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Hindenburg retired again in 1919, but returned to public life in 1925 to be elected the second President of Germany. Although 84 years old and in poor health, Hindenburg was persuaded to run for re-election as German President in 1932, as he was considered the only candidate who could defeat Adolf Hitler.
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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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Nazi Party was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practised Nazism. Its predecessor, the German Workers' Party existed from 1919 to 1920.
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The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria.
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Hitler’s emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.
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Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germany in September 1919 when Hitler joined the political party known as the German Workers' Party.
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The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 added to his popularity, helping him win re-election by a landslide in 1936. March 4, 1933, Roosevelt spearheaded unprecedented major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal.
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One of the first acts by Adolf Hitler after the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act of 1933 gave him de facto legal dictatorship over the German state was to pass the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.
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Adolf Hitler announces Germany is withdrawing from the international organization. The League was at the time fixated on reaching an international disarmament agreement, but efforts to limit army sizes prompted the departure of Japan in March 1933 and then Germany a few months later.
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Hindenburg died in office in August 1934, a little over two years after his reelection, having since appointed Hitler as Chancellor. Hitler then assumed the powers of head of state, but did not use the title of President until his own death, when he named Karl Dönitz his successor as President in his Final Political Will and Testament.
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August 31, 1935, Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license.
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On September 15, 1935, the Nazi government passed two new racial laws at their annual NSDAP Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg, These laws took German citizenship away from Jews and outlawed both marriage and sex between Jews and non-Jews.
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The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century which saved Ethiopia from Italian colonisation.
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is a 1949 book by British historian Elizabeth Wiskemann. It is a study of the Axis alliance of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany with particular emphasis on the relationship between Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
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The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan Later to be joined by other, mainly fascist, governments on November 25, 1936 and was directed against the Third Communist International.
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A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945.
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The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking or Rape of Nanjing, was an episode during the Second Sino-Japanese War of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing
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Anschluss was the Nazi propaganda term for the invasion and incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938.
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At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the Munich Pact concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France, and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured "peace for our time."
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Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening.
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On this day, Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims.
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The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced.
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On this day in 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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The invasion was a direct result of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, signed between Germany and the Soviet Union
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The German air force launches Operation CAstigo, the bombing of Belgrade, as 24 divisions and 1,200 tanks drive into Greece
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Winston Churschill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime ministerfollowing the latter's resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons
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After withholding formal alliegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain
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The people of Paris awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris
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The Armistice was signed by the top militry officials of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic
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(quote from Churchill) "The Battle of France is over. I expect the BAttle of Britain is about to begin."
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FDR, who first took office in 1933 as America's 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedented third term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to server more than two terms.
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Between 1939 and June 1941 the German army invaded and occupied many countries including Hollan, Belgium, and Luxemberg
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A new treaty with Japan, whose relationships with Germany and Italy, the three soon to be called "Axis powers", were cemented with the Tripartite Pact of 27 September 1940.
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Mussolini's army, already occupying Albania, invades Greece in what will prove to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce's forces
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastard ina a massive invasion of the Sovie Union.
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One Major event from "The Final Solution"
Killing Squads Accompany German Invasion of the Soviet Union:
German mobile squads, called special duty units, are assigned to kill Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union. The squads followed the German army as they advanced deep into Soviet territory, and carried out mass-murder operations. -
The Atlantic Charter was a joint decleration released by U.S. president FDR and Brtisih prime minister Churchill following a meeting of the two heades of state in Newfoundland
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Britain declared war on Finland, Hungary, and Romania following the sigining of the Tri-partite Pace and Finland's alliance with Germany
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Just before 8 a.m. hundreds of Japanese gighter planes attacked the American naval baase at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. That barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessls, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 200 airplanes.
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As America's Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President FDR requesrs, and recieves, a decleration of war against Japan.
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Italy and Germany both declare war on the U.S., bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
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Two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, U.S. President FDR signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast
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The Bataan Peninsula was surrendered to the Japanese
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Major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War 2 between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the U.S and Australia
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War 2
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The battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater
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The military forces of the U.S. and the United Kingdom launched an amphibious operation against French North Africa
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The Germans in Tunisia had surrendered, and nearly a quarter of a million prisoners were taken
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Mussolini, is voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele, who tells 2 Duce that the war is lost. Mussolini responded to it all with an uncharacteristic meekness.
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Armistice of Cassibile was signed by Italy which declared peace with the Allies and left the Axis powers, however the country went into a civil war afterwards.
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Pietro Badoglio, General of Italy declared war on Germany with the help of the other Allies.
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Japanese forces invaded parts of India but suffered a huge loss because of large forces of Allied resistance and malaria. The Japanese lost around 80,000 troops.
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Allied forces take Rome from Axis powers and liberate the city
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Allied troops landed on Normandy beach which was under heavy Nazi control. This attack was called “Operation Overlord” which had many naval and troop attacks along the beachheads with paratroopers landing behind enemy lines.
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Naval battle which destroyed many Imperial Japanese Navy ships and eliminated their ability to conduct large scale carrier ship actions in the Pacific.
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Allied liberation of Nazi controlled Paris which ended with the German garrison surrendering the French capital.
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Brussels was liberated when the Allied forces invaded Nazi occupied Belgium and met little German resistance.
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FRD was elected for his fourth term on this day.
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German offensive campaign that was fought in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg that took the Allied forces off guard. Germany armored forces were destroyed and could not be replaced and at the end the Germany Luftwaffe suffered severe casualties.
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Meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt in which they discussed the world after the war.
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major battle in which the U.S. Marines captured the Japanese controlled island of Iwo Jima.
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The Soviet forces breached into the German front and took the city.
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Attempting to flee to Switzerland, Mussolini and his wife were shot and killed by Italian partisans.
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On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his air raid bunker.
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General Jodl of the German forces signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces at Reims, in northwestern France.
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Victory in Europe day. The day that the Allies accepted the surrender of Germany.
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treaty that all countries that were signed had to follow in which the United Nations obligations were above other treaties.
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Statement that called for all Japanese armed forces to surrender.
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U.S. forces drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima destroying 90 percent of the city and killing around 80,000 people instantly.
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U.S. forces drop another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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Victory over Japan day, Emperor Hirohito surrendered to the world, ending World War II.
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Allied forces bombed the German city of Dresden.
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