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Franz Ferdinand got rekt
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the AH empire declared war on Serbia -
Treaty of Versailles
Exactly 5 years after Franz Ferdinand'is death, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by the US, UK, France, Italy, & Japan (among others but that's too many to name) in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles in France. -
League of Nations
The first meeting of the newly formed League of Nations as a result of WWI -
Hitler gains power
Adolf Hitler, native Austrian, becomes leader of German Nazi party -
Railway Settlement Act
The government passed the Railway Settlement Act -
Hoover presidency
Herbert Hoover became president of the United States shortly before the stock market crash -
Stock Market Crash
On October 29th the American stock market crashed, sending the world into a terrible economic depression (one of the causes of Hitler's rise to power) -
Chancellor Hitler
Donald Trump v1.0 becomes the chancellor of Germany, representing the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische deutsche arbeiterpartei) -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a set of economic and social system set in place by FDR in an attempt to prevent future economic depressions and to lessen or escape the current depression -
Gestapo rise
The German Gestapo is officially placed above the law of the Deutschland -
Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization
A secret trial against many high commanding officers in the Red Army, part of the Great Purge -
Poland invaded
Germany invaded Poland, marking the start of WWII -
Polandland is invaded
Germany invades Poland, the catalysing action behind WWII starting -
Operation Barbarossa
Codename for the operation in which Germany attempted to invade the Soviet Union unsuccessfully -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, killing 2471 Americans and wounding 1213 Americans; act that led to America officially joining the Allied Powers in WWII and an awful Ben Affleck movie -
US joins war
4 days after Pearl Harbor, the US ofically joined WWII -
Project Manhattan
The founding of Project Manhattan, in which Little Boy, Fat Man, and Thin Man were created -
D Day
The Allied Powers invade Normandy Beach in German-occupied France, the turning point of WWII -
Gas chambers out of use
The last day that gas chambers were in use at Auschwitz -
Atomic bombs on Japan
To end the war, America dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6th and Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9th, killing between 129,000-246,000+
