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Vladimir Lenin
Leader of the Bolshevik party, the spearhead of the revolution. -
The Russian Revolution
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. -
Joseph Stalin
He served as the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Leader of the Soviet Union. -
Benito Mussolini
An Iltalian dictator that rose to power as Prime Minister in 1922. He was leading propronent of Facism. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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. -
Adolf Hitler
Leader of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler rose to power over Germany. -
Germany moving troops into 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. -
Neville Chamberlain
Served as the England's Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940, best known as his policy of "appeasment." -
Germany claims the Sudentenland
German-dominated Austria-Hungary was dismembered and the Sudeten Germans found themselves living in the new country of Czechoslovakia. -
Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia
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. -
Germany annexation of Austria
In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. -
Winston Churchill
At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. -
The United States entrance into WWII
War against Japan, Germany and Italy starting with the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Pearl Harbor Attack
The japanese attack Pearl Harbor which was on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. -
German invasion of Poland to start WWII
German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident.The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland -
The Munich Conference (Appeasement)
The 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.
