Lead up to WWII

  • October Revolution

    Birth of USSR under Lenin
  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Crash on Wall Street

    Great Depression begins
  • FDR elected US president

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Hitler becomes Fuhrer

  • Anschluss

    Germany annexes Austria
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    Build up to war

  • Munich Accord

    Neville Chamberlin's appeasement of Hitler
  • Hitler annexes Czechloslovakia

  • Nazi/Soviet non-aggression pact

    Signed between Hitler and Stalin
  • Germany invades Poland

  • Evacuation of Dunkirk

  • France surrenders

    France signs a surrender to Germany