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The 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. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The even where the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria -
Germany troops moving into the Rhineland
One of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles was that the Germans would not be able to keep military forces in a 50km stretch of the Rhineland. Hitler resented this term as it made Germany vulnerable to invasion. -
Germany annexation of Austria
Germany seize the Austrian goverment and force Germany and austria together. -
The Munich Conference
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 claim the Sudetenland
Hitler claim the German ethnic part of Czechoslavika as an aggreement of appeasement. -
Germany invasion of Czechoslavkia
Hitler annexed most of Czechoslavkia in preparation of an invasion of the rest of the land. -
German invasion of Poland to start WWII
Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
The United States entrance into WWII
The Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. The Japanese attack led to the US declaring war on Japan.