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The US Stock Market Crashes
To preserve the neutrality and the peace of the United States and to secure the safety of its citizens and their interests. -
Japan siezes Manchuria
Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army and the Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukoku. The occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Mussolini takes power in Italy
Benito Mussolini was commonly known as El Dulce and created the Fascist party. -
FDR is elected President
FDR planned to rebuild America after a devastating depressing and used the quarter-back approach, he tried a lot of different approaches until certain ones finally worked. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers party, also known as the Nazi Party. -
Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler defied the treaty by building up his army, taking back the Rhineland and beginning to expand his fleet of German U-Boats. -
France militarizes the Rhineland
Administered by the League of Nations in 1935, the region was returned to the German Reich. At the same time, in 1920, the districts of Eupen and Malmedy were transferred to Belgium (see German-Speaking Community of Belgium). -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Mussolini decided to invade Ethiopia to begin to expand German territories, he was siding with Adolf Hilter. -
Civil War erupts in Spain
The civil war began from defying the ways of Spanish General Francisco Franco. -
Japan invades China
After the Marco Polo bridge incident on July 7, 1937, that began a war that would kill millions and bring all countries into the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Anschluss
Anschluss was the occupation and annexation of the German Republic Austria into Nazi Germany. -
Munich Conference
The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudetenland in the face of territorial demands made by Adolf Hitler. -
Kristallnacht
A series of co-ordinated attacks against jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria. -
Nazi-soveit Pact
The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, directed by the wish to strengthen the cause of peace between Germany and the USSR -
Germany invades Poland
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. -
Phony War
The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II—in the months following Britain and France's declaration of war on Germany in 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 -
Churchill is elected Prime Minister of England
On May 10th, 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister and during the war, he was the most dominant figure in British politics – a role that received huge praise once the war was over. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
350,000 people where trapped underground in Dunkirk and they were told close to none of them would survive. But, with the help of hundreds of civilians the helped to get almost 340,000 trapped people home and safe. -
France Surrenders
On 17 June, it was publicly announced France would ask for an armistice. On 22 June, an armistice was signed between France and Germany, going into effect on 25 June. For the Axis Powers, the campaign was a spectacular victory. -
Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Japan siezes French Indo-China
The seize began to prevent China from importing arms and fuel through the French Indochina. -
US neutrality act
The Neutrality Acts were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Lend Lease Act
Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939 but nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941 -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese planned a surprise attack on a US military base, Pearl Harbor, and many soldiers were killed and boats and ammunition destroyed.
