world war 2

Bolshevik Revolution

Jan 23, 1917

1917;Bolshevik Revolution started communist rule in Russia

Paris Peace Conference

Jan 23, 1919

determined terms of peace after ww1

Treaty of Versailles Signed

Jun 28, 1919

June 28, 1919; officially ended state of war

Washington Naval Conference

Jan 23, 1922

Slowed the naval arms race.

Rapallo Treaty

Apr 16, 1922

Germany and Russia renounce financial and territorial gains from ww1

Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy

Oct 23, 1922

Made Italy a facist nation.

England refuses to renew its alliance with Japan

Aug 17, 1923

officaly terminated alliance with Japan.

Beer Hall Putsch

Nov 8, 1923

Failed attempt at a Nazi overthrow in Munich

Dawes Act

Jan 23, 1924

Dawes Act, meant to solve reparations

Night of Long Knives

Jan 24, 1926

Mein Kamph Published

Jul 18, 1926

Hitler’s book expressing his political ideology and plans for Germany.

Stalin comes to power in Russia

Jan 23, 1929

socialist ruler

Stock Market Crash

Jan 23, 1929

Plunged U.S. into the great depression.

1930 French begin constructing the Maginot line

Jan 23, 1930

Line of defenses along France’s border with Germany.

Ukrainian Famine

Apr 23, 1932

Man made genocide 2.4-7.5 million deaths.

First concentration camps established

Jan 11, 1933

Hitler made chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler declares himself Vice Chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany

Jan 31, 1933

Stalin begins military purges and The Great Terror

Jan 11, 1934

US Neutrality Acts

Jan 24, 1935

Berlin Olympics

Jul 23, 1936

Summer 1936

Rape of Nanking

Dec 23, 1937

1938, Hitler invades the Sudetenland

Jan 23, 1938

Nazi’s take control of Czechoslovakia 

Hitler invades Austria

Mar 12, 1938

Munich Conference

Sep 29, 1938

Gave Germany German speaking parts of Czechoslovakia.

Krystallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Coordinated attack against Jews

Enigma machine used in Britain

Jul 25, 1939

German encryption machine

Einstein writes a letter to FDR on the possibility of Atomic Weapons

Aug 2, 1939

Japan invades Manchuria

Sep 19, 1939

Japanese army acted in insubordination and invaded china

Battle of Britain

Jun 23, 1940

First battle fought mostly in the air.

Nazi Final Solution Developed

Jan 20, 1942

Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews

FDR signs Executive order 9066, beginning Japanese internment

Feb 19, 1942

Battle of Midway

Jun 4, 1942

important naval battle

Manhattan Project Begins

Jun 24, 1942

Nimitz and McArthur begin island hopping in the Pacific

Jan 24, 1943

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

US troops start fighting in Europe.

Operation Market Garden

Sep 17, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

US victory at Iwo Jima

Feb 19, 1945

Death of FDR

Apr 12, 1945

Hitler Commits Suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Surrender of Germany

May 7, 1945

First successful test of atomic bomb

Jul 16, 1945

US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

Surrender of Japan

Sep 2, 1945