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Appeasement (Chamberlain)
the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict governed Anglo-French foreign policy during the 1930s. It became indelibly associated with Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. -
Japan invades Manchuria
an explosion on a section of South Manchuria Railway, giving the Japanese army the excuse it needed to blame the local government and took control of the nearest Manchurian town of Shenyang. The league of China immediately requests the Japanese army to withdraw. -
Night of the long knives
a purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler, Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm. -
Kristallnacht
the night of November 9-10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The violence continued during the day of November 10, and in some places, acts of violence continued for several more days. -
Non Aggression Pact
the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Final solution
Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II -
Battle of Stalingrad
was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia. -
D-day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day
