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Maginot Line
The Maginot Line was built in 1930, but was not put to use intill 1935. The French built the Maginot line to stop the direct attack from thr Germans on the neutral Belgiums. The line had concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses. It was between Italy and Belgium. The line was ineffective though, the German's invaded and flanked Belgium. Some say that the line was easy to get around because it ended right at Belgiums boarder. -
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
In 1931, the Japanese Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria. It was know as the Manchurian Incident. This was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province. They gained control of it. The reason they wanted the whole provience was so they could use the railways. -
Burning of the Reichstag
The Reichstag was the German Parliment building that was caught on fire by Hitler and the Nazi party. Hitler blammed the fire on the communist and insisted that power would be under his control. This outcome was the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. -
First Concentration Camp
The first concentration camp was shortly built after Hitler's appointment of chancellor. The first camp was made in Oranienburg which is north of Berlin. The Nazi part arrested millions of jews and sent to these camps. They were treated awfull intill they were shot or killed by poisionious gas. -
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was an attempt by spanish army generals to overthrow the government of the Second Spanish Republic. The Generals were nationalist. The working class backed up the republican government, but was taken down by the army. The Republican government was noe under a dictatorship run by Francisco Franco. -
Quarantine Speech
F.D.R gave the Quarantine Speech on October 5, 1937 in Chicago. He called for an internatioal "quarantine" of the aggressor nations. This ment he put a stop to other countries spending money in the U.S so that the other countries could not expand anymore. It was an act that was not forced through the army. -
The Anschluss
On March 12, 1938 Austria was annexed by the Germans. This was breaking the Treaty of Versailles and its terms. This was one of the first major steps in Hitlers long desire for an Empire he could control. He wanted countrys that spoke German and people who followed his Nazi party. No one was stopping this mad man. -
Munich Conference
Russia, Germany, Britian, France, and Italy met in Munich to decide what action if any to take concerning Germany's agression in Czechoslovakia. The allies decided to eneact a policy of appeasment, where Germany would be alloud to erase the boundaries of The Versailles Treaty without taking millitary action. They also agreed that the soverignty of Poland would be protected. -
The Non-Aggression Pact
On August 23, 1939 a week before the begining of WWII Ribbentrop and Moloton signed the Nazi Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. This pact was to keep Germany and the Soviet Union from attacking one another. The pact was sappost to last for ten years, it lasted less than two. The pact said if Germany attacked Poland, Fance, or Great Britain the Soviets could not help. -
The Start of WWII
The begining of the war was on September 1, 1939 when the Germans marched into Poland invading the land. After Nazi Germany had taken over Poland many other countrys such as British Empire and France, declared war on the Germans. Many other countrys had already been in war for some time -
The Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the air war waged by the German Air fource against the United Kingdom. It began on July 10, 1940 and countined for months. The objective of this was to gain air privilege. The Germans faired to destroy Britains aire defences. If Germany had won Hitler would have had more more areas to control and he would have gone farther than what he had gone. -
Pearl Harbor
The morning of December 7, 1941 the U.S Naval base, Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was air raded by the Japanese. Two strikes of steady bombs left the base in ruins. The main cause of the attacks was the U.S had an embargo with Japan on scrap metal and oil they were upset. The raids destroyed ships, 188 aircrafts, many killed, and 1,282 wounded, This led the U.S into WWII. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an attack on the axis by the allies in North Africa. Although the Americans wanted to land in Europe, the British wanted to raid Africa first to clear the axis out of Africa and take naval control of the Mediterranean Sea. It would also prepare the allies for the invasion of Southern Europe -
D-Day
D-Day was when the allies reached and stormed the beaches of Normandy. The night before the attack the allies flew paratroopers in to be behind German troops while they watched the amphibious attack pf the allies. They both worked their way in on the Germans. This was the biggest amphibious attack in history. The allies also had fake attacks planned named "Operation Glimmer" and "Operation Taxable" so the axies thought attacks were going to happen in a different location. -
Death of Hitler
Hitler committed suicide on April 30th. He took a dose of cyanide and shot himself in the head. He had a nervous breakdown admitting the allies were getting closer and the axis was looking at defeat. He asked his physician Werner Haase a reliable method of suicide. Eight days later, he did it. The death of Hitler gave the Nazi party little hope and they were defeated by the allies.
