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Paris Peace Conference
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The Allied powers met at the palace of Versaile to create the Treaty of Versailles ending WWI. The Treaty created the League of Nations that was supposed to keep peace after WWI. -
Nine Power Treaty
A treaty signed in Washington DC. China, United States, Great Britain, Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands, who agreed to respect the sovereignty, independence, and territorial and administrative integrity of China. Also They committed themselves to the Open Door policy of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations in China. -
Mussolini takes over Italy's government
Click here for more InformationMussolini took over Italy's government, and started the Facism party to restore Italy's government while they were in depression. Mussolini actualy started the Facism party, which many leaders will use for the years to come. -
Beer Hall Putsch
Click here for more InformationThe Beer Hall Putsch, was Hitler’s attempt to overthrow the Weimar government of Ebert and establish a right wing nationalistic one in its place. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Click here for more InformationThe Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928. The treaty was signed by 15 countires that included: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, and the United States. -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August 1929. By then, production had already declined and unemployment had risen. The causes were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a struggling agricultural sector and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Click here for more InformationJapan invades Manchuria because it had invesded a lot of money into there economy. Japan also was getting over populated and need more area to live. -
Hitler becomes Germany's Chancellor
Click here for more InformationOn 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler, was appointed Reich Chancellor by the Reich President, Paul von Hindenburg. On his first day as chancellor, Hitler manipulated Hindenburg into dissolving the Reichstag and calling for the new elections he had wanted – to be held on March 5th, 1933. -
Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
Click here for more InformationJapan withdrew from the League of Nations because they were being blammed for events that they did in Manchuria. Japan's leader stated that they have had enough of the League blamming it all on them. -
Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany
In the July 1932 elections, they captured 230 out of 608 seats in the “Reichstag,” or German parliament. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed German chancellor and his Nazi government soon came to control every aspect of German life. -
First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
Click here for more Information Hitler passed the first Anti-Semitic law that was called Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums (or ‘Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service’). This law abolished the employment rights of Jewish public servants and banned non-Aryans from holding state jobs. -
Rohm Purge
Click here for more informationHitler had set up this purge because of potential political rivals in the Sturmabteilung, or S.A. One of these events during the purge was called the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler's troops believed to have killed over 400 political members of this group. -
Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles
Click here for more InformationOn Friday, March 15, 1935, Hitler departed his mountain retreat and returned to Berlin. He immediately convened a Cabinet meeting and also assembled members of the Army's General Staff. -
Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
Click here for more InformationNazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
In 1936 Italy's leader, Mussolini took over Ethiopia, for a second time during its country's history. The Emperor of Ethiopia went to the League of Nations to tell them that they needed to stop Mussolini and his troops of invading Ethiopia. -
Franco becomes Dictator of Spain
Click here for more InformationDuring the Spanish Civil War , General Francisco Franco is named head of the rebel Nationalist government in Spain. It took more than two years for Franco to defeat the Republicans in the civil war and become ruler of all of Spain. -
Germany Annexes Austria
Click here for more InformationOn March 12, Hitler and German troops marched into Austria, where enthusiastic crowds met them. Hitler appointed a new Nazi government, and on March 13 the Anschluss was proclaimed. -
Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
On 7 September 1938, the German Sudeten Party demanded union with Germany. Hitler demanded that Germans that live in Czechoslovakia to start causing government problems. -
Munich Conference
Click here for more InformationBritish and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland away to German conquest. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Click here for more InformationOn this day in 1939, Italy and Germany agree to a military and political alliance, giving birth formally to the Axis powers, which will ultimately include Japan. Mussolini coined the nickname "Pact of Steel" (he had also come up with the metaphor of an "axis" binding Rome and Berlin). -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Click here for more InformationOn this day in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, this would hopefully protect Germany from fighting on eastern fronts. -
Nazi invasion of Poland
Click here for more InformationAt 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. To Hitler, taking over Poland would bring Lebensraum, or "living space," for the German people. -
Battle of Britain
Click here for more InformationOn this day in 1940, the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain , which will last three and a half months. Britain knew that they were the next country Hitler was going for. -
Lend Lease Act
Click here for more Information The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” -
Operation Barbarossa
Click here for more InformationOn this day, over 3 million German troops invade Russia in three parallel offensives, in what is the most powerful invasion force in history. Nineteen panzer divisions, 3,000 tanks, 2,500 aircraft, and 7,000 artillery pieces pour across a thousand-mile front as Hitler goes to war on another front, second front. -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
Click here for more InformationOn this day a swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault, killing 2,400 Americans. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States into World War II. -
Wannsee Conference
Click here for more InformationHeydrich met with Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Central Office of Jewish Emigration, and 15 other officials from various Nazi ministries and organizations at Wannsee. The agenda to devise a plan that would render a "final solution to the Jewish question" in Europe. There plan was to send Jews to concentration camps in Poland -
Battle of Stalingrad
Click here for more InformationThe Battle of Stalingrad, was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. -
Doolittle Raid
Click here for more InformationOn this day, 16 American B-25 bombers, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet 650 miles east of Japan and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, attack the Japanese mainland. -
Battle of Midway
Click here for more InformationDuring the four-day sea-and-air battle, the U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy. This was a huge turning point in the Pacific war. -
D-Day
D-Day was the biggest attack on a Country ever in the world. On this day 100,000 of Allied troops took on the shores of Normandy. The Red Army moved into Germany, destroying everything in there path. Germany knew that the war was going to end. -
Operation Overlord
Click here for more Information On the day of Operation Overlord, 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest military assaults in history and required extensive planning. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
Operation Valkyrie
High German officials had made up their minds that Hitler must die, because he was leading Germany in a suicidal war on two fronts. Their plan was to attend Hitler's meeting and plant a bomb in a briefcase and then leave. The briefcase was on a wooden table that Hitler was studying a map on. Hitler moved the briefcase to another part of the room. The bomb later went off and only wounded, Operation Valkyrie was a fail. -
Battle of the Bulge
Click here for more InformationThis battle was the last time Germany pushed an offensive attack on Allied soldiers. The battle was an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.The Germans were able to push the Americans into retreat towards northwestern Belgium. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
Click here for more InformationAdolf Hitler , dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945, as his "1,000-year" Reich collapses above him. -
V-E Day
Click here for more InformationClick here for more InformationOn this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi Nation. -
Little Boy Dropped
On this day in 1945, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. -
Fat Man Dropped
Click here for more InformationOn this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States , at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's surrender. This bomb killed anywhere between 60,000 and 80,000, Japanese people. -
V-J Day
Click here for more InformationOn this day in 1945, was the formal surrender of the Japanese government to the Allies. Victory over Japan was celebrated back in the States. -
Nuremberg Trials
Click here for more InformationThe Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949, there were representatives from the United States , the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes of war, to crimes against humanity, that Adolf Hitler commited during WWII. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
