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Treaty of Versailles was Signed
After the victory of the allies in World War one, they made Germany sign a "Guilt treaty" by signing saying the war was all their fault and that they would pay debts ad reparations. -
Mussolini as Prime Minister
The weaknesses of the liberal state was the fundamental factor in Mussolini’s rise to power. The greatest weakness of the liberal state was the coalition government instability. Mussolini’s skills & abilities and Fascist methods significantly contributed to how he became Prime Minister. Mussolini was also a very gifted speaker and this was used effectively in propaganda that allowed the movements profile to rise considerably. -
Washington Naval Conference
The Washington Naval Conference was a military conference called by U.S president Warren G. Harding and held in Washington, D.C. from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. -
Beer Hall putsch
From November 8 to November 9, 1923, Adolf Hitler and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. Since 1921, Hitler led the Nazi Party, a political group that promoted anti-Semitism and was unhappy with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. After the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler was sent to jail for five years, he spent less than a year behind bars and during that time he wrote "Mein Kampf". -
Dawes Plan
The dawes plan was an attempt in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem. Proposed by the Dawes commitee and Charles Dawes himself. Which had made things worse for international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. -
Death of Lenin
Vladimir Lenin was founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect and first head of the Soviet state. He was born April 22, 1870. He died of a stroke on January 21st, 1924. Before he died he told other officals to not let Stalin rule and to kick him out of the Bolshevik party. After he died it was too late, and Stalin was already taking control. -
Mein Kampf Published
Mein Kampf was published by Adolf Hitler, he wrote it while he spent his year in jail. "Mein Kampf" means ("My struggles") in german. He said how the depression was caused by the Jewish bank tellers. -
HiroHito becomes Emperor
Hirohito was born April 29th, 1901, in Tokyo, Japan.he was crowned prince at 15. In November of 1921 he was appointed ruler because of his dad's failing health. On January 26, 1924, he married Princess Nagako, a distant cousin of royal blood. they would eventually have seven children. On December 25, 1926, following the death of his father, Hirohito succeeded him as emperor, taking the 124th Chrysanthemum Throne. He was given the title "Showa" ("Enlightened Peace") and was known as Showa Tenno. -
1st five year plan
Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, adopted by the party in 1928, called for rapid industrialization of the economy, with an emphasis on heavy industry. The Plan also called for transforming Soviet agriculture from predominantly individual farms into a system of large state collective farms. The Communist regime believed that collectivization would improve agricultural productivity and would produce grain reserves sufficiently large to feed the growing urban labor force. -
Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash was the U.S. Stock Market crash of October 29, 1929. This precipitated a World-wide Collapse and a 10 year depression. With unemployment spread all over the country. -
Dachau built
Dchau was the first Nazi Concentration camp built. It was shortly built after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. It would soon be filled with millions of Jews being sent to work and soon to die. -
1st Nuetrality Act is passed
The first neutrality act was passed by Congress in August 1935 and imposed a ban on shipments of weapons and war materiel to belligerent countries and discouraged travel by Americans. -
Signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis
Rome-Berlin Axis, formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. It was an agreement formed by Italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 26, 1936. It was formalized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. -
Signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact
The Anti-Comintern Pact of was an agreement between Germany and the Empire of Japan. The treaties were brought by Adolf Hitler, who was publicly inveighing against Bolshevism and who was interested in Japan’s successes in the opening war against China. The Japanese were angered by a Soviet-Chinese nonaggression treaty of August 1936 and by the sale of Soviet military aircraft and munitions to China. -
Hitler declares Austria as a part of the Third Reich
Hitler always wanted Austria to join them since 1919, despite the fact that Hitler did not have the full approval of Austrian Social Democrats, the rise of a pro-Nazi right-wing party within Austria in the mid-1930s which was a good time for Hitler to make his move. -
Munich confernece is called
On September 29th, 1938, the Munich Conference was called. Hitler met with representatives of the heads of state from France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. An agreement was reached that Hitler could annex the Sudetenland provided he promised not to invade anywhere else. All four countries signed the agreement: Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, and Benito Mussolini. -
German troops invade Czechoslovakia
On September 30, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, handing it over to Germany. On March 15, 1939, Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia. -
Mussolini invades Albania
Hitler kept invading States and it made Mussolini feel second-rate member so he decided to invade Albania. But, King Victor Emmanuel III criticized the plan to take Albania as an unnecessary risk. Mussolini stayed for a little but soon got kicked out and did not annex Albania with Italy. -
German-soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed
Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which both countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. But, Hitler soon broke the pact. -
Germany attacks Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. From East Prussia and Germany in the north and Silesia and Slovakia in the south, German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. -
The Soviet Union attacks Finland
On November 30, 1939, Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid that steeled the Finns for resistance, not capitulation. -
German invades Denmark and Norway
On April 9th, 1940, German warships enter the major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo. Deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. And German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities at the same time. -
Churchill is named Prime Minister of Great Britain
Winston Churchill, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons. -
German invades the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
2,500 German aircraft proceeded to bomb airfields in Belgium, Holland, France, and Luxembourg, and 16,000 German airborne troops parachuted into Rotterdam, Leiden, and The Hague. The Dutch army was defeated in five days. -
Dunkerque is evacuated
The evacuation code named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches/harbors of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940, during World War II. -
Mussolini declares war on France and Great Britain
On June 10th,1940, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a struggle between the German Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air force. The battle was the first major military campaign in history to be fought entirely in the air, was the result of a German plan to win air superiority over Southern Britain and the English Channel by destroying the British air force and aircraft industry. -
Japan forms an alliance with Germany and Italy
Japan forms an alliance with Hitler and Mussolini (Germany and Italy). They will be known as the axis powers. -
Erwin Rommel takes control of Libya
Erwin Rommel also known as "The Desert Fox", was a German Field Mashal of World War II. He arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly formed Afrika Korps, to reinforce the beleaguered Italians’ position on Febuary 12,1941. -
Germany attacks Soviet Union
The codename Operation was "Barbarossa." Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. From the beginning of planning, German military and police authorities intended to start a war of annihilation against the Communist state as well as the Jews of the Soviet Union. -
Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941. -
Pearl Harbor is attacked
On december 7th, 1941, Pearl harbor is attacked on an early morning. The japanese were kamikazes and died just to blow up pearl harbor. This starts tension and slowly brings US to war. -
US declares war on Japan
After the attacking of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt declared war on Japan. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany. It was held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20th. -
Bataan Death Maech
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway
Midway was inbetween Japan and America and was a US base. This war was fought by aircraft. Early morning on June 4th, aircraft from four Japanese aircraft carriers attacked and severely damaged the US base on Midway. -
Battle of Stalingrad
This battle was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
VJ Day
On September 2, 1945, a surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. President Truman declared September 2nd to be VJ Day. -
D-Day
On June 6th, 1944, the Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
MacAuthur lands in the Philipines
After advancing island by island across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte. -
V-E DAY
Both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day also known as V-E Day. This day marks the day the nqazis surrendered. -
Potsdam Conference
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman(The Big Three) meet in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
