The Rise of Dictators an WWII events

The 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.

Vladimir Lenin

Jan 22, 1924

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Feb 27, 1932

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.

Germany moving troops into the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

Germany annexation of Austria

Mar 12, 1938

was the Nazi propaganda term for the invasion and incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938.

Germany Claims the Sudentenland

Jun 30, 1938

refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia.

The Munich Conference(Appeasement)

Sep 30, 1938

the agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe, excluding the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.

Germany Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

The German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement.

German invasion of Poland to Start WWII

Sep 1, 1939

German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident. As the Wehrmacht advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east.

Neville Chamberlain

Mar 18, 1940

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

The United States Entrance into WWII

Jun 11, 1940

The United Entered the war after they were Attacked by the Japanese Air Planes in Pearl Harbor.

The Bombing Of 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 at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

Franklin Roosevelt

Apr 12, 1945

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

Bennito Mussolini

Apr 28, 1945

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 30, 1945

Wapolitician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Joseph Stallin

Mar 5, 1953

Joseph Stalin rose to power as General Secretary of the communist Party.

Winston Churchill

Jan 24, 1965

British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.