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Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany
He followed a path to power similar to Mussolini's. In 1919, he joined a struggling group called the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi Party. Hitler proved to be such a powerful public speaker and organizer that he quickly became the party's leader. -
Mein Kampf
Its Adolf's book, he set forth the basic beliefs of Nazism that became the plan of action for the Nazi Party. -
Benito Mussolini's facist government in Italy
Benito Mussolini was establishing a totalitarian regime in Italy, where unemployment and inflation produced bitter strikes, some communist-led. By 1921, Mussolini had established the Fasvist Party. Fascism stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of individuals. To strengthen the nation, they argued, power must rest with a single strong leader and a small of devoted party members. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
the militarists launched a suprise attack and seized control of it in 1931. Within several months, Japanese troops controlled the entire province, a large region about twice the size of Texas, That was rich in natural resources. -
Storm Troopers
Hitlers private army -
Third Reich
Hitler was appointed prime minister. Once in power, Hitler quickly dismantled Germany's democratic Weimar Republic. The Third Reich would be a " thousand-Year Reich" it would last for a thousand years. -
Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia
by 1935, tens of thousand of Italian soldiers stood ready to advance on Ethiopia. The league of Nations reacted with brave talk of " collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression " -
Rome-Berlin Axis
The soviet Union sent equipment and advisers, Hitler and Mussolini backed Franco's forces with troops, weapons, tanks, and fighter planes. The war forged a close relationship between the German and Italian dictators, who signed a formal alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis -
Hitler's Military build-up in Germany
in 1933, Hitler pulled Germany out of the league. He began a military buildup in violation of the Treaty of Versailles -
Hitlers invades the Rhineland
Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, A german region bordering France and Belgium that was demilitarized as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. The league did nothing to stop Hitler -
Francisco Franco
A group of Spanish army officers led by General Grancisco Franco, rebelled against the Spanish republic. Revolts broke out all over Spain, and the Spanish Civil war began. -
Hitlers Anschluss
The majority of Austria's 6 milliomn people were germans who favored unification with Germany. On march 12, 1938, German troops marched into Austria unopposed. A day later, Germany announced that its Anschluss or " union," with Austria was complete. The united states and the rest of the world did nothing. -
Munich Agreement
Hitler invited French premier Edouard Daladier and British prime minister Neville Chamberlain to meet with him in Munich. When they arrived, the fuhrer declared that the annexation of the Sudetenland would be his "last territorial deman." In their eagerness to avoid war, Dladier and Chamberlain chose to believe him. -
Nonagression pact
As tensions rose over Poland, Stalin surprised everyone by signing a nonaggression pact with Hitler. Fascist Germany and communist Russia now committed never to attack each other. -
Blitzkreig
The German air force, roared over Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities. At the same time, German tanks raced across the Polish countryside, spreading terror and confusion. This invasion was the first test of Germany's newest military strategy, The blitzkrieg, or lightning war, -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
two days following the terror in Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. -
Phony war
For the next several months. After the fall of Poland, French and British troops on the Maginot line, a system of forifications built along France's eastern border, sat starting into Germany, waiting for something to happen. On the siegfried line a few miles away Germany troops stared back. The blitzkreig had given way to what the Germans called the sitzkreig, and what some news papers referred to as the phony war -
Hitler's invasion of Genmark and Norway
Hitler launched a surprise invasion on Denmark and Norway in order "to protect those countries freedom and independence." But in truth, Hitler planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain. Next, Hitler turned against the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, which were overrun by the end of May. The phony war had ended. -
Hitlers invasion of the netherlands
Hitler turned against the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, which were overrun by the end of May -
Germany and Italy's invasin on France
The German offensive trapped almost 400,000 British and French soldiers as they fled to the beaches of Dunkirk on the French side of the English Channel. In less than a week, a makeshift fleet of fishing trawlers, tugboats, river barges, pleasure craft. A few days later, Italy entered the war on the sade of Germany and invaded France from the south as the Germans closed in on paris from the North. -
Marshal philippe Petain
at Compiegne, as William Shirer and the rest of the world watched, Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender. Germans would occupy the northern part of France, and a Nazi-controlled puppet governemtn, headed by Marshal Phillipe Petain, would be set up at Vichy, in southern France. -
The Battle of Britain
The Germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast. Because its naval power could not compete with that of Britain, Germany also launched an air war at the same time. The luftwaffe began making bombing runs over Britain. Its goal was to gain total control of the skies by destroying Britain's Royal Air Force. Hitler had 2600 plans at his disposal -
U.S. Convoy system
convoys were groups of ships traveling together for mutual protection, as they had done in the first world war.they were escorted across the atlantic by destroyers eqqupied with sonar for detecting submarines underwater. -
battle of stalingrad
the cold had stopped them in their tracks outside the Soviet cities of Moscow and Leningrad. when spring came, the german tanks were ready to roll. -
Pearl Harbor attack
Ajapanese dive-bomber swooped low over Pearl Harbor--- the largest U.S naval base in the pacific. The bomber was followed by more than 180 japanese warplanes launched from sic aircraft carriers. -
Battle of the atlantic
Hitler ordered submarine raids against ships along America's east coast. The german aim in the battle of the atlantic was to prevent food and war materials from teaching great britain and the Soviet Union. Britain depended on supplies from the sea. The 3000 mile long shipping lanes from north america were her lifeline. Hitler knew that if eh cut that lifeline, Britain would be starved into submission -
D-Day
under eisenhowers direction in England, the allies gathered a force of nearly 3 million British, american and canadian troops, together with mountains of military equpiment and supplies. eisenhower planned to attack Normandy in northern France. -
The Battle of The Bulge
Americans captured their first german town, Aachen.
hitler responded with a desperate late-gasp offensive. He ordered his troops to break through the allied ines and to recapture the Belgian port of Antwerp -
Harry S. Truman
after president roosevelts death, vice president Harry S. Truman became the nations 33rd president. -
Death of Hitler
He shot himself while his new wife swallowed poison. their bodies were burned. -
Unconditional Surrender
the soviet army had stormed Berlin. as soviet shells bust overhead,the city panicked. ''hordes of soldiers stationed in Berlin deserted and were on the spot or hanged from the nearest tree." -
V-E day
Victory in europe Day, the war was finally over. -
Joseph Stalin's totalitarian government in the Soviet Union
the Soviet Union had become the world's second largest industrial power, surpassed in overall production only by the U.S. It tried to exert complete control over its citizens. In a totalitarian state, individuals have no rights, and the government suppresses all opposition
