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Hitler's Nazi Party became the largest democratically elected party in the German Reichstag. Hitler aimed to eliminate Jews from Germany and establish a New Order to counter what h
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As Prime Minister, the first years of Mussolini's rule were characterized by a right-wing coalition government composed of Fascists, nationalists, liberals, and two Catholic clerics from the Popular Party.
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Stalin vastly increased the scope and power of the state's secret police and intelligence agencies. Under his guiding hand, Soviet intelligence forces began to set up intelligence networks in most of the major nations of the world, including Germany, Great Britain, France, Japan, and the United States.
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On November 15, 1931, despite having lost more than 400 men and 300 left wounded since November 5, General Ma declined a Japanese ultimatum to surrender Tsitsihar. On November 17, in subzero weather, 3,500 Japanese troops, under the command of General Jirō Tamon, mounted an attack, forcing General Ma from Tsitsihar by November 19.
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Hitler had insisted on the ministerial positions as a way to gain control over the police in much of Germany.
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The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
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The Second Italo–Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo–Abyssinian War, was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire (also known at the time as Abyssinia). The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia.
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In Nanjing, China, Japan's army massacred a quarter of a million people.
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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. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe, without the presence of Czechoslovakia.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced.
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Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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The Germans moved to take control of that land directly between it.
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Signed into law by Franklin Roosevelt in 1940, the Act established the first peace-time draft in United States history.
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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The German Army never fully recovered from the beating it took in Russia around Moscow
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The Bataan Death March was the forced march of American and Filipino
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he quality of life in the camps was heavily influenced by which government entity was responsible for them.
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Also known as the North African Campaign
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The Battle of Midway in early June 1942, marked the turning point of World War II in the Pacific.
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he Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California
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Dismissed by Victor Emmanuel III
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The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning.
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With much of France now under allied control the Americans decided that the liberation of Paris by Christmas would be politically advantageous.
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A surprise attack
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After a two day naval bombardment General Walter Krueger and the 6th Army landed on 22nd October, 1944.
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After the death of FDR, Harry S. Truman of Missouri, the Vice President, took the oath as the thirty-second President.
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Also known as Victory in Europe day
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By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations so they surrendered
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Due to major war criminals, the war crime trials had to be held
