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WWII Timeline Dakota berg
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Bolshevik Revolution
Bolshevik were an extreme group but werent very popular but built up support, and had later declared themselves to be a dictorship -
Paris Peace conference
Was made to establish the terms of the peace after the World War -
Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy
founded the Fascist party and got support from many war veterans and later joined the coalition government in 1921 -
Treaty of Versailles Signed
Treaty signed by allied powers about WWI and that Germany had started it -
Washington Naval Conference
International conference called by the US to limit the naval arms and to work out security agreements in the Pacific area -
Rapallo Treaty
agreement between Germany and Italy and allowed Germany to set up USSR -
Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler attempted to overthrow the government of Ebert and put in a naturalist one in its place -
Stalin comes to power in Russia
Before Lenin died he warned the public to take Stalin out of power but his allies kept quiet leading to his reign -
Dawes Act
Was passed to take Weimar Germany's economy to some form of stability -
Mein Kamph Published
Adolf Hitler's autobiography and gave an explination of what is going to hapoen to Europe -
Stock Market Crash
Brought in the Great Depression there was a boom in the 1920's leading to high peaks in the market -
Hitler conquers the rest of Czechoslovakia
Signed the Munich Pact which gave Czech to Germany -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Japanese Army attacked Chinese troops trying to gain control of the whole providence -
Ukrainian Famine
Was the result of stalins policy and had a huge affect on aggriculture of Ukrain leaving them starving without a lot of food -
First Concentration Camps
used against political opponents of Nazi policy -
Manhattan Project begins
Used to control the way bombs were made -
Hitler made chancellor of Germany
Made Germany very powerful and won majority by promising people to make them powerful -
Hitler declares himself Vice Chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany
Hindenburg lay on his death bed and Hitler took over and because the Supreme leader -
Night of Long Knives
Hitler felt his power was in jepardy and Himmler's army was stronger than Nazi Germany -
US Neutrality Acts
The US government signed a series of acts so they would be prevented from being in foreign wars -
Berlin Olympics
Adolf Hitler hid their racism to host the Olypics and show that they are peaceful and it was here to bring Germany back into the world after WWI -
Stalin begins military purges and The Great Terror
Where a lot of officers were forced to admit to treason -
Rape of Naking
Japanese army marched into the capital of China and killed 300,000 civilians and soldiers -
Hitler invades Austria
Marched into Austria in attempt to expand Nazi Germany -
Munich Conference
Hitler met with head representatives from France UK and Italy. Made a deal that Hitler could take Sudetenland as long as he took nothing else -
Hitler invades the Sudetenland
Huge move towards the expasion of Germany to take Czechoslovakia -
Krystallnacht
A series of attacks against the Jews throughout Germany and Austria -
Eienstein's letter
Didn't want to make a bomb, but didnt like what Germany and Japan were doing -
Nazi Soviet Anti-Agression Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union signed an agreement that they will not attack each other -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
The Atheria was a britain ship sunk by Germans -
Hitler invades Poland
Britain and France told Czechoslovakia to yield at Germans demand for regions -
Winter War between Finland and Russia
result of the nonagression Pact and they wouldnt accpt Russias demands which then started a war -
Defeat of French army by the Nazis
The Germans over powered France and made the government and people to flee and they had also trapped french troops -
Scandinavian wars
Germany invaded Denmark and Norway -
Nazi Occupation of Norway
They took Norway after their ships were getting dominated by British Ships -
Winston Churchill
he took power after past primeminister resigned and refused to surrender to Germany -
Desert Campaigns in Africa Begin
Campaigns fought in Libyen and Egyptian deserts by powers who had colonial interests in Africa -
Battle of Britain
Churchill gave a speech to the people telling them that France had surrendered and the battle is now in Britain -
Enigma Machine used in Britain
Nritain broke the code and managed to get German's undercover plans -
Hitler launches operation Barbarossa
3 million German troups are sent to Russia to start a war -
Pearl Harbor
Japan tried taking over China so Japan allied with Germany So America Supplied China So Japan took out the US Naval base and flew planes over and started the war with a surprize attack but they failed to take out the air base -
Battle of Midway
A US mid-Pacific base was attacked by Japan for high water mark of Japan's ocean war -
Nazi Final Solution Developed
Himmler designed a killin facility and killed 1 million Jews -
FDR signs Executive order 9066 beginning Japanese internment
ordered the removal of resident enemies alliences from parts of the military areas -
Nimitz and McArthur begin island hopping in the Pacific
objective was to avoid heavilly fortified Japanese positions and concentrate on the limited allied resources -
Operation Market garden
failed to attempt to force a way to get to Germany through the air -
D-Day
America landed on Normandy and they would except nothing but a full victory -
Battle of the Bulge
A last attempt to split the Allies in two and destroy their ability to supply themselves -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler shot himself in the head in an underground bunker right after they got defeated -
US drops atomic bomb
A plane from the US dropped an atomic bomb killng tens of thousands -
Surrender of Germany
Germany surrendered after the Soviets approached Berlin from East and the allies on the west -
US victory at Iwo Jima
an island that was won by stratige planning and the high hopes of the US in ending the war and winning -
Death of FDR
Passes away -
first successful test of atomic bomb
dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and marked the end of WWII -
Surrender of Japan
Navy and air force was dominated and they suffered great intense bombing took place leaving Japan with no other option