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Bolshevik Revolution
A group of communists propelled by leader Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Russian government and established a Communist Government. In 1922 they renamed these territories (Russian Empire) the USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Paris Peace Conference
An international meeting convened in January 18, 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. The purpose of the meeting was to establish the terms of the peace after World War. Though nearly thirty nations participated, the representatives of Great Britain, France, the United States, and Italy became known as the “Big Four”. -
Treaty of Versailles Signed
June 28th 1919, it was exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
Enigma machine used in Britain
1920’s was any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used in the twentieth century for enciphering and deciphering secret messages. -
Washington Naval Conference
November 12, 1921 to February 6, 1922, the world’s largest naval powers gathered in Washington for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia -
Rapallo Treaty
An agreement signed Italy on April 16, 1922 between Germany and Russia under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I. -
England refuses to renew its alliance with Japan
The alliance was viewed as an obstacle already at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920. The end of the alliance was signaled by the 1921 Imperial Conference, one of the major issues of the conference was to renew the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The Four Powers Treaty at the Washington Conference made the Anglo-Japanese Alliance come to an end in December, 1921; but it wasn’t official until all parties ratified the treaty on August 17, 1923. -
Beer Hall Putsch
On November 8–9, 1923, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempt aiming to seize control of the state government, march on Berlin, and overthrow the German federal government. -
Stalin comes to power in Russia
After Lenin’s death he in January 21st, 1924 he began his plot to became leader of the Soviet Union and in 1924 he did. -
Dawes Plan
August 1924, attempt following World War One for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany.
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Mein Kampf Published
July 18, 1925 Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy
December 24th, 1925 He was convinced that after WWI that Italy needed a strong leader so in 1919 he founded Italy’s Fascist Party (an aggressive nationalism), that would believe that the nation is more important than an individual. -
Stock Market Crash
October 29, 1929 or Black Friday It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
French begin constructing the Maginot line
A line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapons installations that France constructed along its borders with Germany during the 1930s. The line was a response to France's experience in World War I and was constructed during the run-up to World War II. (didnt find exact date so started at 1st of Jan) -
US Neutrality Acts
They were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. And it sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Japan invades Manchuria
On September 18, 1931 Japan launched an attack on Manchuria. Within a few days Japanese armed forces had occupied several strategic points in South Manchuria. -
Ukrainian Famine
Was dreadful famine premeditated by the Soviet Union, headed by Joseph Stalin during 1932-1933, as a means to undermine the nationalistic pride of the Ukrainian people. It served to control and further oppress the Ukrainian people by denying them the basic vital essentials they needed to survive. The Ukrainian Famine is also known as Holodomor, meaning “death by hunger.” (couldnt find exact date just year) -
Hitler declares himself Vice Chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany
Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. -
First concentration camps established
Opened in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, ordinary German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign nationals from countries which Germany occupied or invaded. It was finally liberated in 1945. -
Hitler made chancellor of Germany
January 30, 1933 within a year and a half, Hitler was able to take over both the position of president (Hindenburg died) and chancellor and combine them into one position of supreme leader -
Stalin begins military purges and The Great Terror
A campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership, and widespread police surveillance, suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. -
Night of Long Knives
Was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934 -
Berlin Olympics
Officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held in the summer of 1936 in Berlin, Germany. -
Hitler invades Austria
In 1938 Hitler began the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. -
Hitler conquers the rest of Czechoslovakia
1938–1945 Hitler began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions. -
Munich Conference
September 29, 1938 a settlement that permitted Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers. -
Hitler invades the Sudetenland
On October 1st, 1938 when Hitler invaded the German speaking part of the country. -
Krystallnacht
Was a pogrom (a series of coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria took place on November 9-10, 1938 -
Scandinavian Wars
In 1939 the war spread to Scandinavia and they started fighting neutral countries. -
Einstein writes a letter to FDR on the possibility of Atomic Weapons
August 2, 1939, the letter warned of the danger that Germany might develop atomic bombs and suggested that the United States should initiate its own nuclear program. -
Nazi Soviet Anti-Aggression Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a ten-year nonaggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which each signatory promised not to attack the other. -
Hitler invades Poland
In 1 September – 6 October 1939 Hitler invaded Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent it was this that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
- On September 3, 1939 the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced that unless Germany agreed to withdraw their recent aggression against Poland, 'a state of war would exist between the two countries.'
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Winter War between Finland and Russia
During November 30, 1939 – March 13, 1940 the Winter War started it was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. -
Winston Churchill Comes to power in England
A British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from October 26, 1951 - April 7, 1955. -
Nazi occupation of Norway
After the capitulation of German forces in Europe the German invasion of Norway began on April 9, 1940 through May 8, 1945. -
Defeat of French army by the Nazis
It is also known as the Fall of France and it began on May 10, 1940 was the successful German invasion of France and some of the Low Countries. -
Desert Campaigns in Africa Begin
Took place in North Africa from June 10, 1940 to May 13, 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia. The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century. The Allied war effort was dominated by the British Commonwealth and exiles from German-occupied Europe. The United States entered the war in 1941 and began di -
Battle of Britain
July 10 – October 31, 1940 was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa-
On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. The ambitious operation was driven by Adolf Hitler's persistent desire to conquer the Soviet territories as embodied in Generalplan Ost. It marked the beginning of the pivotal phase in deciding the victors of the war. -
Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was what led to the United States' to enter into World War II. -
Manhattan Project Begins
A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II 1942- 1946 -
FDR signs Executive order 9066, beginning Japanese internment
President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1942, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded." -
Battle of Midway
Between June 4 and 7, 1942 decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet, it was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Nimitz and McArthur begin island hopping in the Pacific
1943-1945 to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands. -
Nazi Final Solution Developed
1943 The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to exterminate the Jewish people in German-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. -
D-Day
Were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, June 6, 1944 -
Operation Market Garden
(September 17-25, 1944) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany, but it was the largest airborne operation up to that time. -
Battle of the Bulge
December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945 it was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region Of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front. -
US victory at Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19 – March 26, 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Surrender of Germany
The German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April and early May 1945. -
Death of FDR
He died from cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945 -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Adolf Hitler shoots himself on April 30, 1945 -
First successful test of atomic bomb
The first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945 -
US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II, August 6 and 9, 1945 -
Surrender of Japan
On September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of World War II to a close -
Rape of Nanking
1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
