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Mussolini Comes To Power In Italy
Became prime minister in 1922. -
Treaty Of Versailles
Was one of the peace treaties at the end of the Great War. -
Stalin Becomes The Soviet Premier
Stalin became involved in revolutionary politics. -
Stalin Launches The First Of His Five-Year Plans
It was designed to industrialize the USSR in the shortest possible time. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Was marked the beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic. -
Dachau Opens
The first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany. -
Nuremberg Laws Pass
The Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories. -
The Spanish Civil War Begins
The military revolt against the Republican government. -
Germany Annexes The Sudetenland
Largely prepared by the Sudeten Germans. -
Kristallnacht
Night of Broken Glass. -
Austrian Anschluss
The union between Germany and Austria becoming Greater Germany. -
The Spanish Civil War Comes To An End
Franco declaring victory in a radio broadcast on the 1st April. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact Signed
Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. -
Germany Invades Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Germany Invades Norway And Denmark
The attack on Denmark and Norway was planned as a part of the German Operation Weserubung Sud. -
Germany Invades The Soviet Union
Operation Barbosa. -
Auschwitz Is Opened
Was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. -
Pearl Harbor Attacked By The Japanese
Zero planes come in and kamakzed and torpedowed U.S. boats in Hawaii. -
Battle Of Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad was known to be the turning point of the war. -
British Defeat The Germans At El Alamein
Battle fought in the deserts of North Africa. -
D-Day
Invasion of Normandy, France. -
Battle Of The Bulge
The Germans suffered more than 100,000 casualties. -
Auschwitz Is Liberated
The Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners. -
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference, meeting , at Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. -
Germany Surrenders
Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II. -
Nuremburg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice.
