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Start of Soviet Union
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The Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic was a republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government. It was named after the city where th constitutional assembly took place. Weimar. -
Versailles Treaty
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace agreement signed after World War One ended in 1918. The treaty was signed at Versailles Palace near Paris. The three most important leaders there were David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson. -
Stalin gains power
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. The Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society to a industrial and military superpower. He ruled by terror. He was born into poverty. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest economic downfall in the history of the Western world. The depression soon began after the crash of the stock market in 1929. In 1933 about 13-15 million Americans were unemployed. This was important becase it left many Americans hungry everyday. Left many small business to close not giving people opprotunity for employment. One out of every four Americans were unemployed. -
Japan's nvasion of Manchuria
In the 1930s, the Japanese wanted to extend their empire. In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway and attacked the Chinese army. The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria
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Hitler becomes Chancellor
1932 had seen Hitlers ideas and promises as a way to save Germany. The German people were frusterated with the economic conditions they were left with after WWI. Hitler got the Weimar Gobernment into support for his "Nazi Party". He was know as a good speaker. In 1932 the Nazis won 230 goverment seats they made up half of the Reichstag. Voting Hitler into power. -
Reichstag Fire
The Reichstag fire was blamed on the Communitsts they are known for starting it. This is what Hitler wanted because it allowed his cohorts to transform Germany from a Democracy to a dictatorship. This is important becasue this allowed Hitler to become dictator easily. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were two laws that excluded Jews from German life and it took away their naural rights. They were introducted in Nuremberg in 1935. Here, Hitler gave a speach about the Jewish controversey to unite party activists and state officials to deal with the Jewish "issue". On September 15, 1935 the two laws were approved. This is important because this gave the the German people opprotunity to see Jewish people as not human. This created genocide in Germany killing 13 million Jews. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
The Italian invasion of Ethiopia was a brief colonial war that is remembered in history as the second Italo-Abyssinian war. Mussolini who was the leader of Italy had his eye set on Ethiopia into Italy’s newly created colony of East Africa. Although the Italian military was successful in occupying Ethiopia the Abyssinians did not surrender to the Italian forces.This is important because it showed ineffectiveness of the league of nations. -
Sudetenland
When Germany had Czechoslovakia it began with the Nazi taking over Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions known as Sudetenland, under terms by the Munich Agreement. Hitler's end for this effort was privations suffered by Getting the land in 1938 was Hitlers next goal. The land belonged to Germany until the end of World War Two. This is important because Hitler kept taking land from countries and other countries were not doing anything about it. -
Munich Conference
Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leader of Great Britian, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovlkia. When Hitler would not
back down he extended his demands, Countries decided on a
policy of "appeasement".Hitler encourages Poland and Hungary to take parts of the territory. Poland was Germanys next taget to expand Germany invading Poland which started WWII. -
Beer Hall Putsch, Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler is sentenced for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch on November 8, 1923. This was the attempt in Munich by rught-wing members, members of the Nazi Party, and members in the army. This was foiled bu the government,and Hitler was charged with high treason. He got out of jail by the end of the year he was more popular then ever. This is important because he Hitler gained much more popularity from coming at of jail electing him as president. -
Kristallnacht
This was when anti-Jewish pogroms took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia that were occupied by German troops. This is important because this a polish jew named Herschel Grynszpan shot the diplomat. This gave German troops to expell Polish-Jews living in Germany. -
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Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
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Invasion of Poland
On this day in 1939, Germany invades Poland because Adolf Hitler wanted his lost territory back to and ultimately rule Poland. This is important becauWorld War II had begun. This invasion was the spark of world war two, -
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Mussoini takes over
In July 1943 troops landed in Sicily. Mussolini was overthrown and imprisoned by his former colleagues in the Fascist government. In September Italy signed an armistice with the Allies. The German army began the occupation of Italy and Mussolini was rescued by Germany. He was installed as the leader of a new government, but had little power. As the Allies advanced northwards through Italy, Mussolini went towards Switzerland. He was captured by Italian partisans and shot on April 28th 1945.
