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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union in the 1920- 50.
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Benito Mussolini
A Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister. Died on April 28,1945 and was called ironperfect. -
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. THis is the guy that was responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who ruled the Nazie party. Adolf hitler is a dictator that tried to rule europe but failed. -
Italy's conquest of Ethiopia
Fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ethiopian Empire (also known at the time as Abyssinia). Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935. -
Spanich Civil War
1936-39,Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country. -
Annexing of Austria
German troops walked into Austria to annex the German speaking nation for the Third Reich. Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to go after the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. -
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression
Enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years -
Poland Attacked
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.TheGerman Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. -
Battle of Britain
German and British air forces fought in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. Britain’s victory saved the country from a ground invasion. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in a naval battle. Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern part of Europe. -
D- Day
156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. -
Death of Roosevelt
On April 12, 1945 Roosevelt dies from cerebral hemorrhage in his home at Warm Springs, Georgia.Roosevelt was the longest serving president. -
V-E Day
This is the day Nazi germany surrendered. On April 30 Adolf Hitler killed himself. -
Dropping of the Atomic bomb
The United States of America were the first to drop an atomis bomb. They dropped it on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Killing everyone in range. -
V-J Day
V-J Day was the day that Japan surrendered. This was the last day of WWII -
Rome-berlin axis formed
Formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign leader Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936. It was formalized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. The term Axis Powers came to include Japan.
