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Mussolini takes over Italy
After a telegram message was received from King Vittorio Emmanuele III, Mussolini boarded a train to Rome where he was given control over Italy. -
Stalin comes to power in Russia
Stalin was the leader of the USSR. The Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. -
US stock market crash
The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, The depression was all over the world and it also helped the Nazi's raise to power. -
Adolf Hitler as the chancellor of Germany
Hindenburg reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor after two parliamentary elections had not resulted in the formation of a majority government. Hitler's aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
the Japanese staged an incident along the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway near Mukden . After blowing up a section of track, the Japanese blamed the attack on the local Chinese garrison. Using the "Mukden Bridge Incident" as a pretext, Japanese troops flooded into Manchuria. -
FDR 32nd President of USA
Roosevelt and his military advisers implemented a war strategy with the objectives of halting the German advances in the Soviet Union and in North Africa, launching an invasion of western Europe with the aim of crushing Nazi Germany between two fronts and saving China and defeating Japan. -
US passes Neutrality Act
It was signed by FDR in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa -
Remilitarization of Rhineland
This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. -
Spanish Civil War
The war increased tensions in the lead-up to World War II and was largely seen as a possible war by proxy between the Communist Soviet Union and the Fascist Axis of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. -
Anschluss
It was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938 because the people of Austria considered themselves to be German and many of them were nationalists. -
The Munich Conference
Settlement reached by Germany, France, Britain, and Italy permitting German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. Adolf Hitler's threats to occupy the German-populated part of Czechoslovakia stemmed from his avowed broader goal of reuniting Europe's German-populated areas. -
Germany occupies Sudetenland
It was part of Czechoslovakia whose majority population was of German ancestery. This secession of territory came as a result of the Munich Agreement, a treaty signed by Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Intended to avert a war on the European continent. -
Kristallnacht
The Nazis used Kristallnacht as an opportunity to proceed with the total exclusion of Jews from society and the removal of their remaining freedom. -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Pact was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union wherein the two countries pledged not attack each other. -
Germany invades Poland
The British told Germany they have no rights to invade these countries, but Hitler used harsh limitation such as the Versailles Treaty as a pretext for Germany's right to acquire land where German-speaking people lived. -
The "Phoney War"
The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German Reich. -
Chruchill- Prime Minister of England
After the outbreak of the Second World War on 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany, Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the War Cabinet. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
The evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France because the British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk in the Second World War. -
France surrenders
The French army suffered a death toll of 60,000, including an infantry division completely crushed while protecting the reimbarkment of the British Expeditionary Force in the pocket of Dunkirk. The French signed the armistice on 22 June 1940 at Compiegne. -
Battle of Britain
The Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Japanese invasion on French Indo-China
It was a move by the Empire of Japan to prevent China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina, via the Sino-Vietnamese Railway from the port of Haiphong through Hanoi to Kunming in Yunnan. -
The Lend Lease Act
The program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. -
The Atlantic Charter
A pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
