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THE WW2
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Mussolini takes power in Italy
He became leader a of the government who established a dictatorship-government by a leader or group that holds unchallenged power and authority. Under this totaliarian regime ,he had total control over daily life in Italy. -
Stalin comes to power in Russia
He came to power in the mid 1920 attack like the facists, stalin violently crushed his political opponents -
The US stock market crashes
People started selling stocks. it had a huge affect on economy of the US and the world. The stock market crashes led to the conflicting between the countries on the world and it was one of the reason led to the WW2. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria in an attempt to get oil and supplies from them. -
FDR is elected president
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -
Hitler is named chacellor of Germany
He is made dictator Of Germany by president Hindenburg. -
The US passes the Neutrality Act
This law meant to prevent the nation from being drawn into war asit had been in 1917 -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Italy invades Ethiopia in an attempt to show Hitler that they are strong like him. -
Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland
Germany breaks the Treaty of Versailes by entering the Rhineland. -
Civil war erupts in Spain
The conflict of fierce political between Communists and Facists and Nationalists led to civil war. By 1939, however, Francos's Nationalists had defeated the Republicans. Spain came under the control of Fascist dictator. -
Anschluss
Hitler tried to force the Austrian government to agree to Anschluss- union with Germany -
Germany occupies the Sudetenland
Today in 1938, Nazi Germany formally took possession of the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia whose majority population was of German ancestery. This secession of territory came as a result of the Munich Agreement, a treaty signed by Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy. -
Kristallnatcht
Kristallnatcht is often referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass".The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops. -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
the Pact which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II; the Soviet Union was awarded land, including parts of Poland and the Baltic States. -
Germany invades Poland
This evebt marked the start of thw WW2. Hitler invades Poland after he signed an agreement with Stalin to help him surround Poland and the split it. -
The "Phony War"
was a early phase of the WW2 after Britain and France decalred war on Germany. The war was declared by each side, but no Western power had committed to launching a significant land offensive. -
The munich conference
Munich pact signed giving the Sudentenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany -
Churchill is elected prime minister of England
Winston Churchill served as Conservative Prime Minister twice, from 1940-45 and from 1951-55. Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War, before being defeated in a General Election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee in 1945. He returned for a second term as Prime Minister in 1951-55. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and haurbor of Dunkirk, France between 26 May and the early hours of 3 June 1940 although the British, french and Belgian troops were cut off by germany army. -
The battle of Britain
British victory in Battle of Britain forces Hitler to postpone invasion plans. The battle of Britain was the first majir campain to be fought entirely by air forces -
France surrender
French lost the battle on June 22nd, Marshell Petain signed an armistice for France which made French send 2 million soldiers to Germany to act as slaves. -
Japan seizes French Indo-China
Japan decided to strengthen its position in terms of its invasion of China by moving through Southeast Asia. Given that France had long occupied parts of the region, and Germany, a Japanese ally, now controlled most of France through Petain's puppet government, France "agreed" to the occupation of its Indo-China colonies. -
The Lend-Lease Act
The US started to lend to Great Britain weapons tofight Germany -
The Atlantic Charter
The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
the attack was in intended as a preventive reaction in order to keep the US Pacific fleets from interfering with military actions.
