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Mussolini and the Fascist come to power in Italy
In 1919, Mussolini organized his fascist movement. He formed groups of street fighters who wore black shirts. His “Blackshirts” fought numerous of socialists and communists and cast them out of local and federal governments.
The fascist movement rapidly gained the support of anti-communist people, property owners, and middle-class people.The National Fascist Party was highly supported in Italy in which they thought was very necessary in order to restore and expand their Italian territories, -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
In the 1930s, the Japanese were intended to extend their empire. They ruled in Korea, but they also controlled the Manchurian railway, but in September 1931, they declared that Chinese soldiers had incapaciated the railway, and attacked the Chinese army . The Chinese did not fight back because they knew that the Japanese were awaiting for an excuse to invade Manchuria and they did. -
Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany
In the early 1930s ,there was a worldwide economic depression that had hit the country extremely hard. Adolf Hitler was a speaker who allured a profuse amount of Germans who were desperate for change. He promised Germans a better life. He gave them hope. The Nazis appealed especially to the unemployed, people,and members of the lower middle class. Hitler used this economic crisis as a way of rising to power . -
Munich Conference
On 29 September 1938, the Munich Conference was called. Hitler met with representatives of the heads of state from France, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
They formed an agreement which was stating that Hitler could annex the Sudetenland provided he pledged not to invade anywhere else. All four countries signed the agreement: -
Kristallnacht
Kristalnacht was a coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich during the night of November 9, 1938. During that night in Germany, a profuse of Jews were subjected to outrageous violence by the Nazis. More than 1,000 Jewish synagogues and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and transported to concentration camps. -
Germany and the USSR sign the Non-Agression Act
On August 23, 1939–Around the time of WWII Germany and the Soviet Union shocked the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic took place throughout the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean.In 1943 the Germans had a profuse of submarines in the Atlantic, but the Allies had broken the German secret codes and had developed new technologies for fighting submarines.he Allies used radar to tell where the ships were and new underwater bombs that helped to destroy the submarine.Nearly 30,000 sailors were killed on each side. The Allies lost 3,500 supply ships and the Germans lost 783 submarines. -
Germany invades Poland-Beginning of WWII
Invasion of Germayn was also referred to as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War. The German invasion began on September1, 1939. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing Poland under the conditions of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty.Germany invaded Poland from the north, south, and west.Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence. -
Presidential election of 1940
On July 18, 1940, Roosevelt was nominated for a third presidential term at the Democratic Party convention in Chicago. The president received some words of criticism for running again simply because there was a rule in American politics that there shall be no U.S. president that should serve more than two terms. -
Congress passed Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the idea meant for providing U.S. military assistance to foreign countries during World War II. It authorized the president to transport arms or any other defense materials for which Congress helped those who would help benefit to the U.S. -
France falls to Germanay
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and other countries in May 1940 during WWII. -
Formation of the axis powers
e alliance began to form in 1936. First, on October 15, 1936 Germany and Italy signed a friendship treaty that formed the Rome-German Axis. It was after this treaty that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini used the term Axis to refer to their alliance. Shortly after this, on November 25, 1936, Japan and Germany both signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, which was a treaty against communism. -
BOMBING OF THE Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
Around 8 a.m. , on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The attack lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese sabotaged 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. Nearly 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and 1,000 were wounded. The next day President Roosevelt declareed war on Japan. This event led to the US engaging in WWII. -
Allied Invasion /Victory in the Phillipines
The attack on the Philippines started on December 8, 1941 ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour in Hawaii. At Pearl Harbor, the American aircraft were sabotaged while on the ground. With No air cover, the American Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines withdrew to Java on December 12,1941.Japanese succeeded in penetrating Bataan's first line of defense .Over the course of three years right to the day of Japan's surrender, the Philippines were to suffer hasrshly under the depredatins of military -
Formation of the United Nation
During August to October in 1944, representatives from China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States met to discuss a new ‘United Nations’ to replace the League of Nations; In order to prevent future wars between countries. In 1945 representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the charter for the United Nations. -
Relocation of Japanese Americans to camps
Only Two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. This act resulted in the relocation of nearly 120,000 people, many who were American citizens, to one of 10 internment camps located across the U.S -
Battle of Midway Island
The begining of the Battle of Midway Island the Japanese created a plan to creep up on the U.S. forces. They hoped to imprison a number of the U.S. aircraft carriers in a troublesome situation where they could sabotage them. But American code breakers had intercepted a profuse of Japanese transmissions.On July 4, the Japanese launched a number of fighter planes and bombers from their aircraft carriers to attack the island of Midway. Three U.S carriers were closing in on the Japanese. -
D- Day Invasion
On June 6, 1944 the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. This famous battle is referered to as D-Day or the Invasion of Normandy. -
Rosie the Riverter campaign encourages women to get a job
“Rosie the Riveter,” was government campaigning on which she aimed at recruiting female workers for the munitions industry, Resulting in her becoming the most iconic image of working women during the war.American women entered the workforce in ground-breaking numbers during World War II, while men were inlisting. Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. workforce rapidly increased from 27 percent to almost 37 percent. -
Preidential Election of 1944
November 7, 1944. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee, sought his fourth term in office; he won the elecrtion against the Republican Thomas E. Dewey. The election was set against the backdrop of World War II, which was going well for the United States and its Allies. Although former president Roosevelt was elected again he did not complete his fourth term. -
Yalta Conference
he February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.This day was the day that marked the end of WWII. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Fears that Nazi Germany would build and use a nuclear weapon during World War II triggered the start of the Manhattan Project, which was originally based in Manhattan, New York. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb named Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The explosion was huge, the city was destroyed, and tens of thousands of people were killed. The bomb was dropped by d the Enola Gay.The bomb itself was over 10 feet long and weighed around 10,000 pounds. A small parachute was on the bomb in order to slow its drop and allow the plane time to fly away from the blast zone. -
Surrender of Japan
during the late summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were sabotage. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. -
Rescue at Dunkirk
The 1940 Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo) was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 26 and June 4, 1940, when British and French troops were out late upon arrival by the German army. A shoking attempt was made on May 28, and a further 16,000 men recovered but many vessels were sunken, But the German side made it possible for the Allies to rescue 30,000 men, while on the next day over 68,000 troops were evacuated . -
Neutrality Act passed in the US
The Neutrality Acts of the 1930’s were a profuse of laws passed by Congress to weaken the growing turmoil in Asia and Europe—conflicts that would eventually lead to World War II. The Neutrality Acts were passed to ensure that the United States would not intervene and avoid foreign conflicts. -
Bataan Death March
The bataan Death March was a deadly march that was 65--80 miles long .The Japanese didnt feed them in 3 days. Some of them began to get weaker and weaker and began to fall behind, and they were beaten and killed by the Japanese. Most of time tired prisoners were driven over by trucks and other army vehicles.
