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was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd.
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The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms
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was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers
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the first arms control conference in history
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between Germany and Russia under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other
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ruled as a dictator from 1922 to 1943
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Political breakthrough that saw an end to Britain's seclusion, the alliance was renewed and expanded twice, in 1905 and 1911, before its demise in 1923.
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Afailed attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler to seize power in Munich, Bavaria
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He managed to gain power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin
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formulated to take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflation and to return Weimar’s economy to some form of stability
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An autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany
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The values dropped in the stocks, people took their money out of the banks, and it hit rock bottom
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Work on the Maginot Line proper started in 1930 when the French government gave a grant of 3 billion dollars. The work continued until 1940
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Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident.
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affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, leading to the deaths of millions in those areas and severe food insecurity throughout the USSR.
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Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg.
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President Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler leader, as chancellor of Germany.
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The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor
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purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders.
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Intended to prevent the U.S. from being drawn into a war in the 1930’s
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campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union
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An international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
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Mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War
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Hitler turned his attention to the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
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representatives of France, Britain, Italy and Germany met at Munich to discuss the Sudetenland problem. Hitler traded the promise of peace in Europe for the Sudetenland. The Czechs had to either accept or face the might of the German army alone. They accepted.
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A pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria
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German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia
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The Poles managed to reconstruct an Enigma machine, complete with internal wiring, to read the German forces’ messages between 1933 and 1938
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A warning to President Roosevelt of the possibility of constructing "extremely powerful bombs of a new type" with hints that the German government might be doing just that
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Hitler made the Nazi-Soviet pact with Stalin. This was a promise not to go to war with each other, and a secret promise to invade Poland.
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Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II
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In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany
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A military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland . It began with Soviet invasion of Finland and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty.
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Campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts
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The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany started with the German invasion of Norway
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After planning for months, Germany invaded both Denmark and Norway the same day
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The successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries
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In May 1940, Neville Chamberlain resigned as prime minister and Churchill took his place.
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"Air battle for England" is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom
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The code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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A solution that startedto "end" the Jews.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan brought the United States into World War II
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FDR singed an order that allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded."
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American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands.
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General MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz seized the initiative, launching an ‘Island Hopping’ campaign.
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Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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An unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War
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Von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise
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The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War
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Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol
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The first Instrument of Surrender was signed at Reims, at 02:41 Central European Time
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The United States conducts the first test of the atomic bomb at at the Trinity bomb site in central New Mexico.
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The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II
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The surrender of the Empire of Japan brought the hostilities of World War II to a close.
