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rise to power of Stalin
When Vladimir Lenin died in January 21, 1924 Joseph Stalin took control of the Soviet Union. -
rise to power of Mussolini
Mussolini was the youngest prime minister of Italty, On June 1940 he sided with Germany, -
rise to power of Hitler
On 1933 the president Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler leader of the fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. -
Italy's conquest of Ethiopia
Italy invaded Ethiopia for many reasons, some of them were to have access to the Red Sea, also because France and England had colonies in Africa so Italy wanted to keep up with them, and because Ethiopia was weak. -
Spanish Civil War
The government was inefficient and corrupt. In 1921, an army was sent to Spanish Morocco to put down a rebellion. It was massacred but this defeat seemed to emphasise just how corrupt and incompetent Spain’s leadership was. -
Rome-Berlin Axis formed
A Coalition between the Fascist Italy and the Nazi Germany. -
Annexation of Austria
On this day, Adolf Hitler announces an “Anschluss” (union) between Germany and Austria, in fact annexing the smaller nation into a greater Germany. Union with Germany had been a dream of Austrian Social Democrats since 1919. -
Roosevelt Writes Hitler and Mussolini
On this day in 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt writes to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler regarding the threat of war in Europe. The German chancellor had been threatening to invade the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia and, in the letter, his second to Hitler in as many days, Roosevelt reiterated the need to find a peaceful resolution to the issue. -
Nazi - Soviet nonaggression act
A treaty of non-aggression signed by Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop also known as the Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact. It took place in Moscow. -
Poland Attacked
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain 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. -
Italy Invades Greece
On this day in 1940, Mussolini’s army, already occupying Albania, invades Greece in what will prove to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce’s forces. -
Battle of Kiev
The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. It is considered the largest encirclement of troops in history. -
rise to power of Tojo
Tojo was the eldest descendant of a Samurai family. On Dec. 23, 1948 he was executed for his war crimes. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. -
Germany declares war on the U.S.A
On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict. -
Battle of Gazala
The Battle of Gazala was fought in North Africa in 1942 and culminated with the Allies losing Tobruk – a defeat Winston Churchill called a “disgrace”. The Battle of Gazala came after there had been a lull in the war in North Africa from February to mid-May 1942. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. This war was fought between the U.S who defeated the Japanese. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. -
Battle of Arnhem
The Battle of Arnhem was a famous Second World War battle fought in and around the Dutch towns of Arnhem, Oosterbeek, Wolfheze, Driel and the surrounding countryside from 17–26 September 1944. -
Battle of Leyte
The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philippines by American forces and Filipino guerrillas under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa started in April 1945. The capture of Okinawa was part of a three-point plan the Americans had for winning the war in the Far East. Okinawa was to prove a bloody battle even by the standards of the war in the Far East but it was to be one of the major battles of World War Two. -
Death of Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of the U.S.A during the world war ll. He was also known as FDR, and was the 32nd president of the U.S.A. His death cause was cerebral hemorrhage. -
V-E Day (Victory in Europe)
V-E Day was the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Dropping of the Atomic bomb in Hirsoshima
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. -
Dropping the Atomic bomb of Nagasaki
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender. -
V-J Day (Victory over Japan)
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.
