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Treaty of Versailles
This treaty officially ended WW1 and held Germany accountable for all the destruction they caused. Hitler was able to convert this into hate and motivate his entire nation to stand up. -
Invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931. The invasion lasted 2 days. This is when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Nazi’s rise to power
Hitler was able to unite his country under himself. He became a political figure and chancellor of the country. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The League of Nations faced another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had modeled his action after Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories. This would be done by invasion. -
Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They allowed the U.S. to supply arms and resources to countries without getting directly involved. -
Rome-Berlin Axis Pact
Rome-Berlin Axis, Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano linked the two fascist countries. This would later include Japan into the Axis Powers. -
Anti-Comintern Pact
This was the pact that united Germany and Japan. Japan was recently enraged by the fact of the nonaggression between Germany and the USSR. Japan then renounced the Anti-Comintern Pact. -
Policy of Appeasement
Appeasement failed in terms of stopping Hitler. Appeasing the Third Reich was tempting to Chamberlain. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it. -
Non Aggression Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. German chancellor Hitler used the pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed. -
Germany invades Poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Blitzkrieg
Invented in Germany during World War 2, blitzkrieg is a military tactic meant to bring intense military combat for a swift and successful victory. -
Armistice
Hitler and Nazi Germany force France to sign the Armistice in the same place where Germany surrendered to the allies at the end of WWI. -
Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Saburō Kurusu and Galeazzo Ciano. -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the decided way for providing US military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes.
