Lead Up To WWII

  • Unification of Germany and Italy

  • Outbreak of WWI

  • Russian Revolution

  • Eng of WWI

  • Peace Treaty - Conference of Paris

    Five treaties signed including the Treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations Est

  • Mussolini comes to power as the leader of the Fascist party

  • The Corfu Incident

  • Germany allowed to join the League of Nations

  • Kellog-Briand Pact asked all nations to 'outlaw war'

  • The Great depression begins

  • Japenesse aggression in Manchuria

  • Japen withdraws from the League of Nations

  • Hitler is voted councilor and immediately become Dictator

    Through the Enabling Act
  • The Burning of the Books in Germany

  • Hindenburg Dies

    Hitler names himself 'der Fuhrer'
  • Night of the long Knives in Germany

  • Hilter withdrew Germany from the League of Nations

  • The Ethiopian incident

  • Little unemployment in Germany thanks to Hitler

  • Nuremburg Laws passed

    Jews lose citizenship
  • Nuremburg Laws passed

    Jews lose citizenship
  • The Rhineland is taken back by Hitler for Germany

  • Mussolini withdrew Italy from the League of Nations

  • Austria becomes part of Germany in Anschluss

  • Pact of steel made by Mussolini and Hitler

  • German-Soviet Pact signed

  • Germany marches into Poland; War declared

  • Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbour

    Bringing the Americans into War
  • Hitler commits suicide