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The Russian Revolution
In 1917 political leaders, soldiers, and factory workers forced Czar Nicholas II to give up the throne. Later that year, a political rebel named Vladimir Lenin led the Russian Revolution and seized control. He and his followers set up a communist state... Threatened at first by outside invasion, the Communists moved Russia's capital from coastal St. Petersburg to Moscow in the heart of the country. -
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Russian communist party,leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect and first head of the soviet state. -
Benito Mussolini
Italian politican, journalist and leader of the National Fascisr Party, ruling the country as prime Minister from 1922 untilhisousting in 1943. -
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. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Franklin Roosevelt
Was an American statesman and political leader who served as the president of the United States. -
Adolf Hitler
German political who was the leader of the Nazi party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945,and Fuhrer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
Germany moving troops into the Rhineland
Marking the first time since the end of WWI that German troops had been in this region. -
Neville Chamberlain
He was a British conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. -
Germany annexation of Austria
German troops march into Austria to annax the German, speaking nation for the third rich. -
The Munich Conference
It 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 invasion of Czechoslovakia
Nazi Germany invaded and occupied the Czech provinves of bohemia and Moravia inthe rump Czescho-Slovakstate, in fragrant violation of the Munich Pact. -
Joseph Stalin
Ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism. -
German invasion of Poland to start WWII
Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers,enabled Germany to attack poland without the fear of Soviet Intervention. -
Attack on Pearl Habor
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 United States entered the war because of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United States had a vested interest in the war in Europe; and had supplied ships to Britain through the Lend Lease Program as the British Navy was America's primary protection from attack in the Atlantic. The U.S. did not become involved in the war in Europe until Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. three days after the U.S. declared war on Japan. -
Winston Churchill
Was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again to 1951 to 1955.
