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Mussolini take power of Italy
Mussolini was elected in 1922 and was quick to turn Italy into a dictatorship. Mussolini partnered with Hitler and fought along side him through out World War II. -
Stock Market Crash
Also known as "Black Tuesday," ended the roaring '20's and sent the U.S into the worst economic crisis in history. Because many foreign economies depended on the U.S; this terrible day effected the entire world. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Needing a place to put their growing population and against the goverments demands, the nationalists invaded Manchuria and took control. The goverment again ordered them to stop but the nationalists refused, demenstrating not only their power but the weakness in the Japanese government. -
FDR is elected president
After blaming Hoover for the Great Depression, the American people were eager to find hope in their new president. FDR tried many approaches to recovering the country and was highly successful. Because of his focus on the nation and not foreign affairs, the U.S. was able to stay out of war for a very long time. -
Hitler is named chancellor of Germany
Promising the German people a way out of the debt from WWI, Hitler had complete control. Using this control Hitler wasted no time invading country after country in order to create his "perfect race." -
U.S passes Neutrality Act
The 1935 act, signed on August 31, 1935, imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Using disputes about the Ethiopian and Italian border as an excuse, Mussolini launched an invasion that the weak Ethiopian forces could not stop. Italy easily conquered. This exposed the weakness of the league of nations. -
Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland
Although it was against the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland. France was alarmed but refused to take military action against the Germans. -
Civil War Erupts in Spain
Fighting broke out between the facist nationalists and the republicans in Spain in 1936. This fighting was mainly due to the wishes of nationalists Francisco Franco. Both sides recieved aid from opposing countries, in the end Franco won and the country fell into the hands of a facist dictator. -
Anschluss
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The Munich Conference
The areas of the Czech borders was decided at this conferance with major powers such as Germany and other European powers. -
Kristallnacht
Also known as the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht was a series of un-coordinated attacks on Jews living in Nazi Germany and Austria. -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
It was a non-aggression pact under which the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany each pledged to remain neutral in the event that either nation were attacked by a third party. It remained in effect until 22 June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. -
Germany Invades Poland
invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe. The invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. -
The "Phony Way"
September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940 that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German Reich. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation, commonly known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France. -
Chruchill is elected prime minister of England
British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. -
France Surrenders
The Armistice is signed on June 22. Under its terms, two thirds of France is to be occupied by the Germans. The French army is to be disbanded. In addition, France must bear the cost of the German invasion. -
Battle of Britian
Germany planned to invade Great Britain by taking out the RAF but failed. Instead, Germany bombed London in an attempt to scare the public and cause them to lose their will to fight. The war ended and Germany had failed. -
The Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France, and other Allied nations with materiel they needed for war. -
Stalin takes power in Russia
He replaced the New economic policy introduced by Lenin in the early 1920s with a highly centralised command economy, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization that resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrial power. Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase. -
Japan seizes French Indo-China
Vietnam Expedition, was a move by the Empire of Japan in September 1940, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, to prevent China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina -
The Atlantic Charter
Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. -
Peral Harbor
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Hawaiian naval port of Pearl Harbor, which crippled the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet.
