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Mussolini take power in Italy
Mussolini or "Il Duce" took power in Italy at this time and this is one of the key events to make WWII happen. -
Stock Market Crashes
Known as "Black Teusday", this is the day where the stock market crashes and the beginning of the Depression. -
Japan Seizes Manchuria
Invaded by the Kwantung Army, established a puppet state called Manchukoku which lasted till the end of the war -
FDR is elected president
This is the first time, of the four terms FDR served, where he became president of the US. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
This is the date when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. -
Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles
He did this because he watned to make Germany great again. -
U.S. Neutrality Act
This allowed the U.S. to supply both sides of a war with war goods not taking any sides. -
Italy invade Ethiopia
This is when Italy invaded Ethiopia, this is the second time in history that these two nations have fought each other in a war. -
France Militarizes the Rhineland
German troops entered the Rhineland which was important because this made Germany defy the Locarno Treaties -
Civil War erupts in Spain
Broke out with a military uprising in Morocco, which was triggered by events in Madrid. It wsa divided into Republicans or Loyalists -
Japan invades China
This started the second Sino-Japanese War, the Kwantung Army turned a small scale attack into a full on war. -
Anschluss
Occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. -
Munich Conference
An agreement that permitted the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. -
Kristallnacht
Known as "Night of Broken Glass" this is when German Officers targeted Jewish owned stores and broke their windows which made the streets covered in glass -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
This was the peace agreement that no one would attack eachother, but the Soviet soons learned that Hitler cannot be trusted. -
Germany invades Poland
Could also be referred as Semptember Campaign or 1939 Defensive War, but this is when Hitler takes his army and ivades Poland. -
Churchill is Elected Prime Minister in England
This is when Winston Churchill becomes prime minister in England. -
Phony War
This is the time before the actual war started and there was no fighting and it was all silent. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
Also known as the Dunkirk Evacuation or Operation Dynamo, but this is when the British evacuated Allied soldiers off the beaches of Dunkirk. -
France Surrenders
This is when France has just had enough when Germany invades France and they just surrender their country to them. -
Battle of Britain
This is when the German Air Force attacked Britain in the summer of 1940. -
Japan seizes French Indo-China
Also known as the Vietnam Expedition, it was to prevent China from importing arms and fuels through French Indonesia. -
Lend-Lease Act
This is where the U.S. decided to lend our allies only with war goods between 1941 and 1945. -
Atlantic Charter
A policy statement by Winston Churchill stating what the Allied Nations want after the war. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This is when Japan surprised the U.S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and attacked them, which also triggered the U.S. to enter the war.
