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End of WWI
-Treaty of Versailles puts blame of WWI on Germany; Germany's territory split, could not build up its army, forced to take complete blame and pay reparations for the war
-Wilson warns about the Treaty of Versailles potential leading to another war -
Hitler Joins Nazi Party
-Hitler joins Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party after WWI, to which he became the leader of, and created Nazism (German form of fascism) -
Fascist Party establlished under Mussolini in Italy
-Fascism stresses nationalism, placing interests of the state above individuals, and led by a single leader with a small group of party members -
USSR Established
-civil war in Russia led to establishment of a communist state, known as the Soviet Union -
Mussolini takes over Italy
-Mussolini marched into Rome with the "Black Shirts"
-Italian king appointed Mussolini head of government -
Joseph Stalin takes control of USSR
-Stalin takes control after the death of Vladimir Lenin
-death of 8-13 million Russians
-made agriculture and industrial growth prime economic goals -
62 Countries sign Kellogg-briand Pact
-declared war would not be used "as an instrument of national policy" -
Japan invades Manchuria
-provoked by a belief in "more living space for a growing population"
-Japanese troops gained control over Manchuria's natural resources -
Roosevelt Takes Office
-Roosevelt runs for 4 terms during WWII, but does not live to see the end of the war -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
-dismantles the Weimar Republic and establishes the "Third Reich" -
Neutrality Acts Passed
-outlawed arms sales and loans to nations at war, or engaged in civil war -
Hitler begins military buildup
-against Treaty of Versailles
-Hitler pulls Germany out of League of Nations, who did nothing to stop Hitler's military power -
Civil War begins in Spain
-Francisco Franco and his army officers rebell against Spanish Republic
-Hitler and Mussolini back Franco, leading to Franco's victory -
German troops invade Rhineland
-German region bordering France and Belgium
-League of Nations did nothing to stop Hitler -
Italian troops take over Ethiopia
-Mussolini expands a new empire
-League of Nations did nothing effective to stop the invasion -
Hitler announces secret plans for lebensraum
-the idea of more "living space"
-Hitler plans to take all German-speaking countries -
Hitler takes Austria
-German troops unopposed, and Austria was taken in one day
-Again, the League of Nations did nothing -
Munich Agreement
-permitted annexation of Czechoslovakia to Germany
-agreement between Germany, France, and Great Britain -
Totalitarian government established in USSR
-individuals have no rights
-government suppresses all opposition
-Stalin tries to exert complete control over all citizens -
Russia invades Finland
-Russia takes territory after the nonaggression pact, as Germany expands its own territories -
Czechoslovakia falls to Hitler
-without a shot being fired, Czechoslovakia is handed over to Hitler by the Munich agreement -
Non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia
-between Hitler and Stalin
-Russia and Germany agree to not attack each other, as well as secretly agree to divide Poland -
Germany invades Poland
-used new military strategy of blitzkrieg (lightning war) to overwhelm Poland
-beginning of WWII -
Battle of Britain begins
-air war over Great Britain
-British pilots succesfully fight back with the use of radar -
Germany takes Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
-taken after Denmark and Norway
-marked the end of the phony war -
British and French defeated at Dunkirk
-marked fall of France
-British and French soldiers were trapped against the English Channel; 330,000 ferried to safety to England -
Italy enters the war on German side
-invaded France from the south while Germans invaded from the North, taking France -
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
-surprise invasion after the phony war
-Hitler gained control of the coast to strike at Great Britain -
France surrenders to Germany
-Nazi-controlled puppet government set up in France
-Charles de Gaulle set up a government-in-exile in England: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war."
