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Treaty of Versailles
The treaty that was signed at the end of WW1 -
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League of nations created
It was a group to stop future wars from happening created by USA, even though they didn't join it. -
Stock market crash
It was caused by too many people selling their stocks for low prices, people not paying the debt -
Japan seizes Manchuria
Japan detonated a small quantity of dynamite close to a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near Mukden. The explosion was so weak that it failed to destroy the track and a train passed over it minutes later, but the Japanese Army accused Chinese dissidents of the act and responded with a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria -
Hitler invades Rhineland
Hitler wanted this area back since Germany had to give it away in the treaty -
Annex of austria
The austrians where more then welcome to hitler, they voted him in. -
Munich Pact
An agreement between Germany and Russia to not attack each other. -
Kristallnacht
was a series of coordinated deadly attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed. -
Battle of Ortona
The Battle of Ortona was a small, yet extremely fierce battle fought between a battalion of German Fallschirmjäger (paratroops) and assaulting Canadian forces -
Hitler seizes all of Czechoslovackia
Hitler wanted more teritory -
St.louis incident
When a boat full of Jews escaping keep having to go to port to port due to no one letting them land. -
Nazi/Soviet non-aggression pact
An agreement between soviet union and germany for no war -
Hitler attacks Poland
This was the battle that set off WW2, with Britain and France having to declare war on Germany due too them being alies -
War Measures Act invoked in Canada
origanally the War Measures Act was a federal statute adopted by Parliament in 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War. It gave broad powers to the Canadian government to maintain security and order during war, but it was used again at the start of WW2 -
Canada declares war on Germany
This was the first time Canada got to chose to go to war. -
Fall of Holland,Belgium and France
They got tooken over by Nazi Germany -
Miracle at Dunkirk
338,226 soldiers where rescued -
Battle of Britain
When Hitlers Luftwaffe bombed Britain -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbour
To weaken the US navy -
Invasion of Hong Kong
Japan invades Hong Kong -
Wannsee Conference
It was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable -
Dieppe raid
The Dieppe Raid was an Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe -
Allied troops land in Sicily
To take it over -
Canadian soldiers liberate Netherlands
They were so happy to be saved that every year they send tulip bulbs to Canada. -
Germany surrenders
Also known as V-E day -
D-day
Troops lanned on the beach of normany to take france and some of europe back -
USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The first of the two atomic bombs with 166,000 deaths -
Japan surrenders
Also known as V-J day
