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Mussolini wins the October 1922 elections, having 250,000 supporters.
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Failed coup attempt by Hitler to control Munich.
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An agreement to outlaw war. Signed in Paris.
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The overproduction of agricultural produce created financial despair.
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The Nazi Party becomes very popular amongst the German people.
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Paul von Hindenburg names Hitler the Fuhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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More than 400 decrees and regulations against Jewish people.
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A purge when the Nazi regime carried out extra-judicial executions.
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Because they limited the size of Germany's army
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Japan withdrew because they were blamed for the events in Manchuria and were advised to withdraw their troops.
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The Italians technically won, although in the past they had been defeated.
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Hitler doing this was a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Also called the Nanking Massacre, the Rape of Nanking was an atrocity commited by the Japanese Army against the people of China which included sexual assaults and beheadings.
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Took Austria by force. Austrian chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg was bullied into appointing top Austrian Nazis to his cabinet.
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Germany invades and demands the Sudetenland.
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Neville Chamberlain tried to talk Hitler out of demanded the Sudetenland.
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A massive attack on Jews throughout the German Reich.
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Hitler ordered troops to invade Poland to make room for "pure" German citizens to live in according to his plan to make the world wholly German.
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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union (also called the Treaty of Non-Aggression)
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Einstein's letter to president Roosevelt urged him to do research on atomic bombs, as he knew the German government was doing that very thing.
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The evacuation of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk, France.
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France surrenders to Germany and creates an armistice.
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Bloodiest battle in the war, largest sustained bombing campaign of that time.
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Made Germany, Italy, and Japan allies in the war.
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Principal means for the USA to provide military aid to its allies.
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Massive invasion of the Soviet Union by German troops.
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The Japanese bombing on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was the event that launched the USA into WW2.
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A conference of Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution.
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75,000 Filipino and American troops were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps.
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16 American B-25 bombers and attacked the Japanese mainland.
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Decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater.
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British-American invasion of French North Africa.
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A counter-offensive strike establishing a line of overlapping island bases.
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Major battle in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of Stalingrad.
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Successful invasion of German-occupied western Europe.
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Failed plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Soldiers discovered the concentration camp Majdanek and the atrocities commited against Soviet citizens.
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Major German offensive campaign in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.
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Hitler and his wife Ava commited suicide in Hitler's underground bunker by swallowing a cyanide capsule and then shooting themselves with a pistol.
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Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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USA dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb that wiped out 90 percent of the city of Hiroshima and instantly killed 80,000 people. Three days later, the USA deployed another bomb in Nagasaki, killing approximately 40,000 people.
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The Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria.
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Victory over Japan day.
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The USA and Soviet Union were no longer allies, and this rift cause the start of the Cold War.
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26 nations at war with the axis powers met in Washington, D.C. to sign the Declaration of the UN, endorsing the Atlantic Charter.
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Antisemitic laws created in Nazi Germany.
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German industrialists, lawyers, and doctors were tried and indicted on crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
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28 Japanes military and government officials were tried and convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
