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Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Mussolini Rose to the top by getting the support of most the italians and leading a coup. After wards he abolished all political parties and had the secret police enforce all his laws. This made it almost impossible for anyone Benito did not approve of get power in Italy. -
Stalin rises to power in the soviet union
Stalin used the job of General Secretary to promote people loyal to him, to remove from the party people who were disloyal and to collect information on every party member. Once he was the undisputed leader - the Vozhd (meaning Boss) he continued to use the position of General Secretary of the Communist Part to promote loyal supporters and demote, or expel from the party those who he could not be sure about -
The St. Louis
The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner most notable for a single voyage in 1929, in which her captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba, the United States and Canada, until finally accepted to various countries of Europe. Historians have estimated that, after their return to Europe, approximately a quarter of the ship's passengers died in concentration camps. -
Hitler Comes into Power
January 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
In 1932, Hitler ran against von Hindenburg in the presidential elections. The viability of his candidacy was underscored by a 27 January 1932 speech to the Industry Club in Düsseldorf, which won him support from many of Germany's most powerful industrialists. He becomes head of the nazi party and is very influential. -
The Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. The enactment of laws identifying who was Jewish made it easier for the Nazis to enforce legislation restricting the basic rights of German Jews. -
Kristallnacht
A series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany, led by Hitler, invade poland -
British Prime Minister, Chamberlain, resigns, replaced by Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister, Chamberlain, resigns, replaced by Winston Churchill -
The Tripartite Pact
A pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Lend Lease Act
Was the law that started a program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945 -
Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister of Japan
Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister of Japan -
Japanese attack on Pearl harbour
A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 -
US Declaration Of War
In fact the US was at war on December 7, 1941 at about 7:55 AM when the Japanese attacked Peal Harbour -
The Final Solution
The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to annihilate the Jewish people, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. -
Japanese Americans internment in isolated camps
"War Relocation Camps" of about 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the interment in 1942, shortly after the Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. -
D-Day
Operation Overlord (D-Day) - Allied invasion of Normandy
6 Jun 1944 -
Soviets liberate Auschwitz
Approximately 20,000 Auschwitz prisoners made it to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where they were liberated by the British in April 1945. -
President Roosevelt dies and Truman Becomes President
The US is taken over by Vice President Truman -
Adolf Hitler Dies
Adolf Hitler Kills Himself in Berlin to avoid capture from the Red Army -
V-E Day (Victory in Europe)
The public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. The two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Japanese surrender
Japanese surrender
