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The great depresion starts in America
The great depresion starts in america due to a stock market crash known as black tuesday. This causes unemployment to skyrocket and causes many americans to lose all the money they had in the stock market and bank. -
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WW2
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Hitler comes into power
Hitler and his nazi party gain 37% of the vote in the 1932 election. This makes them the largest party in german parlement. And hitler becomes president. -
Night of Broken Glass
A massive attack on jews in the german riche carried out in a cordenated fashion. There were widespread riots and protests. Many bricks were throun into shops owned by jews (breakig the glass) giving it the nickname. -
Nazi Soviet non agression pact
In august 1939 the soviets and nazis singed a pact saying that they would not attack each other and would insted work together to take poland and then split the country between them. -
German invasion of poland
Due to the pact between germany and the USSR the germans were able to invade withour fear of soviet intervintion. With the use of the new blitzcrieg tactic germany took the country in weeks. -
blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg or "lightning war" is a millitary tactic created by nazi germany and was first used when invading poland. In an atempt to avoid the stalemate of trench warfare the blitzkrieg was highly moble and centered around concentrate firepower. -
Lend Lease act
The lend lease act was created by UK prime minister Winston Churchill that allowed him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States. In turn the US started to help the UK by supling them. -
Pearl Harbor
On Dec 7, 1941 the imperial japenese navy atacked a american naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawai. This crippled the american passific fleat and drew america into the war. -
D-Day
D-Day (codename: Operation Overlord) was an alied invation of nazi ocupied france that gave the allies a foothold in western erope. With the USSR on the eastern front and the marching onslaught of alied solders on the west. Germanys fate was sealed. -
Yalta Conferece
The Yalta Conferece was a onferece held by UK prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was ment to create a plan for a post war world and what to do with germany -
VE Day
Victory in Europe day was on may 8th 1945. It celibrated the axis/german defeat in Europe and the alied victory. The war in Europe and fasist rule was over. -
Hiroshima
Hiroshima was the first targeted japenise city to have a atomic bomb droped on it. The atack devistated japan and vaperised nearly the entire city. -
Nagasaki
Nagasaki was the second japenese city to be atacked with atomic wepon by the americans. After this atack the japenese finally surendered officaly ending the war. -
Establishment of the United Nations
Being the spiertual sucsesser to the luge of nations it was desinged to be able to solve world probloms peacefully to avoyed insted of using violence and wars.
