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Enabling Act
This was the second major step, after the Reichstag Fire Decree, through which Chancellor Adolf Hitler legally obtained plenary powers and established his dictatorship. It received its name from its legal status as an enabling act granting the Cabinet the authority to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag. This allowed Hitler total power to expand and militrazed which angered other countries and encroached on them, leading to war. -
Mein Kampf (Vol.1)
This literature was a compilation of works that involved hitlers autobiographical experienced and his "idealistic" views for politics and strategies of ruling. It raised comon belief around Hitler and further empowered him and caused idolization of his ways. This allowed him to come into powered strongly supported, which helped him put his ways into action. -
Wall Street Crash of 1929, Stock Market Crash.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October), was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. It catalyzed the 12 year great depression which devastated all western industry and economy. The upset that encompassed the crash led to revolt and opposition of certain parties and leaders. -
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The Great Depression
a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. It originated in the US and spread to all other countries eventually. It allowed many new leaders to come to power in hopes that they could fix situations, which caused internal conflicts Europe once again. And upset within society. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
It was a military incursion in 1931. Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukoku, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. Following the invasion there was resistance and aid in ressistance against it whihc led to conflict and war. -
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Japanese Expansion
The Japanese expansion was no solid timeline of a start and end to rising power, althought there were a series of events across these 15 years in which the Japanese proved powerful and pushed expansion upon the neighbooring countries. Events such as the Japanese invasion of Thailand, invasion of British Malaya, and the attack on Pearl Harbor led to war and conflict between Jaoan and the countries threatened by the empire. -
Hitler comes to power
Proceeding "Mein Kampf" Hitler rose to power in the Nazi Party, and then rose to power in the German government. This allowed him to follow through with his cruel policies and treatment of the minorites in Germany. And to put into reality his odd but supported methods of ruling. His political ways and agression toward other countires caused aggitation and resistance. -
Nuremberg Laws
These were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism became an official ideology incorporating scientific racism and antisemitism. These laws stated that jews could not marry non-jews and that they, and other minorities were inferior beings. And that the aryan race was dominant and the better race. This segregrated and forced the jews to be looked down upon. -
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Ethopian War
It was a colonial war that was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa. With Mussolini's victory of the war and gain of land, it became the "age of consensus" in which foreign leaders and his own people praised him greatly for his accomplishments. This gave him greater political authority. -
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
This was an attack, or invasion of the rhineland byt the German army in order to reoccupy and remilitirize the rhineland with Germna soldiers, which once again broke one of the deals invovled with the Treaty of Versaille. Which led to aggitation and opposition from other countries. -
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Spanish Civil War
The war was a major conflict fought in Spain which began after a military rebellion, led by a group of conservative generals under Francisco Franco, whom went against the elected Government of the Second Spanish Republic, led by President Manuel Azaña. The conservative rebels were supported by the Facists and Nazis, and the leaders were supported by the soviet union, causing even further internal European conflict. -
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Appeasment
Rfeerence to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power. It was used by the European democracies in the 1930s who wished to avoid war with the dictatorships of Germany and Italy, after already witnessing the last world wars. Neville Chamberline, Mussolini, and the French Premier. Evidently the policies and strategies used by these leaders were ineffective in the long run, because war eventually broke out anyways. -
Rape of Nanjing
Also known as the Nanking massacre this event was a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing. The great disturbance and uproar caused by this devestating event caused many people, native, as well as foreign to take action against Japanese cruelty. -
Anschluss
The time period in which Nazi Germany occupied and annexated Austria. Among Hitlers first major steps into expanding his empire and controlling land lost prior World War I. This broke one of many agreements in the Treaty of Versaille, which stated Austria and Germany could never unite as a combined power. -
The Munich Agreement
It was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. This outraged Hitler and he chose to alienate himself from the other powers, causing opposition and contraversy between the countries.
