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World War 1
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Triple Entente (Russia, France, Britian)
Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungry, Italy) World War I was an extremely bloody war that engulfed Europe from 1914 to 1919, with huge losses of life and little ground lost or won. Fought mostly by soldiers in trenches, World War I saw an estimated 10 million military deaths and another 20 million wounded. -
The Treaty of Versailles is Signed
The Treaty of Versailles gets signed by the big four at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Stock Market Crash
On the 24th was when the market fell %11,but theactual lowest marketfrop was on the 29th. During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August 1929 then, production had already declined and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value. -
Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany. Hitler's first step toward dictatorship. -
Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany
Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented consolidation of power in the short history of the republic. -
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Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht is also called Night of Broken Glass or November Pogroms, this event was when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. In two days and nights, more than 1,000 synagogues were burned or otherwise damaged. Rioters ransacked and looted about 7,500 Jewish businesses, killed at least 91 Jews, and vandalized Jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and cemeteries. -
Hitler invades Poland
At around 4:45 a.m, roughly 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. At the same time, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
In response to Hitler's invasion to the countries of Poland, Britain and France, both allies go into war against Germany to try to stop Hitler from dictating all of europe.
