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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. -
Joseph Stalin
-Communist Dictator of the Soviet Union
-Ordered gis people to produce more goods in order to strengthen the country in preparation for war.
-Executed people who opposed him
-many farmers who resisted to give up their land were sent to labor camps -
Benito Mussolini
Facist Leader of Italy
One Party rule, eliminated all other politcal parties
Gained power with the disapointment of the Treaty of Versailles
Anti-Communist
Created Totalitarian State -
Vladimir Lenin
- Russian communist revolutionary politician. -Served as the head of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socailist Repubic from 1917 to 1924.
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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Germany
Foremed his own brand of Fascism known as Nazism
Anti-Communist
Turned Germany to a Totalitarian State
Killed many people who disagreed with him or sent them to concentration camps (Jews, Catholics) -
Germany moving troops into the Rhineland
The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties, marking the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region. The remilitarization changed the balance of power in Europe from France towards Germany, and made it possible for Germany to pursue a policy of aggression in Easter -
Neville Chamberlain
-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
-British Conservtive Politician
-Best known for his appeasement policy
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Germany Annexation of Austria
On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, learning of the conspiracy, met with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the hopes of reasserting his country’s independence but was instead bullied into naming several top Austrian Nazis. -
The Munich Conference
Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it. When Hitler would not back down, and even extended his demands, Chamberlain decided to follow a policy of Appea -
Germany Invasion of Czechoslovakia
On this day, Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims. On September 30, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. -
Germany Claims Sudetenland
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
Germany of Poland to start WWII
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attcked the U.S. Air Force, Army, and the Navy in Oahu, Hawaii. -
United States Declared War on Japan
After Japan decided to attack Hawaii, The US got into WWII, President FDR requests, and recieves, a declaration of war against Japan. -
Winston Churcill
-prime minister of the UK from 1940- 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955
-An officer in the british army and a Historian Writer
- Won the nobel prize in Literature.
