The Rise of Dictator

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.

Vladimir Lenin

Apr 22, 1870

Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. Founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, architect and first head of the Soviet state.

Winston Churchill

Nov 30, 1874

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

Joseph Stalin

Dec 18, 1878

The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jan 30, 1882

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), 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

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

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.

The Russian Revolution

Mar 8, 1917

In 1905, there was a disconnection between the working classes. Many people didn't have land ownership to be leaders of. V Lenin had termendous characteristics that he set; "Peace, Land, and Bread."

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Feb 27, 1932

The invasion of Manchuria began in September 18, 1931, when Kwantung Army of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately after the Mukden incident.

Germany moving troops into the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locardo Pact by sending German military force into Rhineland- demilitarized zone in West Germany.

Germany annexation of Austria

Mar 12, 1938

Hitler accompanied German troops marched into Austria to annex the German-speaking nations for the third Reich.

The Munich Conference (Apeasement)

Sep 30, 1938

The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations; Hitler had demands for Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia and Chamberlain try to talk him out of it.

Germany claims the Sudetenland

Oct 10, 1938

Germany formally took possession of the Sudetenland
(part of Czechoslovakia) whose majority population was of German ancestery.

Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia- a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims. September 30, 1938, Hitler, Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and Chamberlain (British Prime Minister) signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace.

German invasion of Poland to start WWII

Sep 1, 1939

As a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances: The Allies and The Axis. It directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries- "total war".

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Japan attacked Hawaii, Oahu (not yet a state). The U.S. supplied fuel and oil, then stopped for a year so the Japanese attcked.