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Mussolini Takes Power in Italy
He became Prime Minister of Italy, then in 1925 he began using the title "II Duce", -
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1922-1947
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US Stock Market Crashes
Stock market reaches an all time low. The crash signaled the beginning of the 12 year depression -
Japan Seizes Manchuria
Japan wanted to prove themselves a worldwide power and expand. -
FDR Elected President
Defeated Herbert Hoover in election, and was very popular among people and known for his efforts to get out of the great depression. -
Hitler Chancellor of Germany
Nazis were most powerful party in the nation. Hitler now moved to establish himself as a totalitarian dictator. -
US Neutrality Act
Stated the US was isolationsit and was not getting involved with the war efforts in Europe. -
Italy Invades Etheopia
Italy had past conflicts with Etheopia, Italian efforts to establish a colony there in the late 1800s had ended up crushing military defeat at the hands of the Ethiopians. -
Hitler Defies Treat of Versailles
Hitler and his forces violated the treaty by invading the Rhineland. -
Germany Militarizes the Rhineland
After Hitler moved troops into the Rhineland France was alarmed by this action. However, they did not want to take military action against Germany. -
Spanish Civil War Begins
Fierce political conflict caused tension in Spain between Communists, Fascists and Nationalists. -
Japan Invades China
China had land and resources which the Japanese were interested in. -
Anschluss
In Hitlers attempt to gain help from Austria, he used a Anschluss, or a union. Austria declined the offer. -
Munich Conference
Russia, Germany, Britain, France, and Italy met in Munich to decide what needed to be done about Germany’s aggression in Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
"The Night of Broken Glass" where jewish stores were destroyed, jews were arrested, and killed by Nazis. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Russia and Germany signed a ‘Non-aggression Pact’. This would eventually make them allies in WWII -
Germany invades Poland
Germany said it had been attacked by Poland by dressing a German criminal in a Polish military uniform, then claiming the dead man as proof of the attack. German troops took immediate action in Poland by invading. -
Phony War
Many countries had big talk in the West but none took action militarily. -
Churchill Elected Prime Minister in England
Biggest figure in British politics, a great leader. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
Evacuation of Allied soilders at Dunkirk, where the Germans had pinned them. -
France Surrenders
Germany had defeated the weak efforts of the French, Hitler had reached and taken Paris. -
Battle of Britain
British and German air forces attacked eachother resulting in a British victory. -
Japan Seizes French Indo-China
Also known as the Vietnam Expedition and was during the Second Sino-Japanese war. -
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed US to send weapons to the British to help take down germany, without paying for them. -
Atlantic Charter
When Roosevelt and Churchill Winston met secretly on a ship off the coast of Canada they made an agreement that proclaimed the shared goals of the United States and Great Britain in opposing Hitler and his allies. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan surprised the US by destroying much of its Pacific Ocean Navy forces.
