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germany weimar republic fails and hitler rise to power
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 heralded worldwide economic disaster. The Nazis and the Communists made great gains at the 1930 Election Both the Nazis and Communists were pledged to eliminating democracy, but between them secured over 50% of Reichstag seats, requiring the moderate parties to consider negotiations with anti-democrats.The Communists", wrote Bullock, "openly announced that they would prefer to see the Nazis in power rather than lift a finger to save the republic -
Japan occuipies manchuria
In the 1930s, the Japanese controlled the Manchurian railway. In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army.By February 1932, the Japanese had conquered the whole of Manchuria.Thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.China appealed to the League of Nations. The League sent a delegation to Manchuria to see what was happening. -
hitler germany takes rhineland
the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties, marking the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region. The remilitarization was hugely important as it changed the balance of power in Europe from France towards Germany, -
Germany takes the remainder of Czechoslovakia
Germany left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak and it became powerless to resist subsequent occupation. On 16 March 1939, the German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia -
germany takes the sudetenland portion of czechoslovakia
began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement. German leader Adolf Hitler's pretext for this effort was the alleged privations suffered by the ethnic German population living in those regions -
Munich Peace Conference
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's 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, excluding the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany. -
Germany Russia sign non aggression treaty
The pact's publicly stated intentions were a guarantee of non-belligerence by each party towards the other and a commitment that neither party would ally itself to or aid an enemy of the other party. In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol that divided territories -
France and Britain declare war against Germany
On this day in 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.British and French declaration of war on Germany" news ... It is the evil things that we shall be fighting against – brute force, bad faith, injustice -
Germany and Soviet Union attack Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland (Polish:1939 and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall in Germany , was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing -
Hitler attacks Denmark, Norway and Belgium
April 9, 1940 – Nazis invaded Denmark and Norway.
May 10, 1940 – Nazis invaded France and Belgium.
May 15, 1940 – Holland surrendered to the Nazis.with countries quickly falling into Nazi hands, neutral countries (Canada, U.S.A) were pulled into war after the fall of France in order to help out Britain
·a wall was built to keep Britain out of Germany (Nazi occupied countries)
Britain couldn’t penetrate through the wall
Canada became one of Britain’s strongest allies as France fell away from powe -
Germany invades France
In the Second World War, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb Case Yellow German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley to cut off and surround the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium. When British and adjacent French forces were pushed -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain German: England, literally "Air battle for England is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces,and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
U.S puts an embargo on Japan
The Japanese had annexed Manchuria 1932 and then 1937 invaded China with a view to total conquest of the whole country.This would have adversely effected the American 'Open Door' policy of free trade with China for all.
The Japanese war machine obtained most of its oil and scrap metal from USA.Following Japanese occupation of French Indochina in 1940,in an effort to deprive Japan of these raw materials, and thus force the Japanese to halt military operations in China,President Roosevelt put -
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harborwas a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 December 8 in Japan. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II 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 -
. United States enters WWII
World War II covers the war against Japan, Germany and Italy starting with the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. During the first two years of the global conflict, the United States had maintained formal neutrality as made officially in the 1937 Quarantine Speech delivered by by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 5, 1937 in Chicago, while supplying Britain, the Soviet Union, and China with war material through the Lend-Lease Act which was signed into law on March 11, 1941, -
Tehran conference where second front is set
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran. It was the first of the World War II conferences of the "Big Three" Allied leaders the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It closely followed the Cairo Conference which had taken place on 22–26 November 1943, and preceded -
what does D day mean
In other words, the D in D-Day merely stands for Day. This coded designation was
used for the day of any important invasion or military operation. For military planners
(and later historians), the days before and after a D-Day were indicated using plus and
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Victory in Europe Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
victory over japan
v day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 when it was announced in the United States and the rest of the Americas and Eastern Pacific Islands as well as to September 2, 1945,
