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Paris Peace Conference
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The allies went at the Paris Peace Conference following WWI. They created the Treaty of Versalles and the League of Nations to hopefully keep peace in the world. -
Nine Power Treaty
The signers were China and the United States, Great Britain (for the British Empire), Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands. -
Mussolini takes over Italy's Government
Mussolini was able to take control of Italy because King Victor Emmanuel III refused to support the fascist. -
Beer Hall Putsch
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They began at the Burgerbrau Keller in the Bavarian city of Munich, aiming to seize control of the state government, march on Berlin, and overthrow the German federal government. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928. Sometimes called the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, the pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War, but it had little effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II. -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression (1929-39), the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. -
Hitler is appointed Germany's Chancellor
This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check”; however, it would have disastrous results for Germany and the entire European continent. -
Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly, after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. -
Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany
The death of President Hindenburg in August 1934, allowed him to combine both chancellor's and president's positions into one when Hitler became the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor. -
Rohm Purge
The Nazi leaders took advantage of the purge to kill other political enemies, primarily on the German nationalist right. Known as the “Night of the Long Knives” or “Operation Hummingbird,” the murders cemented an agreement between the Nazi regime and the German Army (Reichswehr) that enabled Hitler to proclaim himself Fuhrer of National Socialist Germany and to claim absolute power. -
Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles many times. The first time was over Germany armed forces.Then Rhineland. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Race Laws consisted of two pieces of legislation: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The aim to Italys invastion was to boost italtian national prestige. Italy had adapted Hitlers plan to expand german territories. -
Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
The rhineland was supposeto be a non militarized zone acording to the Versillies. Hitler ordered troops to enter the Rhineland. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Mussolini announced from the Milan cathedral that Germany and Italy had formed a Rome-Berlin Axis. This axis was set for the stage of WWII. -
Germany Annexes Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German speaking nation for third reich. -
Munich Conference
An agreement was made that Hitler could annex the Sudentland if he promised he wouldnt invade anywhere else. -
Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
Great Britian, France, and Italy signed an agreement that allowed Nazis to annex part of Czechoslovakia. -
Franco becomes Dictator of Spain
He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic. -
Nazi invasion of Poland
Warsaw surrendered to the Germans. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany -
Battle of Britain
Churchill gave a rousing speech to the British people, announcing: "... the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin." Four days later, France surrendered to Germany and Hitler turned his attention to Britain. -
Lend Lease Act
the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union -
Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany and its Axis allies began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union named Operation Barbarossa -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Wannsee conference
Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question." -
Battle of Midway
This was an attempt from the Japanese military to completly destroy the american presence in the pacific, but their plan had back fired and they lost four aircraft carriers and a destroyer -
Doolittle Raid
A wing of 16 B-25's attacks the japanese mainland lead by a decorated WWI veteren named James H.Doolittle -
Battle of Stalingrad
This was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with casualitys reaching 2 million -
D-Day and Operation Overlord
future President Dwight D. Eisenhower, then supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in World War II gives the go-ahead for a massive invasion of Europe called Operation Overlord. Back in America, President Franklin Roosevelt waited for word of the invasion's success. -
Operation Valkyrie
Used if Allied bombing of German cities or an uprising of forced laborers from occupied countries working in German factories resulted in a breakdown in law and order. -
Battle of the Bulge
German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region on the Western Front. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol. -
V-E Day
The Western Allies crossed the Rhine after having smashed through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran West Germany. -
Little Boy Dropped
the bomb was used to shorten the war between the US and Japan -
Fat Man Dropped
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V-J Day
this day hosts the formal surrender of the Japanese government to the Allies. Victory over Japan was celebrated back in the States. -
Nuremberg Trials
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handed down its verdicts in the trials of 22 Nazi leaders - eleven were given the death penalty, three were acquitted, three were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
Trials begin on 28 Japanese officers on trials against humanity and war crimes
