Lead up to World War 2- Luke Winters

By Luke.Winters.PCEP

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.

  • Mussolini

    Mussolini
    Established himself as dictator of Italy in 1924 and founded the ideology of Fascism.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin
    Established himself as the Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler
    Becomes Chancellor of Germany and and head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi Party.

  • Hitler

    Hitler
    Establishes himself as dictator assuming the title of "Fuhrer". Nazism shared many features of Fascism but also featured racism.

  • Invasion

    Invasion
    Italy invades Ethiopia in October 1935

  • Alliance

    Alliance
    Japan joined Germany in signing the Anti-Comintern Pact (an anti-communist pact) against the Soviet Union

  • Hitler's invasion

    Hitler's invasion
    Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany

  • Germany Invasion

    Germany Invasion
    Adolf Hitler ordered German troops to invade Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939. The Germans also took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. German forces invaded Poland from the west.

  • Start of the war

    Start of the war
    Britain and France respond to the invasion forces by declaring war on Germany September 3, 1939. The events leading up to WW2 had drawn to a conclusion. World War II had begun...