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World War II
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Benito Mussolini comes to power
He became the youngest prime minister in italy after the march on rome. -
Japan invades China
This led to the begining of world war 2 on the pacific side -
Joseph stalin becomes a dictator
He ruled by terror, and killed millions of his own people -
Liberal Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi Assasinated
He was shot because he was trying to force the people of japan back to using the methods of money and mercantilism that lead to depressions. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
The Army generals acted without concent from tokyo and annexed Manchuria -
Hitler becomes the dictatorof germany
Hitler was appointed chancellor by the president of germany. -
Spanish civil War
The spanish civil war was faught between the republicans who were loyal to the democratic spanish republic. They faught against the nationalist who were ruled by Francisco Franco -
italy invades Ethiopia
Italy wanted land for two reasons 1. was to build up an empire like that of the romans. 2. was to help strengthen the italiian colonies that were near Ethiopia by being conected to alll three. -
The Rome-Berlin Axis
Italy and germany signed a formal treaty that became known as the Rome-Berlin Axis. They started out this alliance by both Intervining in the Spanish civil war -
Germans Annex Austria
Adolf Hitler Bullied The Austrian Chancellor into appointing germany Nazis to his cabinet, He also forced Him to resign -
Francisco Franco Comes to power in spain
After the Nationalist movement defeated the Republicans in the spanish civil war Franco came to power. Franco ruled for 36 years until he died -
Italy annexes Albania
Benito Mussolini invaded Albania and made it apart of the Italian Empire -
Nazi-Sobiet Non-Aggresion peace treaty
Representitives from both Germany and Rusia met and signed a treaty which stated that neather country would attack the other -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany invaded poland to make that land land thiers at least half of it as Russia invaded the other half while Poland troops where retreating from the german forces -
Britan and france declare war on Germany
After germany invaded poland Britan and france had no choice but too honor the guarantee the made to poland -
The Soviet union invades Finland
Finland surrendered the northern shores of lake Logoda -
Germany invades Denmark and norway
Denmark serendered the day of the attack -
Norway surrenders
After only three days of holding off the erman forces norway surrenders -
Italy joins the war
Italy joins the war and inades france -
The battle of Britan
Germany had begun to attak Britan through the air to claim air superiority -
Hideki Tojo becomes the 40th prime minister of japan
He only ruled for about three years, but he was responible for the attack on pearl harbor, thus starting a war between the united states and japan -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
This Attack was a surprise from attack from Japan that led the U.S. into World War II -
Battle of Midway
This was a navy battle beteen The United States and Japan. Which the united states ended up wining. Japan attacked us hopig that we would lose and they would then rule the pacific -
D-day
This was the largest seaborn invasion ever although the allies failed in thier goals of capturing the cities in the first days they eventually did -
Battle of Bulge
This battle took place because Germany wanted the Harbor of Antwerp. This battle produced the most U.S. causilities during the war -
Roosevelt dies
FDR died of Cerebral Hemorrages while he was at a spa trying to relax and gain his strength back -
Victory in Europe Day
This day marked the day of the acceptance of Germanys unconditional surrender from the war -
Droping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The first ever nuclear weapon used during a war was dropped on Japanese soil because of thier inability to surender -
Dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagaski
The U.S. dropped onther bomd on Japanese Soil just 3 days after the first -
Victory over Japan Day
This is the day that Japan surrendered ending world war II
