Rise of dictators and WWII events

Neville Chamberlain

Mar 18, 1869

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

Winston Churchill

Nov 30, 1874

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jan 30, 1882

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States 1933-1945

Benito Mussolini

Jul 29, 1883

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 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 Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Revolution Of 1905

Jan 22, 1905

The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire

March Revoulution

Mar 8, 1917

Russia’s February Revolution (so named because of the Julian calendar that Russians still used at the time) began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg

Russian Revolution

Mar 8, 1917

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.

Lenin Exiled

Apr 16, 1917

Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution.

German Troops in Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

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.

Munich Agreement

Mar 29, 1938

he 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.

Annex Of Austria

Mar 12, 1939

On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.

Czechoslovakia Invaded

Mar 15, 1939

German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia was the end of appeasement.

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades polandl, which was the start f WW2

German Troops in Czechoslovakia

Sep 1, 1939

On September 1, 1939 German troops swarmed across the Polish border and unleashed the first Blitzkrieg the world had seen. Hitler had been planning his attack since March - ever since German troops occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia.

Japan seizes Manchuria

Sep 18, 1939

Japan seizes Manchuria , for its vauleable coal and iron.

Manich Agreement

Sep 29, 1939

Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement.

France Surrender

Jun 22, 1940

Germany started their advances in the Navy and only took weeks to control France.

Germany Starts War On England

Jul 10, 1940

German Luffwaffe begin their as the sult on England, with more than twice 600 aircrafts available to the RAF.

Attack On Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base.

Results Of The Attack On Peral Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

America's isolation from war ended on December 7, 1941, when Japan staged a surprise attack on American military installations in the Pacific. The most devastating strike came at Pearl Harbor, the Hawaiian naval base where much of the US Pacific Fleet was moored. In a two-hour attack, Japanese warplanes sank or damaged 18 warships and destroyed 164 aircraft. Over 2,400 servicemen and civilians lost their lives.

Operation Overlord

Jun 16, 1944

The allies launch an all out attack on the beaches on Normandy

Operation Sea Lion

Sep 17, 1974

Nazi Germany's code name for a provisionally proposed invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.