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Mussolini Takes Power in Italy
Rise of Mussolini and the Facist Party. -
Stalin comes to power in Russia
Soviet Dictor who takes control of Communist power after Soviet leader Lenin dies and onward through WWII until the Nazi Soviet Pact. -
US Stock Market Crashes
Launches US into Great Depression and the 1930's -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Japanese military forces occupied several positions in southern manchuria. -
Hitler is named chancellor of Germany
Launching of the Nazi Gernmany Era -
FDR Elected President
Launching of the New Deal and the plan to recovery for the Great Depression in the US -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Mussolini's plan to aquire African colonies deternmined by Hitler as German. -
Germany remilitarizes Rhineland
German preparation for war in majority of German occupied territory in Europe, also violated treaty of versailles. -
Civil War erupts in Spain
Military revolt against Republican government. Both sides fought with great ferocity. War was bloody when it began. -
Japan Seizes French Indo-China
Chinese resistance to Japanese occupation. -
Anschluss
German invasion of Austria at 5:30 AM. -
Munich Conference
Agreement forcing the Czech Republic to give the Sudetenland, which includes key military defense positions to Nazi Germany. -
Kristallnacht
Major violent German campaign to eliminate all Jews within German occupied lands. -
German occupation of Sudetenland
Slovaks declare independence and form a Slovak Republic, Germans occupy Czech lands violating Munich agreement, forcing a Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. -
Nazi Soviet Pact
Agreement between Germany and Soviet Union to cease attacks against one another and share Poland. Half goes to Germany and the other goes to the Soviet Union. -
Germany invades Poland
Official start of WWII in Europe -
"Phony" War
Period of time during WWII following the blitzkrieg attack of Poland where absolutly nothing happened or thats what many believed. Germans refer to it as the "sitting war" -
Churchill elected Prime Minister of England
Becomes Prime Minister when Neville Chamberlain steps down. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
Allied forces retreat from German occupied Europe at the very beginning of WWII. Last troops out of Europe on June 4th 1940. -
France Surrenders
German occupation of France including Paris. -
Battle of Britain
German aerial attack folowing the fall of France. -
Lend - Lease Act
Act passed allowing the US to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed need for supplies. -
Atlantic Charter
Made certain principles within national policies of respective countries known to base their hopes on a better future for the world. -
US Passes Neutrality Acf
US staying out of WWII and European conflicts. Prior to attack on Pearl Hardor December 7th 1941 -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
US is drawn into WWII.
