Rise of Dictators and WWII Events

Neville Chamberlain

Mar 18, 1869

Neville was a British Conservative politian who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.

Vladimir Lenin

Apr 22, 1870

Vladimir was the Founder of Russian Communist Party. Leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

Winston Churchill

Nov 30, 1874

Winston was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955

Joesph Stalin

Dec 18, 1878

Joesph Stalin ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Joesph was the dictator of the Union of Soviet socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953.

Franklin Roosevelt

Jan 30, 1882

Franklin was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945

Benito Mussolini

Jul 29, 1883

Benito was an Italian politcian and journalist. Benito Mussolini was leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943

Adolf Hitler

Apr 20, 1889

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Fuhrer of Nazi Germanyvfrom 1934 to 1945

The Russian Revolution

Mar 8, 1917

The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismatled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual ride of the Soviet Union.

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Sep 18, 1931

Japan had invaded Manchuria without declaration of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations

Germany moving troops into the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

German troops marched into the Rhineland. This action was directly against the Treaty of Versailles which had laid out the terms which the defeated Germany had accepted.

Germany annextion of Austria

Mar 12, 1938

German troops march into Austria to annex the German speaking nation for the Third Reich.

The Munich Conference

Sep 27, 1938

Hitler met with representatives of the heads of state from France/ the United Kingdom/ and Italy. An agreement (called Apeasement) was reached that Hitler could invade the Sudentenland provided he promised not to invade anywhere else.

Germany claims the Sudetenland

Oct 10, 1938

Germany claimed the Sudetenland. Nazi marched into Sudentenland and claimed the land.

Germany invasion of Czecholovakia

Mar 15, 1939

Hitler threatened a bombing raid against Prague,the Czech capital, unless he obtained from Hacha free passage for German troops into Czech borders.

German invasion of Poland

Sep 1, 1939

The start of World War II. Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.

The bombing of Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Japan's planned attack on Pearl Harbor. That supposely woke the sleeping giant America.

The United States entrance into WWII

Dec 8, 1941

United States entered World War II, a day after Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.