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Stock market crashes
the stock market crashed and lost 90% of its value by 1932 -
Japan seizes Manchuria
the region was seized by Japan following the Mukden Incident and in 1932 ... by the puppet state were first seized in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria -
FDR is elected president
FDR wins by a landslide over Hoover, only 6 states voted for Hoover -
Hitler named Chancellor of Germany
President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. -
Mussolini takes power in Italy
Mussolini takes over as chancellor of italy and they almost become communist -
Italy invades Ethiopia
shortly after the League exonerated both parties in the Walwal incident, Italian armed forces from Eritrea invaded Ethiopia -
Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles
Germany sends troops into the Rhineland in a play to take back the land lost in the First World War -
France militarizes the Rhineland
France and the Low Countries dictated that Rhineland was to be a demilitarized zone. -
spain erupts into a civil war
tensions were thin in spain of how they should support and it led to a civil war -
U.S. neutrality act
To preserve the neutrality and the peace of the United States and to secure the safety of its citizens and their interests -
Japan invades China
Japan invaded China, after China threatened to attack Japan -
anschluss
Anschluss also called the " war of flowers " -
Munich Conference
was popular with most people in Britain because it appeared to have prevented a war with Germany. -
Kristallnacht
means " night of crystal" -
Germany invades Poland
German forces attack Poland across all frontiers and its planes bomb Polish cities , including the capital, Warsaw -
Nazi-Soviet pact
The pact signed in 1939 by Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled a one- front war when Germany started World War II. -
Phony war
british, French,and Belgium troops begin to think that there is no war cause germany has not touched them in mounths ( It took Germany a year to get to France) -
France surrenders
Germany is to much for France so they surrender -
miracle at Dunkirk
300,000 troops had to fall back to the beaches and were traped, Winston Chirchhill asked anybody who was a ship captain to anybody with a boat to save the 300,000 soldiers trapped on the beach -
Battle of Britain
Britain battled against nazi-germany -
Lend - Lease Act
A legislation that gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the powers to sell, transfer, exchange, lend equipment to any country to help it defend itself against the Axis powers -
Pearl Harbor Attacked
Japan surprises the United states at 7:55am and attacks / destroys Pearl Harbor -
alantic charter signed
a deal that was signed to not enter the War, until the japanies attacked Pearl Harbor
