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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf (English: My Struggle) is a book written by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology. -
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Stock Market Crash
On what is known as Black Tuesday the Dow Jones dropped 12.8%and continued to drop until it finally bottomed out in July 1932 after dropping 89% -
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The Great Depression
A world wide economic depression which led to massive job loss and extreme poverty. This set the stage to World War II as desperate people began turning towards leaders like Hitler. -
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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria was a military incursion in 1931. Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukoku, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Hitler Comes to Power
Hitler became chancellor in January 1933 as conservatives felt he would be easy to control. Hitler had gained support during the Great Depression. -
Enabling Act
It was the second major step, after the Reichstag Fire Decree, through which Chancellor Adolf Hitler legally obtained plenary powers and established his dictatorship -
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The Ethiopian War
The Second Italo–Abyssinian War (also referred to as the Second Italo-Ethiopian War) was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire (also known as Abyssinia). The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa . -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws or Nürnberg Laws of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. Nazism became an official ideology incorporating scientific racism and antisemitism. There was a rapid growth in German legislation directed at Jews. -
Remiliarization of the Rhineland
Under the Treaty of Versailles Germany was "forbidden to maintain or construct any fortification either on the Left bank of the Rhine or on the Right bank to the west of a line drawn fifty kilometers to the East of the Rhine". If a violation "in any manner whatsoever" of this Article took place, this "shall be regarded as committing a hostile act...and as calculated to disturb the peace of the world" However on March 7, 1936 German forces entered Rhineland -
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Japanese Expansion
Japan began taking areas in surrounding islands in the pacific and invading into the mainland of Asia. They took lands in Korea, Thailand, and USSR. -
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"Rape of Nanjing"
a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period, up to hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soliders of the Imperial Japanese Army. -
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Spanish Civil War (Mussolini and Hitler)
A civil war between the facists and the Republicans. Although the campaign was militarily successful at first, it was fatally undermined by the Franco-British appeasement of Adolf Hitler in the Munich Agreement. The concession of Czechoslovakia destroyed the last vestiges of Republican morale by ending all hope of an anti-fascist alliance with the great powers. The Republicans were eventually defeated and withdrew in November 1938, another significant step towards Franco's final victory. -
Anschluss
Was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Germany. The Anschluss was Hitler's first major step towards an empire including the German-Speaking lands lost during World War I -
Munich Conference
The Munich Pact was created which was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. -
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Appeasement
The strategy of preventing a war by making concessions for legitimate grievances. This strategy was used by Chamberlain to try to obtain peace by saying they didn't oppose to Germany's claim to the Sudetenland. Also this was used by Germany and the USSR in the Nazi-Soviet Pact where they both agreed to remain neutral if the other one goes to war.