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Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms by signing the Treaty of Versailles. -
Nine Power Treaty
Was a treaty signed by China and the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands, who agreed to respect the sovereignty, independence, and territorial and administrative integrity of China. -
Mussolini takes over Italy's Government
Mussolini led the Fascists on a march on Rome, and King Emmanuel III, asked Mussolini to form a new government. -
Beer Hall Putsch
Also known as the Munich Putsch, was Hitler's attempt to overthrow the Weimer government of President Ebert -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
International agreement in which signtory states such as the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, and a number of other states. prormised not to use war to resolve disputs or conflicts -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
As investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday the rest of the industrailized world spirared into depression -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan was becoming increasingly crowded due to its limited size as a nation and its rapidly increasing population. Manchuria offered nearly 200,000 square kilometres which, as part of a Japanese empire, would easily accommodate any over-spilling population. The Japanese people had a very low opinion of the Chinese and also knew the area was rich wilth minerals and resources. -
Nazis reach a political majority in Germnay
They saw great gains by the Nazi Party, which for the first time became the largest party in parliament, though without winning a majority. With the Communists remaining strong, anti-republican parties together now had a majority in the Reichstag -
Hitler is appointed Germany's Chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Hitler channeled popular discontent with the post-war Weimar government into support for his fledgling Nazi Party. -
Japan withdraws from the League of Nations
The Japanese delegation withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly afer the assembly had adopted an unanimous report (42-1, with only Japan opposing) blaming Japan for the Invasion of Manchuria. -
Rohm Purge
The Nazi leaders took advantage of the purge to kill other political enemies, primarily on the German nationalist right. Known as the “Night of the Long Knives”. This enabled Hitler to proclaim himself the absoulute power. -
Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler returned to Berlin and he immediately organized a Cabinet meeting and also assembled members of the Army's General Staff. He then announced a major decision he had just come to, Germany would defy the military limitations set by the Treaty of Versailles and re-arm. -
Nuremberg Laws
These were anti-Jewish statutes enacyed by Germany. Marking a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing Jewish influences from Aryan society.These laws, on which the rest of Nazi racial policy hung, were written hastily. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia was one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia. -
Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
Hitler ordered that his troops should openly re-enter the Rhineland, breaking the terms of Versailles once again. He did order his generals that the military should retreat out of the Rhineland if the French showed the slightest hint of making a military stand against him. -
Franco becomes Dictator of Spain
He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Coalition formed between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries. The term Axis Powers came to include Japan as well. -
Germany Annexes Austria
Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into the German Third Reich was enthusiastically welcomed by a significant majority of the Austrian population, which spelled the doom of the country's Jewish population. -
Munich Conference
It was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. All major powers of Europe were present. -
Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
It began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known as the Sudetenland, The incorporation of the Sudetenland into Nazi Germany left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak and it became powerless to resist occupation. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Named after the two foreign ministers who negotiated the agreement. It stated that Germany would exchange manufactured goods for Soviet raw materials, and promised notto attack eachother. -
Nazi invasion of Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF(Royal Air Force). Their ultimate failure was one of the turning points of World War Two and prevented Germany from invading Britain. -
Lend Lease Act
It was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials. Britain, the Soviet Union, China, Brazil, and many other countries received weapons under this law. -
Operation Barbarossa
Was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.This was a crucial turning point in World War II, for its failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. -
Peral Harbor Bombing
Early in the morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration. -
Wannsee Conference
On this day, Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question." Where most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and exterminated. -
Doolittle Raid
Was also known as the Tokyo Raid, it was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. -
Battle of Midway
The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush, causing permanent damage on the Japanease Navy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd). It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. It was one of the bloodiest battles in history killing nearly 2 million. -
D-Day and Operation Overlord
American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. Northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. -
Operation Valkyrie
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, an aristocratic colonel in the Nazi army, took the fate of the German people into his own hands, he plotted to assassinate the dictator and seize the reins of power. The plan failed, Hitler surivived and Stauffenberg among many other plan makers were excecuted. -
Battle of the Bulge
It was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region on the Western Front toawrd the end of WWII. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
Hitler moved into his Führerbunker bunker in Berlin where there he committed suicide by gunshot. His wife also committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. This ended Hitler's dreams of a "1,000-year" Reich. -
V-E Day
It marked the formal end of Hitler's war. With it came the end of six years of misery, suffering, courage and endurance across the world.The Third Reich of Nazi Germany was defeated and millions of people were killed. -
Little Boy Dropped
Little Boy was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb used as a weapon and was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history. -
Fat Man Dropped
"Fat Man" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. It was the second of only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare. Its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion. -
V-J Day
It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. -
Nuremberg Trials
These were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. They were a series of 13 trials and are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
These trials were to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of war crimes. "Class A" those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war, "Class B" those who committed crimes against humanity, "Class C" those who ahd to deal with planning or organizing crimes.
