-
Pairs Peace Conference
This conference took place just outside of Paris in Versailles.The purpose of this meeting was to establish terms of the peace after the World War II. The BIg Four would dominate the proceedings that led to the formation of the Treaty of Versailles. -
Nine Power Treaty
This was a treaty that formally proclaimed the principle of respect for the sovereignty,and territorial and adminsitrative integrity of China. -
Mussolini takes over Italy's government
Mussolini went into Italy and got there government to seize because he supported the fascist. -
Beer Hall Putsch
Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 was the year Hitler attempted to overthrow Weimar government of Ebert and make a right wing nationlistic one in its place. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
A treaty reanouncing that war wound be and instrument of national policy and making peaceful measures for international disputes. -
US Stock Market Crash
Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.This caused America and the rest of the world to go into the Great Depression. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria to get more natural resources to help support there expansion in militarization. -
Nazis reach a political majority in Germany
Hitler was elected by the nazis after he became chancellor every on wanted to become part of the nazis. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg named Hitler the chancellor. This marked date was a crucial turning point not only for Germany but the world.Much of the German population embraced his plan to do away with politics, and make Germany a powerful one-party state. -
Japans Withdraw from league of Nations
Japan withdrew from the Leahue of Nations because they were getting blamed from the events in Manchuria -
Rohm Purge
During a purge of major SA officials that came to be known as the “Night of the Long Knives,” Röhm was arrested. He was executed several days later. -
Nuremberg Laws
Germans were stripped of their citizenship,making the mere "subjects" of the state. With these Nuremberg Laws the discriminatory acts became embedded in the culture. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The League of Nations votes to impose deliberately ineffectual economic sanctions against Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. Even though while it was happening they did nothing. -
Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
However, just four years later, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party seized full power in Germany, promising vengeance against the Allied nations that had forced the Treaty of Versailles on the German people. In 1935, Hitler unilaterally canceled the military clauses of the treaty and in March 1936 denounced the Locarno Pact and began remilitarizing of the Rhineland. -
Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler stopped paying the Treaty of Versailles and owned many pounds over a period of 66 years. He took the money that was supposed to go to them and put it straight back into German economy. He also disregarded the arms restrictions put on Germany. He also made an alliance with Austria even when told not to. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy's foreign minister, informally linking the two fascist countries was reached October 25, 1936. It was formulized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. -
Germany Annexes Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. March 12, Hitler accompanied German troops into Austria, where enthusiastic crowds met them. Hitler appointed a new Nazi government, and on March 13 the Anschluss was proclaimed. -
Munich Conference
This was a set of long negotiations. Hitler had demanded Sudenland in Czechoslovakia. British Prime Minister tried to talk him out of it. So then Hitler threatened to take them by force. -
Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
Hitler demanded the immediate cession of the Sudetenland to Germany and the evacuation of the Czechoslovak population by the end of the month. The next day, Czechoslovakia ordered troop mobilization. War seemed imminent, and France began a partial mobilization on September 24. Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Daladier, unprepared for the outbreak of hostilities, traveled to Munich, where they gave in to Hitler's demands on September 30. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
This pact was a non-aggressive treaty between Germany and Russia. The pact also contained a secret agreement in which the Soviets and Germans agreed how they would later divide up Eastern Europe. The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact fell apart in June 1941, when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. -
Nazi invasion of Poland
The German Nazis Military invaded Poland. To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or "living space," for the German people. Poland finally surrendered to the Nazis. -
Franco becomes Dictator of Spain
The general and dictator Francisco Franco ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britian is the name given to the second world air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was under which the US supplied United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Chine, France, and other allied nations with mass amounts of war materials between 1941 to 1945, It was signed into law on 11 March, 1941. -
Operation Barbarossa
This was the code name for Germany's invasion on the Soviet Union during World War II. Over the course of the plan, about four million soildiers of the axis invaded the USSR and failed, this was the turning point for Adolf Hitler -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference consisted of senior officials of the Nazi Germans, held in the Berlin suburb Wannsee. This conference was to dicuss the next phase of war. -
Doolittle Raid
This was also known as the Tokyo Raid, was on a air raid by the US on the Japenese capital Tokyo and other places on Honushu Island. The first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to an American air attack, was pay back for bombing Pearl Harbor. -
Battle of Midway
The US Navy defeated Japanese attack against Midway atoll marking a turning point in the pacific theatre. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the south-western Soviet Union -
D-Day and Operation Overlord
Operation Overload was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the allied operation that launched the sucessful invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II. The operation commerced with Normandy landings. A 1,200-plane airbourne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving over 5,000 vessels.Around 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel , and more than three million allied troops were in France by the end of August. -
Operation Valkyire
As the bomb went off, Stauffenberg was making his way to Berlin to carry out Operation Valkyrie, the overthrow of the central government. In Berlin, he and co-conspirator General Olbricht arrested the commander of the reserve army, General Fromm, and began issuing orders for the commandeering of various government buildings. And then the news came through from Herman Goering—Hitler was alive. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler was found dead in a private bunker in the town of Berlin. He killed himself by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. -
V-E Day
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Little Boy Dropped
Little Boy Dropped was the code name for the aromic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. -
Fat Man Dropped
Fat Man Dropped was the code name for a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender -
V-J Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes of war, to crimes against humanity. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II. On November 4, 1948, the trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty.
