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WWII Timeline
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Mussolini establishes the Fascist party in Italy.
The PNF was instrumental in directing and popularizing support for Mussolini's ideology. In the early years, groups within the PNF called blackshirts built a base of power by violently attacking socialists and their institutions in the rural Po Valley, thereby gaining the support of landowners. -
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Satlin's Five-Year Plan
Stalin's Five-Year plan for economic reform in the Soviet Union. -
Kellog-Briand Pact
International agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japn invades Manchuria to secure land and resources for the empire. -
Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland
In violation of the Treaty of Versailles Germany puts troops in the Rhineland between Germany and France. -
Rome-Berlin Axis Pact
The alleigance of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy begins. -
Quarantine Speech
FDR calls for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time. -
The USS Panay is sunk by the Japanese
The Japanese claiming they did not see the American flags painted on the boat sunk it in the Yangtze River. -
The Munich Pact
An agreement between Britain, France, Italy, and Nazi Germany to give the Sudentland to Nazi Germany as an attempt at appeasment. -
Kristallnacht
An assault on the Jewish Faith in germany and parts of Austria by Paramilitary groups and non Jewish citizens. -
German conquers Austria and Czechoslovakia with no resistance
On this day Germany conquered all of Czechoslovakia. Not long before Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss. -
Nonagression Pact
The pact's publicly stated intentions were a guarantee of non-belligerence by either party towards the other, and a commitment that neither party would ally with or aid an enemy of the other party. -
First Blitzkrieg
Blitzkreig is a military tactic used by the German military. It involves attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, and heavily backed up by close air support, forces a breakthrough into the enemy's line of defense through a series of short, fast, powerful attacks; and once in the enemy's territory, proceeds to dislocate them using speed and surprise, and then encircle them. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
The Miracle of Dunkirk was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France. The operation became necessary when large numbers of British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France in the Second World War. -
France Falls
Germamy conquers france gaining Fascist control over all of western mainland Europe. All that is left is the United Kingdom. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the United states lending and leasing old military hardware to the Allied powers. -
Atlantic Charter
Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was between Winston Churchill and FDR. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese launch a surprise attack against the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii attempting to scare the US from joining the War. The plan backfires as it is this event that brings on the fence people down to the war side thereby launching us into the war.
