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Weimar Republic Established in Germany
The Weimar Republic was established in germany as a semipresidential representative democracy to replace its imperial form of government. -
Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party
At this time, Hitler saw the Nazi Party as a revolutionary organization, whose goal was to overthrow the Weimar Republic. -
Washington Naval Conference
The Washington Naval Conference, also known as the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military coference called into session by President Warren G. Harding. -
Washington Conference
The Washington Conference was an international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race and to work out security agreements in the Pacific. -
5 Power Treaty
The Five-Power Treaty was an agreement among France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States to limit tonnage of certain types of naval shipsand establish a ratio of capital ships for each nation. -
9 Power Treaty
The Nine-Power Treaty was a treaty affirming the sovereignty and territorial rights of China as having its Open Door Policy. -
Joseph Stalin Became the Leader of the USSR
Stalin became the leader of the USSR on April 3, 1922 with the help of Lev Kamenev -
Benito Mussolini Became the Leader of Italy
Benito Mussolini was sworn in as the prime minister of Italy on October 31, 1922 and on January 3, 1925, with a majority backing of the Facist Party, he declared himself as dictator of Italy. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan, introduced by Charles Dawes, was formed in order to compromise and fix the over inflation problem in Germany, caused by the enormous amounts of war reparations implemented to them by the Treaty of Versailles. -
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf, or "My Struggle,"is an autobiography written by Adolf Hitler, where he outlines his political ideology and his future plans for Germany. -
Hirohito became the Emperor of Japan
Hirohito became the Emperor of Japan on December 25, 1926, following the deathof his father. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact Signed
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an international agreement among nations to not use war to resolve disputes or conflicts of any nature. -
Stock Market Crashed in the U.S.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929, or Black Tuesday, was a result of post-war optimism from World War I, which then led to the Great Depression. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
Immediately following the Mukden Incident, the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria. -
4 Power Treaty
The Four-Power Treaty was signed by the United States, Great Britain, France, and Japan and they all agreed to respect the Pacific holdings of countries that signed the agreement. -
Stimson Doctrine
The Stimson Doctrine is a policy of the United States government, to Japan and China, of nonrecognition of forced international territorial changes. -
The Holocaust Began
The Holocaust was the systematic killing of Jewish people during World War II, led by Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. -
Adolf Hitler Became the Chancellor of Germany
Hitler became popular among the people of Gemany because of his charasmatic speaking and his discontent with the Weimar Republic after the war, therefore, giving him the power to be appointed chancellor. -
The New Deal Started
The New Deal, created by Franklin Roosevelt, was a series of domestic programs implemented into the United States between the years of 1933 and 1938, to carry out Roosevelt's 3 R's: Reform, Recovery, and Relief. -
Good Neighbor Policy
The Good Neighbor Policy was created by President Franklin Roosevelt toward Latin America, stating non-intervention and non-interference with domestic affairs in Latin American countries. -
FDR's 4th Term
During FDR's 4th term, he was very sick, and carried out most of his foreign relations and war ideas from his bed in the White House. -
Franklin D Roosevelt(FDR) Became President of the U.S.
FDR was inagurated into his first term of presidency during the worst depression in history. -
London Economic Conference
The London Economic Conference was a meeting of representatives from 66 nations, in London at the Geological Museum, in order to win agreements on measures to fight global depression, revive international trade, and stabilize currency exchange rates. -
U.S. formally recognized the Soviet Union
President Roosevelt ended almost 16 years of American non-recognition of the Soviet Union, i hopes that it would better the United States. -
Tydings-McDuffie Act
The Tydings-McDuffie Act was a United States federal law that provided for self-government of the Philippines and and for the Philippines to gain its independence from the United States after a period of ten years. -
Reciprocal Trade Agreement
The Reciprocal Trade Agreement gave President Rooseveltthe power to adjust tariff rates and to negotiate bilateral trade agreements without recieving congressional approval first. -
Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were caused by the growth of isolationism in the United States after the costly World War I, and wanted to ensure that the United States were not involved with later foreign issues. -
Italy Invaded Ethiopia
Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, also known as the SEcond-Italo Ethipian War, resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia. -
Adolf Hitler Defied the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler defied the Treaty of Versailles by the remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army. -
Germany Reoccupied the Rhineland
Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by sending military troops into the Rhineland. -
Francisco Franco led a Fascict Revolt in Spain
Franco's fascist dictatorship in Spain led to all of tehe Republican Patries being fused into the Franco regime. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Pact where Nazi Hitler and Fascist Mussolini allied themselves. -
Japan Invaded China
The Japanese invaded China on July 7, 1937, which most historians consider this to be th start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Quarantine Speech
The Quarantine Speech was given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which called for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to American isolationism and non-intervention that was present. -
Rape of Nanking
The Rape og Nanking was an episode of mass murder and rape in Nanking committed by Japanese troops in the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Anschluss
The Anschluss was the annexation and ocupation of Austria into Nazi germany. -
Hitler Hosted Munich Conference
Hilter called the Munich Conference for the purpose of discussing the future of the Sudetenland in part of ethnic demands made by Hitler himself. -
Adolf Hitler took the Sudetenland
The leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy signed an agreement that allowed Hitler and Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenlad, a region Czechoslavakia that was home to ethnic Germans. -
Hitler took the Sudetenland
Hitler was willing to take the Sudetenland by force, but France and Britain negotiated with him becuase they did not want to start a war. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom, or series of attacks, against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and some parts of Austria. -
Hitler took Czechoslovakia
Hitler's forces invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia in an attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims. -
Pan-American Conference
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, called the Pan-American Conferences in hopes that better ties between the United States and its southern neighbors would open Latin American markets to U.S. trade. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact Signed
The Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed by Germany and the Soviet to guarantee that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Germany Invaded Poland(Blitzkrieg)
In the German invasion of Poland, Hitler used the blitzkried strategy; to extensively bomb and destroy the enemy's air capacity, railroads,and communication lines and follow up with a massive on land attack. -
Manhattan Project Began
The Manhattan Project was a resaerch and development project that produced the first atomic bombs in World War II. -
Sitzkrieg Began
Sitzkrieg, also known as the Phoney War, began in the early phases of World War II and showed weak military operations by Western Allies against the German Reich. -
Auschwitz Death Camp Opened
Auschwitx concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and run by Nazi Germany during World War II. -
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of GB
Winston Churchill was prime minister during the war, as well as the most dominant figure in politics, which gained him alot of praise after the war. -
Allies Evacuate Dunkirk
The Dunkirk Evacuation, or Operation Dynamo, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France between May 27 and June 4, 1940. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain wsa the first major battle to be fought entirely by aircraft. -
Vichy Government Established in France
The Vichy Governement of France wsa during the reign of Marshal Philippe Petain, during World War II, due to the German victory at the Battle of France. -
Destroyers for Bases Deal
The Destroyers for Bases Deal was between the United States and the United Kingdom, where fifty mothballed destroyers from the United States Navy were transferred to the United Kingdom in exchange forland rights on British possessions. -
Tripartite Pact Signed
The Tripartite Pact was signed by Imperial Japan, Fascist Italt, and Nazi Germany to establish the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Election of 1940
The Election of 1940 was held during World War I,I and after the ending of the Great Depression, which caused President Roosevelt to win his 4th election. -
Four Freedoms
The Four Freedoms was a speech made by FDR addressing the four freedoms that everywhere in the world ought to have; freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of want, and freedom of fear. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was a program under which the United States supplied the Allied Powers with materials. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa wa the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a policy statement issued early in World War II that defined the Allies goals for the post-war world. -
Office of Price Administration
The Office of Price Administration's functions were originally to control money and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
Shoot-on-Sight Orders
President Roosevelt issued his shoot-on-sight order when the U.S. Navy Ship, USS Greer, was the first to ever fire at a German ship. -
Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack implemented by the Imperial Japanese Navy against a United States Naval Base, which caused America to join the war. -
The U.S. declared war on Japan
The United States Congress declared war on Japan after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor a day earlier. -
War Production Board
The War Production Board, established by President Roosevelt, was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. -
Hitler Enacted the Final Solution
The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan to systematically kill off the Jewish people, which led to the deadliest phase of the Holocaust. -
Double V
The Double V was a motivational campaign during World War II that proposed African Americans to be able to fight in the war and to allow African Americans to be equal in society. -
Nisei were interned into relocation centers in the U.S.
Japanese American internment was caused by Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and placed 110,000 Japanese people in war relocation camps. -
MacArthur's "i shall return" speech
MacArthur left Corregidor and traveled with his family by boat for 560 miles to the Philippine island of Mindanao and made his "i shall return" speech to promise his people that he will return. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer of between 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army, after the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines, during World War II. -
Doolittle Raids Over Japan
The Doolittle Raid was an air raid of the United States on Tokyo and other Japanese cities during World War II. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first battle in which aircraft carriers engaged each other and the first time in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly on the other. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was one of the most important battles in World War II because the United States Navy defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy and damaged the Japanese fleet. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein was fought in the deserts of North Africa, and was an Allied victory,where Germany surrendured. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive by the Allied Forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in wartime history,was fought between Germany and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the name of the British-American invasion of French North Africa in order to clear the Axis Powers out of the area. -
Casablanca Conference
At the Casablanca Conference, President Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill and agreed to step up the Pacific war, invade Sicily, increase pressure on Italy, and insist upon and "unconditional surrender" of the enemy. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter is an American icon, who represents the American women who worked in the factories, producing munitions and war supplies, during World War II. -
Smith-Connally Anti-Trust Act
The Smith Connally Act was created after 400,000 coal miners went on strike, due to high wartime inflation causing their waged to be lowered. -
Allies Landed in Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, or Operation HUsky, was an airborn operation in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers. -
Island Hopping Campaign
Islandhopping was a military strategy implemented by the Allies against Japan and the Axis Powers in the Pacific War of World War II. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill where the main outcome was the committment to open a second front against Nazi Germany. -
Operation Overlord(D Day)
Operation Overlord was the secret name for the Battle of Normandy, which was launched by the Allied forces for the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II. -
Gen. MacArthur returned to the Philippines(Leyte Gulf)
MacArthur kept his promise and returned back to the Philippines with a huge invasion force and an enormous assembly of naval vessels. -
Kamikaze Pilots Appear in the Pacific
Kamikaze's were the pilots who flew into American warships in an effort to sink them during World War II. -
Battle of The Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a German offense that took place in the Ardennes and was the costliest battle in terms of deaths for the United States. -
Cost-Plus System
The cost-plus system was when the government agreed to paya company whatever it cost to make an item plus a guaranteed percentage of profit. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was held among President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, to discuss the re-establishment of war torn nations in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima, codenamed Operation Detachment, was a battle where the United States armed Forces fought for an captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese. -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific during World War II. -
Mussolini was Executed
Mussolini was shot ad killed by Walter Audisio, a commuist partisan commander who was reportedly given orders by the National Liberation Committee to kill Mussolini. -
Hitler Committed Suicide
Hitler committed suicide by gunshot and his wife committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. -
Germany Surrendured
On May 7, 1945, General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces at Reims. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day, or V-E Day, is the public holiday celebrating the formal acceptance of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces by the Allies, ending World War II in Europe. -
United Nations Charter
The United Nations Charter was the foundation treaty for the international organization called the United Nations. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held between Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to discuss how to punish Nazi Germany after the war. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb in history on Hiroshima because President Truman thought that it would end the war and that more lives would have been lost if the U.S. invaded Japan. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
The atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Japan was conducted by the United States toward the end of World War II and the estimated casualties are between 40,000-75,000. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the name for the day that Japan surrendured, ending World War II. -
Japan Surrendered
After intense bombing, destruction of navy and air force,and a devastated economy, Japan finally surrendered to the United States, ending the war. -
Nuremberg Trials
After World War II, the Allied Forces held a series of military tribunals, known as the Nuremberg Trials, where many notable members of leadership in Nazi Germany were prosecuted.
