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Adolf hitlers rise to power in germany
adolf hitler was a jobless drifting soldier after ww1 ad then joined the nazis and later came to be the leader of germany. -
mein kampf
Hitlers book about his struggle with the nazis rising to power. -
Joseph stalins totalitarian Gov in the soviet union
Stalin came to power and wanted a powerful industrial country. He changed famly owned farms into great industrial farms owned by hundreds of families. -
Japanese invasion of manchuria
japanese nationalists seized control of the manchurian province in china. -
Storm troopers
many unemployed men joined hitlers private army whch was called storm troopers or brown shirts. -
Hitlers military build up in germany.
hitlers millitary build up violated the treaty of versailles withdrew himself from league of nations. -
mussilinis invasion of ethiopia
league of nations responded to this by brae talk of collevtive resistance to all acts unprovoked aggresion. inafective it was and ethiopia fell by 1936 -
hitlers invasion on rhineland
A year after hitler as out of league of nations he sent troops into rhineland german territory boarding france and belgium the league did nothing o stop hitler. -
Francisco franco
group of rebells lead by francisco fraco and they broke out the spanish civil war. -
hitlers anschluss
that germanys union with austria was complete.the U.S. and rest of the world did nothing. -
Munich agreement
munich agrrement signed over the sudentenland over to germany without a shot being fired. -
rome berlin axis
close relationship with berlin and italian dictators. -
phony war
after the fall of poland the forces on both sides sat staring at each other and some called this the phony war. -
nonagression pact
as tensions rose in poland stalin signed a nonagression pact to never attack germany. -
blitzkreig
as the day broke germany dropped bombs on millitary bases and railroads and at the same tie sent tanks country ide and this was the firs act of the blitzkreig act -
Britain and France declare war on germany
declared war on germany but the fighting was over i 3 weeks before they could do anything and ww2 had begun. -
hitlers invasian or norrway and denmark
hitler launched a surprise attack on nor way and denmark. in oreder to protect those coumtries freedom and independence. -
hitlers invasian or netherlands
hitler turned against the netherlands and belgium and luxemburg which were over run by the end of may. -
germany and itals invasion of france
the german went through a pass that the french thought was mpassible but then the germans trapped 400000 british and frnech soldiers who the fle to tug boats to get across a channe of water. -
marshal phillipe petain
he got set up by vichy in southern france by puppet government nazis ran. -
battle of britain
germans started to assemble an invasion fleet among the french coast because it couldnt compete with the naval force of britain it also launched an air attack. -
pearl harbor attack
180 japanese war palines flew over pearl harbor blasting targets with no disruption from amerivcan anti aircraft missiles. less than 2 hours japanese killed 2403 americans and wounded 1178 more. -
battle of th atlantic
hitler ordered war subs along the pacific coast and 3000 miles of trade were america lifeline. allies had organized cargo ships into convoys and hey escoted ships across atlantic. -
battle of stalin gaurd
germany confidently approached staligrd and were saying the end was not far but winter made the starving cold germans surrender in 19442 sept. -
convoy system
convoys escorted by destroyers were making their way across atlantic. -
unconditional surrender
churchill and roosevelt and their comanders met in casablana and at thsi meeting two axis powers accepted their unconditional surrenders. -
bloody anzio
this battle was one of the hardest and lasted 4 months and had about 25000 allied and 30000 axis powers dead. -
D-Day
eisenhower had a massive army that was secret and was ready to attack normandy northern france but got delayed but attacked june 6th 1944 and the axis germany was brutal in a fight back -
Battle of bulge
tanks drove 60 miles into the lines making a bulge giving this last battle its name. -
harry s. trueman
president roosevelt had a stroke and died so harry s trueman became 33rd president of the usa -
death of hitler
hitler married his ife companion and wrote his last in german and then killed himself while his wife swallowed poison. -
v-e day
Victory in europe day was celebrated in europe war in europe was over. -
Benito mussilinisfacist gov in italy
he placed the issues of government over thosof individuals with his facist government. strong single leaders and ac oupe of devoted leaders. -
third reich
Thousand year rich was what hitler believd to be the thirty year of riches.
