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Soviet Gulag
Soviet Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems during the Stalin era, from the 1930s until the 1950s.Labor camp prisoners became an important resource for the construction of many industries, including the nation's railways and roads, mining operations, and the timber industry. Many people who were in the camps suffred extemly and manygulity people were in the camps for no reason. -
Japanese invasion on Machuria
The Japanese invested heavily in China's northeast province, Machuria. It was rich in coal and iron. Japanse invaded Machuria and Japense engineers and technicans came in large numbers to buil mines and factories to produce and find coal. -
Hitler comes to power
Hitler was a powerful and a great speaker.He promised the disenchanted a better life and a new and beautiful Germany. The Nazis appealed especially to the unemployed, young people, and members of the lower middle class.In the 1924 elections the Nazis won 33 percent of the votes.In January 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor, the head of the German government,Germans thought they had actullay found their savior. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the persuction and murder of 6 milion Jews by Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Germans (Hitler) belived that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews, deemed inferior were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.The Nazis torutred Jews by putting them in gas chambers and put them in concentration camps. -
Mussolini Attacks Ethopia
The Ethopians had successfully resisted on Itlaian attempt at conquest.To avenge the defeat Mussolini orders an invasion on Ethopia. Ethopia's spears and swords were no match foe Italy's airplanes, tanks, guns, and poison gas. -
Japan invades China
A border incident set off a full-scale war agaions Japan and China.Japan forces swept into Northern China.Eventohugh China had a milolion soliers, there army was no match agiasnt the highlt trained and Industrlaized Japanesse miltary. Beijing and other Northern cities as well as Nanjing the capital fell to the Japanesse in 1937. Japanesse troops killed tens of thousands of captured soliders and civilans in Nanjing. -
Munich Agreement
Germany, Italy, Great Britan, and France sign the Munich agreement which forced the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudentenland,Including the key Czechoslovak miltary defense postions, to Nazi Germany -
THE PHONY WAR
It was the name of the ealry months of World War 2.
It was a quiet period which gave Britain a head start on preparing for the real war, when Hitler invaded denmark and Norway.During this period no land operations were undetaken by the Allies or the Germans after the Germans conquest of Poland in September 1939. -
Germany Invades Denmark
German warships entered major Norwegian ports from Narvick to Olso.Deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway.German forces were able to slip through the mines Britain had laid around Norwegian ports because local garrisons were ordered to allow the Germans to land unopposed. Norway Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack. Norway olds out until June 9. -
North African Campaign/Desert Campaign
Thr North African Campaign, involved campaigns fought in the Libayan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria. The campaogn was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of them had colonial intersts in Africa. It lead to the Allies victory. The Italian Empire failed. Axis forces in North Africa retreat to Italy, and commencement of the Allied Invasion of Sicily and Italy. -
Italy enters the war
Having declared a policy of neutrality at the outset of the war on 2 August 1914, Italy government was persuaded to join the war.Italy's decison to enter the war was largely driven by the terms of the secret 1915 Treaty of London under which she hadbeen promised large territorial gains at the close of the war at Austria-Hungary's expense. -
Vichy Government
Vichy France, officially the French State, was the government headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.The government of France after Germany defeated and occupied it at the beginning of World War II see fall of France -
Battle of Brtian
German and Britsh air forces clashed in the sjies over the United Kingdom. Brtians vcirtory saved the country from a ground invasion and possible occupation by German forces, they proved that air power alone could be used to win a major battle. June 17,1940 the French signed an armistic and quit World War 2. Now the British stood alone the power of Germany's miltary forces, which conqured most of Western Europe in less than two months. -
Triparite Pact
The Triparite Pact also know as the Berlin Pact was an aggreement betweenGermany, Italy, and Japan. It was a piece of propaganda directed at the U.S. Its practical effect was limited, since Italo-German and the Japensse operational theatres were on opposite soeds of the world. The high contracting powersd had disparable stargtic intersts. It was signed by Adolf Hitler, Galezo Ciano, and Saboro Kuruso. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
It was a surpise miltary strike against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,.The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. The attack left Americans in shock , now America was finally in the War -
Battle of Stalingard
The Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.Germany attacked Stolengrad it was one of the bloodest battles in the history of wars ( 2 million died). Germans dropped 1,000 bombs on Stalingard and 6,000 returened home from the war. -
Soviets attacking Hungaria and Romania
Soviet troops counterattack, breaking through the Hungarian and Romanian lines northwest and southwest of Stalingrad and trapping the German Sixth Army in the city. Forbidden by Hitler to retreat or try to break out of the Soviet ring, the survivors of the Sixth Army surrender on January 30 and February 2, 1943. -
D-Day
The Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history. More than 130,000 Allies storm the Beaches of Normandy on D-Day. The Allies libreated France on Agust 1944. Paving the way for all Eurpeans.D-Day was the first step of a massive military campaign to free Europe from Nazi control, creating a second front in Europe and trapping Germany between the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom. -
Hitlers Death
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. There are many reaosns why Hitler killed himself but a few are that he was scared of giving up his hero status and after being sure that his bunker was captured he did not want to surrender.I guess he didnt want anyone to assinate him, so he decided to do it before anyone else could. -
Soviet declares war on Japan and invaed Machuria
The Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. The Soviets and Mongolians terminated Japanese control of Manchukuo, Mengjiang, northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The rapid defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army helped in the Japanese surrender and the termination of World War II.
