Lead up to WW2- Darius Robinson

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    Following WW1 the 1919 Treaty of Versailles set out the terms for Germany's punishment which caused anger in Germany.
  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini
    Benito Mussolini established himself as dictator of Italy in 1924 and founded the ideology of fascism.
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    The effects of the great economic crisis of the Great Depression is felt around the world. Anti-democratic countries form Totalitarianism governments that assert absolute and total control over the public and private lives of people and begin to adopt policies of expansion and aggression led by dictators.
  • Adolf Hitler

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

    FDR President
    FDR becomes President of the US and implements the beginning of the New Deal with the Hundred Days.
  • Neutrality Acts

    Neutrality Acts
    US Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts designed to avoid American involvement in foreign nations.
  • Spanish Civil War

    Spanish Civil War
    General Francisco Franco overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War
  • Hitler Take Over

    Hitler Take Over
    Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany
  • Appeasement

    Appeasement
    In September 1938 France and Britain enact a policy of appeasement, agreeing to the German annexation of Czechoslovakia
  • The Begging of WW2

    The Begging of WW2
    The Night of the Broken Glass occurs in which Nazis violently attack Jews and destroy Jewish property