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Europe 1933 - 1945
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Hitler become Chancellor of Germany
In 1930 as a result of the worldwide Depression, Germany enter in a crisis, this return of unemployment and hard times caused a great upsurge in support for Hitler. Hitler finally took power in 1933 as the Chancellor of Germany. -
Rearment of Germany
Hitler instructured the German general, von Fritsch, to end German disarmament an to "create an army of the greatest possible strength" -
Enabling Law
After Hitler took complete control, democracy in Germany became to an end when the Reichstag passed the so-called "Enabling Law". This law gave to Hitler the power to introduce future laws without the agreement of the Reichstag. -
The Soviet Union became a member of the League
The League invited the Soviet Union to became a member of the League, and Stalin accepted becaming part of it. These helped to maintain the peace all over Europe. -
Italy invaded Abyssinia
Italy invaded Abyssinia. the league tried to stop Italy through the use of economic sanctions. These did not include a ban on the sale of oil and they failed. After this the League was not taken seriously. -
Germany invaded the Rhineland
Hitler defied the Treaty of Versailles. He ordered German troops to march into the Rhineland. He took considerable risks in moving into the Rhineland becuse there was a good chance that France would send troops to resist the German forces and this would mean war, but this never happened. -
Germany invaded the remainig part of Czechoslovakia
Hitler, with the support of the Sudeten Germans conquered the remainig part of Czechoslovakia, because Hitler was sure that neither Britain nor France would intervene in the invasion, and he was in the right. -
Germany take-over of Austria (Anschluss)
In early 1938 Austria was in a state of crisis. Local nazis were making difficult for the goverment of Chancellor kurt Schuschnigg. He visited Hitler for crisis talks in Germany in February 1938, but Hitler didn´t care about the conference, and invaded Austria one month later. -
Germany invaded Czechoslovakia
Hitler send troops to invaded what was left of Czechoslovakia. Britain and France took no action. So Hitler took Czechoslovakia without any resistance. -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
In 1939 Stalin amazed the world by doing a deal with his deadly enemy Hitler. -
Garmany invaded Poland
The Second World War began when Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France had pledged to defend Poland, so the war began. -
The Second World War had begun
German forces entered Polish territory on 1 september. Two days later, the British and the French governments declared war on Germany. -
The fall of France
Hitler took over France, and the British army was forced to flee from the continent back to Britain from the port of Dunkirk. -
Hitler and Mussolini
Mussolini joined forces with Germany, because he wanted Italy to get some of the rewards of victory. -
London bombed (Agust - September)
having defeated France. Hitler prepared for a German invasion of Britain. The German airforce, the Luftwaffe, set out to win control of the air over Britain. This was the first stage of the invasion plan. german planes bombed military sites, factories and the capital city, London for 40 nights. -
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
One of the great turning points of the war took place on 22 June 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in an operation known to the German leaders as Barbarrosa. -
USA joins the war
The mos powerful country in the world, USA, became involved in the war when the Japanese went to war agains the USA by attacking Pearl Harbor. -
Mussolini died
When Mussolini and his wife, and some political leaders was trying to flee from Italy, some Italian farmers shot and killed Mussolini and the political leaders. After they where murdered the Italians thought of a plan to humiliate them, which was by hanging them by their feet on a gas station. -
Hitler suicide
Adolf Hitler commited suicide by gunshop on Monday, 30 April 1945 in his bunker with his wife Eva, because he realized that he had loose the war. -
The Second War ends
Germany and Japan loose the war and had to sign a surrender.
