decide how they would respond once Hitler decided to move German troops into the Rhineland. -
Italion troops conquer Ethiopia
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Hitler anounces secret plans for lebensraum
The first steps toward Lebensraum occurred in 1935 when Hitler openly violated the Treaty of Versailles by reintroducing military conscription and began rapidly rebuilding the German Army. -
US Begins passing nuetrality acts
The Neutrality Acts were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II -
Civil war begins in Spain under Francisco Franco
It began after a military rebellion by a group of conservative generals led by Francisco Franco against the established Government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of President Manuel Azaña. -
Czechoslovakia falls to Hitler
On March 16, 1939, the German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia and, from Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
Hitler takes Austria
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Munich Agreement; Sudetenland to Germany
Henlein met with Hitler in Berlin on March 28, 1938, where he was instructed to raise demands unacceptable to the Czechoslovak government led by president Edvard Beneš. -
Fraco is successful in Spain
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Totalitarian government established in the USSR
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Germany defeats Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg
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Non-agression pact; Germany and Russia; devided Poland
People would have been even more shocked if they had known at the time that, in addition, the two countries had made a number of a 'secret protocol' agreeing to 'spheres of influence' in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Poland. -
German invasion of Polan blitzkrieg
The invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and ended 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. -
Russian army into Finland
The Soviet forces had three times as many soldiers as the Finns, 30 times as many aircraft, and a hundred times as many tanks. -
Plans to invade Great Britain; Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces[25], and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
British and French defeat at Dunkirk
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German invasion of Denmark and Norway
Operation Weserübung was the code name for Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during the Second World War and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign. -
Italy enters war on Germany's sde
On 10 June 1940, as the French government fled to Bordeaux before the German invasion, declaring Paris an open city, Mussolini felt the conflict would soon end and declared war on Britain and France. -
France surrenders to Germany
For the Axis Powers, the campaign was a spectacular victory.
