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1920 to 1950
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Leader of spain francisco franco
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Mussolini rises to power and changes italy
Facist party wins 35 seats in the italian Parliment.
Mussolini eventually turns italy into a totalitarian state. -
Soviet Union is established
Communist State the Soviet Union is created after civil war in Russia -
Stalin rises to power
V.I.Lenin dies and leaves Joseph Stalin to take control of the Soviet Union -
Hitler Writes Mein Kampf
Austria Born Adolf Hitler lays out basic beliefs of Nazism( a type of fascism) in Mein Kampf -
Kellog Briand Pact is Signed
United states and 61 other countries sign the Kellog Briand Pact in which they pledged to never make war again, but this agreement still permitted defensive war. -
Hitler is Appointed Chancellor
Adolf Hitler a Forceful leader and extreme racist gains power. Hitler tears down the Weimar Republic and establishes the Third Reich. -
Hitler begins persecution of the Jews
Hitler orders all non-aryans to be removed from government jobs. -
President Roosevelt is elected
FDR is elected and begins working to pull the united states out of the Depression with the New Deal -
Congress passes Neutrality Acts
Neutrality acts outlaw arms sales to nations at war.
Also outlaws arms sales to nations in civil war. -
Mussolini takes Ethiopia
Mussolini begans building his new roman empire by building up thousands of troops to take ethiopia. By June 1936 Ethiopia had fallen to italy. -
Nuremberg Laws
Jews trying to leave Germany are stripped of civil rights and property. Jews over the age of 6 wore a bright yellow star of david on their clothing. -
Hitler Builds up his forces
Hitler builds up troops in violation of the Versailles Treaty and a year later sends troops to the rhineland. Also Signs the Rome-Berlin Axis Pact with Italy establishing an alliance between the two nations. -
FDR gives Quarantiine Speech
Roosevelt Speaks out Strongly against Isolationism in a speech givin in Chicago, but is hushed by the nations intent to stay out of the war. -
German Troops Take Austria
In March German troops march into austria unopposed and force Schuscnigg to Resign and announce their union's completion two days later. -
Neville Chamberlain
Prime minister of Britain til 1940 Neville Signed the Munich Pact. He returns to britain and proclaims, "there has come back from Germany peace with honor. I believe it is peace in our time." -
Munich Pact is Signed
Edourard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain meet with hitler and sign the Munich pact that turned over Sudetenland to Germany peacefully. -
Kristallnacht
Gangs of Nazi storm troopers attack Jewish properties on a night they called Kristallnacht. After the destruction in Germany this night the jews were blamed for all damages and 20,000 were sent to concentration camps. -
The Holocaust
Starting with Kristallnacht. More then 20,000 jews are sent to concentration camps. Other types of people like Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally retarded were sent to camps as well. All types of people were eventually "accorded a mercy death" In poland Nazi murder squads are created to round up jews, strip them of their clothing and posssesions, and execute them.
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Concentration Camps
Thousand upon Thousands of Jews are sent to work camps.
In concentration camps people were worked from dawn to dusk and given next to nothing to eat. Living quarters were the equivelent of pig pens. Doctors made lists of the 30-40 weakest prisoners every day.
They were selected and then taking to a nearby grave on shot on their lunch break. More people were sent to the camps each day by the hundreds they arrived, and by the thousands they died -
Nonaggression Pact is signed
Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonarggression pact in august agreeing not to fight eachother. -
The Blitzkrieg
Germany attacks Poland with war planes and tank using their newest strategy The Blitzkrieg or "lightning war" that allowed them to take poland in three weeks. -
FDR revises neutrality acts
Cash and carry is put into effect permitting nations to buy American arms.
Selling weapons to France and Britain was supposed to help keep th united states out the war. -
Soviets invade Finland
Stalin sends his soviet army to Finland. 3 months of winter fighting later outnumbered fins surrendered. -
Elections of 1940
President Roosevelt assures the nation while running for re election that the united states will not go to war, "except in the case of an attack" -
Hitler takes Denmark and Norway
Germany launches a suprise invasion of Denmark and Norway. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister
Rival for leadership of Great Britain, Winston Churchill finally becomes prime minister and disagrees with "apeasement" -
Germany invades Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg
The Blitzkrieg is turned against three more countries that were all taken by the end of may. This ended the worlds idea that this was a "phony war" -
The fall of France
Tactically manuevering around the french troops Germans cut off allied forces in the north Italy enters the war a few days later and invades france from the south. Four days later France Surrenders. -
The Axis Powers
In september Germany, Japan, and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact and became known as the Axis Powers -
The battle of Britain
Hitler attacks britain with both sea and air. For two
months britain is bombed by the germans. Hitler calls off the invasion 2 days later after the Royal Air Force destroys 56 German planes while losing only 26 themselves -
Lend-lease
IN Late 1940 FDR proposes the Lend-Lease plan that allows the united states to sell or lease arms and supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the protection of the united states. It is later passed in 1941 -
A. Philip Randolph
Philip Randolp organizes a march on washington to protest discrimination in both the military and in industry. -
Atlantic Charter
FDR and Churchill meet on a warship in the atlantic where they made a declaration of principles describing the united states and britains pledges to seek no territorial gain, seek no change in the chosen government of the people, work on disarment of aggressors etc. -
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister in Japan, and plans for war with the united states -
Pearl Harbor
180 japanese warplanes attack the U.S. naval base at pearl Harbor killing some 2400 people and crippling the united states pacific fleet while only losing 29 planes themselves. The United States Declares War on Japan the very next day. -
War Plans
Churchill and FDR spend 3 weeks at the white house working on war plans. Germany's defeat is made to be the top priority of the allied forces. -
Selective Service and the GI
GI stands for Goverment Issue and became a adjective to describe soldiers. The Selective Service system expanded the draft and provided 10 million more soldiers to meet the armed forces needs. -
Industrial Response
Last Car is made in Factories, The Same factories are then retooled to produce tanks planes boats and other war machines. Full Ships were assembled in as little time as 4 days. -
The Battle of the Atlantic
After the attack on Pearl Harbor Hitler ordered submarine raids along the east coast of the united states. Radar is introduced to U.S. destroyers and planes to help find attacking submarines and destroy them, -
Internment of the Japanese
FDR signs an order requiring the removal of people of Japanese Ancestry from California Washington, Oregon, and Arizona 110,000 Japanese Americans are rounded up and sent to internment camps in the following weeks -
Douglas Macarthur
In the Philippines 80,000 american and philippino troops held out against 200,000 invading Japanese troops for four months. The US is forced out of the Philippines only to retaliate in April when they bomb Tokyo and other cities. -
WAAC
Womens Auxiliary Army Corps is formed in early 1942 Some 250,000 women serve in this and other auxiliary branches during WW2 -
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The U.S. fights back and stops a Japanese force from moving on to australia. -
The Battle of Midway
Nimitz orders an attack on the last assemblage of naval power in history and does such damage that at Midway the Japanese believed the Americans avenged pearl Harbor -
Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands is stormed by 19,000 marines and taken after six months of warfare. -
The North African Front
107,000 Allied troops`mostly americans , land in Casablanca Oran and Algiers, the north african german troops were the Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel, they surrendered in May -
The Italian Campaign
The King Victor Emmanuel III stripped Mussolini of power after allied troops invade and take sicily.
Hitler Responds by seizing control of Italy, and reinstalling Mussolini as its leader. After 18 months of fighting italy is retaken -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Germans attack an important industrial center on the volga river and burn every wooden building. In November the Russians launch their counterattacks and eventually force the Germans to surrender on febuary 2 1943. The Russians defense of Stalingrad cost them the lives of 1,250,000 soldiers and civilians. This number is more than all american casualties during the entire war. -
D-day
Allies attack at with land sea and air creating the largest operation including all three in history. Withing a month the allies land a million troops and 170,000 vehicles in France. August 25 marks the date that these troops liberated the French capital -
The Battle for Leyte Gulf
Kamikaze suicide planes crash bomb laden planes into Allied Ships .
The Americans ratake the Philippines and cause heavy damage to the imperial Navy -
The Battle of Iwo Jima
20,700 japanese troops defend iwo jima
6,000 marines die while taking it but leave only 200 Japanese troops alive. -
The Battle of the Bulge
Eight German Tank Divisions break through weak american defense along an 80-mile front. Americans troops led by Brigadier General Anthony Mcauliffe made a stand at Bastogne. McAuliffe replies "nuts" to German surrender demand. The germans are pushed back after a month.
After this fight the german forces are so crippled that they can do little but retreat afterwards. -
Yalta Conference
Churhill Rossevelt and Stalin agree to create the United Nations
based on the principles of the atlantic charter. -
Harry truman Becomes President
FDR has a stroke and dies leaving Harry S. Truman as the nations president. -
Mussolini is Executed
Found in the back of a Nazi truck, Disguised as a German Soldier Mussolini is Shot and his body is hung in a Milan Square. -
Undonditional Surrender/V-E day
The Soviet Army stormed Berlin .
Hitler marrys Eva Braun his longtime companion. Writes out last adress to the German people, blaming the jews for the war and his generals for losing it. Hitler and his wife commit suicide. Germany surrenders a week later. V-E day (vitory in europe day) is celebrated. -
Potsdam
Truman meets with Churchill in Defeated Germany to discuss the disarment of germany and the punishments for war crimes. -
Manhatten Project
Truman orders the bombs made in the Manhatten Project to make plans fro dropping two atomic bombs on Nagsaki and Hiroshima -
Hiroshima
Enola Gay releases the atomic Bomb over Hiroshima. Destroying almost every building in the city . Japan Refused to Surrender. -
Nagasaki
The second bomb is dropped 3 days after the first over Nagasaki leveling half the city and killing 200,000 people. -
Nuremberg War Trials
Hitlers Officials and other Nazi Leaders are given war trials 10 are sentenced to death and the other 12 are sent to jail.
On top of this almost 200 more lesser nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes.
