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hitlars rise to power
hitlar started becoming increasingly involved with the developing nazi party after his time as a solger in WWI. in 1925 he stated developing his SS to help him in political battles they later became his speacle forces in the war. he elected into a poweful possition in the government. he was elected in 1933 because his facist ideals promisted to get germany out of a horble depression, he also spead the propiganda that germany had a divine right to rule the world and that they where the best race. -
tojos rise to power
genral tojo was a genral of the imperial japanise army and into the late 30s started becoming more involved in politics and then was elected the 40th prim minister of japan in 1940 -
spanish civil war
.estimated 500,000 killed
.faught between spanish republican who were loyal to the spanish republic and the democratic spanish nationalists rebles led by franciss franco who created an untrilnationalist coup aginst the spanish replic government with other genrals by killing the republics genrals he got help from other nationalis such as nazi germany.
ended april 1 1939 -
italy's conquest on ethiopia
. resulted in the military occupation of etheopia
.was started because the leuge of nations could not control italy when they clearly violated artical X of the legue of nations nor could they protect etheopia
. the war crated intenational popularity for mussiline forin leaders praised him for his achivments -
rome birlen axis
Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936. It was formalized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. The term Axis Powers came to include Japan as well. -
annexing of australlia
The 1938 Anschluss stands in contrast to the Anschluss movement (Austria and Germany united as one country),[a] initially attempted in 1918, when the Republic of German-Austria attempted union with Germany, but the Treaty of Saint Germain (10 September 1919) and the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919) forbade both the union and the continued use of the name "German-Austria" (Deutschösterreich). Previously, the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 had resulted in the dissolution of the 19th-century German -
poland attacked
december 24-january 4
. hitler blamed polnd of violating a long term peace treaty.
.genral himler had a group of elite german solgers dress like polish troops and attack a polish radio station when his troops took over the radio station they spock in polish and declared war on germany. so germany the attacked them
. 2 million people faught in this battle
. the sovits slovicks and germans invaded poland together
.200,000 people died in the fight
.germany won and took over -
nazi-soviot nonagression pact
before WWII broke out in europe the germans and the soviots arch enimys sighned a treaty that agreed to no military action twards eachother for the next ten years.
. hitler used it as a pact to make sure germany was able to invade poland -
battle of britain
july 10 to october 30. air campaighn waged by germans to gain air supperiority over the roal air force from july to october shipping convoys, and shipping centrys where primary german targets. the Luftwaff shifted attacks to RAF infistructure, and there factories then the luftwaff started attacking areas of political significance by terror bombing resourses. to prevent german air supiriority the british forced hitler to cancle operation sea lion -
attack on pearl harbor
was a suprise attack on the united states navle base conducted by the japanise imperial navy. this was our entry into WWII. the attacks objective was to stop the navy from conducting military action agins t the japasise enpire. all 8 US ships aircraftcarriers where damaged but only four were sunk this was a big loss for the US but we had the industrial power to put out a new ship every day. after the atttack the support for a non-aggresion pact dissapered. the us eventuly won with reinforcements -
batttle of midway
This was a naval battle during the pacific theter where the us defeted a large group of imperial japanise navy aircraftcarriers. the us won and pushed foward in the war wile japan took heavy . casualtys. the battle lasted three days -
battle of stalingrad
a major battle in WW2 where germany and its allies attacked the city of stallingrad for control of oil and political andvatiges. lots of close qurter battles and direc assults on civilians by air raids. the heavy loses on the german side was considered the turning point for germany in the war. -
D-day
This was when the americans retook the normandy beaches. The us lauunched an anphibius landing where they all ran out off boats most being immedietly shot dawn by machine gun fire. This battle led to the defeat off the germans resulting in the lybiration of france from the Nazi army. -
battle of the bulge
was a very aggresive campaighn launched by germany to take belgum, france, luxemboug on the western front. the attack was a suprise and damaged the allied forces while they where caut off guard. the united states launched the attack which caused them the most casualties during the war. The attack caused the germans llosses they could not replace. -
death of rosavelt
United States President Theidor Rasivelt died -
hary truman is elected president
was elected after FDR's death -
VE-day
the day the the allied forces took victory when germany and there allies surrendered. -
dropping of the little boy
The united Stated dropped little boy on herosima japan in order to show we where dominite in the war we also warned them if they keep taking military action aginst us we would drop anothe one. Japan din't listen. -
dropping of fat boy
the day america dropped the second bomb on japan to stop there military action. -
VJ- day
this is when japan surrenderd to the allied forces spicificaly america when we dropped the atomic bombs on japan