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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
The Great Depression begins
The stock market crash started the great depression. The great depression was worldwide. -
Hitler became leader
Hitler was named chancellor of germany. -
Mussolini invaded Ethiopia
The Italians, fighting with modern weapons against poorly equipped
Ethiopians, conquered this African nation that same year. -
Kristallnacht
Violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. -
Germans invaded poland
German tanks rolled into Poland and began WW2. -
Germans enter paris
German flag flew over paris and started a war there. -
D-Day
Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing. -
President Roosevelt Died
President Roosevelt, having suffered years of
medical complications, had died suddenly. -
atomic weapon on Hiroshima
American airplane named the Enola Gay dropped
the atomic weapon on Hiroshima. -
End of WW2
Japan announced that it would end the fighting, and signed the articles of surrender and then World War II was over. -
Nuremberg War Crimes trials begin
a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II.
