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Pre- World War II
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Treaty of Versailles is Signed
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany. Its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. After strict enforcement for five years, the French wanted to modify important provisions. -
Mussolini Take's Power in Italy
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism. Mussolini allied himself with Hitler, relying on the German dictator to prop up his leadership during World War II, but he was killed shortly after the German surrender in Italy in 1945. -
The Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Bilions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression, the deepest and longest-lasting depression in the history of the industrialized world to that time. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
The Japanese controlled the Manchurian railway. They claimed that Chinses soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. The Japanese had conquered the whole of Machuria. Thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed. The League did not even stop arms sales, because they feared that this would make Japan declare war. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed as chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg. This meeting was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party, however it would have disastrous results for Germany and the entire European continent. In the year and seven months, Hitler was able to exploit the death of Hindenburg and combine the positions of chancellor and president into the position of Fuhrer, the supreme leader of Germany. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century. Which saved Ethiopia from Italian colonisation. Another attack was an incident during December 1934, between Italian and Abyssinian troops at the Wal-Wal Oasis on the border between Abyssinian Somaliland, where 200 soldiers lost their lives. -
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
When German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was crazy becauuse it voilated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Treaties, marking the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in the region. The militarized was hugely important as it changed the balance of power in Europe from France towards Germany. Made it possible for Germany to pursue a policy of aggression in Europe that the demilitarized status of the Rhineland and blocked until then. -
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War began as a revolt by the Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland. From the Canary Islands, General Francisco Franco broadcasts a message calling for all army officers to join the uprising and overthrow Spain’s Republican government. Within three days, the rebels captured Morocco, much of northern Spain, and several key cities in the south. The Republicans succeeded in putting down the uprising in other areas, including Madrid, Spain’s capital. -
Rome-Berlin Axis is Signed
The military and political alliance between fascist Germany and Italy, formalized by the Rome-Berlin Agreement. Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel, formalizing the Axis alliance with military provisions. Which became the Tripartite Pact Germany, Italy, and Japan, which became known as the Axis alliance. Even before the Tripartite Pact, two of the three Axis powers had said that they would become theaters of war in World War II. -
Anschluss
On this day, Adolf Hitler announces an “Anschluss” or a union between Germany and Austria, turning the smaller nation into a greater Germany. Despite the fact that Hitler did not have the full approval of Austrian Social Democrats. The rise of a pro-Nazi right wing party within Austria paved the way for Hitler to make this happen. But Hitler insisted on greater German influence on the internal affairs of Austria even placing German army troops. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference that the Sudentenland territory would be ceded to Germany. In addition, Hitler would take over portions of Czechoslovakia provided he would not look for further expansion. The Czechoslovakia government was told that it could challenge Hitler to war, but it would do so without any support. -
Germany invades Czechoslovakia
During a meeting with Czech President Emil Hacha–a man considered weak, and possibly even senile, Hitler threatened to bomb against Prague, the Czech capital, unless he obtained from Hacha free passage for German troops into Czech borders. He got it. German troops came into Bohemia and Moravia. The two provinces offered no resistance, and they were quickly made a protectorate of Germany. By evening, Hitler made a triumphant entry into Prague. -
The Soviet-Nazi Pact
The deal was broken when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union less than two years later. Adolf Hitler had become so bold that he tried to steal two separate territories at the same time. While he was focusing on taking Czechoslovakia, he was also pressuring Poland to give him the former German city of Danzig located on the Baltic Sea. And he wanted the Poles to permit construction of a new super highway and railroad stretching from Germany through Polish territory into Prussia. -
The Invasion Of Poland
This was the beinning of World War II. Adolf Hitler wanted to get back German territories because he lost lots in World War I. Hitler secured a agreement with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, Poland's eastern neighbour,that neither of them would attack each other. Then Hitler pounced. He sent his troops into Poland on September 1, 1939. Two days later, France and Britain, having guaranteed Poland's borders, declared war on Germany. On September 10, Canada went to war against Germany. -
Britain Declares War on Germany
It was no more than the dropping of anti-Nazi propaganda leaflets 13 tons of them over Germany. They would start bombing German ships, suffering significant losses. They were also working under orders not to harm German's. The German military, of course, had no such restrictions. France would begin on there offensive against Germany’s western border two weeks later. -
Canada Enters The War
World War II lasted six terrible years and left a legacy of death and destruction. It was truly a world war encircling the globe from the Atlantic to the Pacific and touching the far reaches of the Arctic. Nor was it confined to soldiers and battlefields, for new weapons of destruction made war possible on the land, in the air, and beneath the seas, and brought death and suffering indiscriminately to the young and the old, to their homes and their hearts.
