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Treaty of Versailles is signed
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War l. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Washington Naval Conference
The Washington Naval Conference was a military conference called by U.S. President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington, D.C. from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. -
Mussolini becomes prime minister
Mussolini becomes priminister in 1922 and he was the youngest Prime Ministere in Italian history at that time. -
Beer Hall Putsch
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in attempted coup d'état which came to be known as the Beer Hall Putsch. -
The Death of Lenin
Vladimir Lenin died in 1924 due to a stroke. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan was created in 1924 to solve the WW1 reparations problem, which had created tenion beween Germany and other countries after the end of WW1 and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. -
Mein Kampf published
This was Volume One of Adolf Hitler's autobiographies. It included his philosophies. -
Hirohito Becomes Emperor
He was Japan's longest-reigining emperor. -
The First Five-Year Plan
Joseph Stalin launches the first Five-Year Plan. -
Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash was the U.S. Stock Market crash. It precipitated a world-wide collapse of share values and triggered the Great Depression. -
Dachau built
Just 2 months after Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany, he builds the first Nazi concentration camp in Dacahu, which was a town tha was just outside of Munich. -
first neutrality act is passed
On August 31, 1935, Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license. -
Signing of the Roman Rome-Berlin Axis
It was a coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. -
Signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact
The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan -
Hitler declares Austria as part of Third Reich
On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. -
The Munich Conference is called
The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it. -
German troops invade Czechoslovakia
German troops invade Czechoslovakia. -
Mussolini invades Albania
The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. -
German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact Signed
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a ten-year non-aggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which each signatory promised not to attack the other. -
Germany attacks Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Soviet Union attacks Finland
After months of ultimatums, on November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland -
Germans invade Denmark and Norway
On this day in History, Germany invades Norway and Denmark on Apr 09, 1940. -
Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister of GB
Winston Churchill is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister. -
Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
This was known as the Battle of Netherlands and it started on May 10, 1940 -
Dunkerque is evacuated
Dunkirk, and the evacuation associated with the troops trapped on Dunkirk, was called a “miracle” by Winston Churchill. -
Mussolini declares war on France + GB
On this day in 1940, after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a struggle between the German Luftwaffe (commanded by Hermaan Göring) and the British Royal Air force (headed by Sir Hugh Dowding's Fighter Command) which raged over Britain between July and October 1940. -
Japan forms an alliance w/ Germany + Italy
Japan forms an alliance with Germany and Italy. -
Erwin Rommel takes control of Libya
On this day, German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, Libya, with the newly formed Afrika Korps, to reinforce the beleaguered Italians’ position. -
Germany attacks the Soviet Union
This was the turning point in the Nazis' plan to solve the "Jewish problem." Hitler considered the invasion of the USSR as part of his plan to provide the German nation with “living space” (Lebensraum) and an opportunity to destroy Communism, which he loathed. -
Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. -
Pearl Harbor is attacked
President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. -
US Congress declares war on Japan
This was due to the attack of Pearl Harbor. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was when the Japanese forced 76,000 captured Allied soldiers (Filipinos and Americans) to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula. The march took place in April of 1942 during World War II. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
MacArthur lands in the Phillippines
On October 20, 1944, a few hours after his troops landed, MacArthur waded ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Postdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
V-J Day
On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day.
