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  • Mussolini takes power in Italy

    Mussolini takes power in Italy

    Italy gets a new powerful leader. He introduces a new type of leadership called fascism.
  • U.S. Stock Market Crashes

    U.S. Stock Market Crashes

    At this time the U.S. Stock Market crashes to an all-time low. The U.S. stays in this economic turmoil until the WWII helps boost jobs in America.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference

    The conference dealt with an agreement permitting Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's southern territory.
  • Japan seizes Manchuria

    Japan seizes Manchuria

    Japan takes over Manchuria for all of their natural resources and wants to expand Japanese territory. This later makes the U.S. stop supplying Japan with oil.
  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    German's new leader makes broad promises to make Germany the strongest and largest country for the next 1000 years. Adolf Hitler is also a racist leader who thinks Germany should be full of the "Perfect Race."
  • FDR is elected president

    FDR is elected president

    FDR wins the 1933 election for presidency. In office FDR wants to keep a neutral bias towards war.
  • Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles

    Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles

    Hitler started production of military equipment and started to grow his army. Everyman was now being drafted.
  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia

    When Italy invaded Ethiopia it showed the weaknesses of The League of Nations.
  • France militarizes the Rhineland

    France militarizes the Rhineland

    German troops entered the Rhineland for the first time since WWI.
  • Japan invades China

    Japan invades China

    Japan wanted to expand their territory to the mainland for more natural resources. The Japanese also wanted to expand their national power.
  • Civil War erupts in Spain

    Civil War erupts in Spain

    Began with a military uprising. Spain was later split into two different parties, "Republican" and "Loyalist."
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss

    The joining of Austria and Germany, this was part of the making of the Third Reich.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    In German Kristallnacht means "Night of Broken Glass." A period in which Jewish people were first sent to concentration camps.
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Was a treaty between Germany and Russia stating that they will not fight each other. The Germans later break this treaty.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Germany took 1.5 million troops to mobilize in Poland.
  • Phony War

    Phony War

    The time before France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. During this time London was bering bombed by Germany.
  • Churchill is Elected Prime Minister in England

    Churchill is Elected Prime Minister in England

    Winston Churchill is Elected Prime Minister in England.
  • Miracle at Dunkirk

    Miracle at Dunkirk

    British and French troops had to evacuate the Harbor because German's were incoming.
  • France Surrenders

    France Surrenders

    The French surrender before the war really began. After surrendering the French got a new government.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Was an air battle between Germany and Great Britain to gain air dominancy.
  • Japan seizes French Indochina

    Japan seizes French Indochina

    Made blockades to stop the transportation of weapons and fuel.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    The U.S. would help supply the British with military needs. By doing this it kept the U.S. out of the war itself.
  • U.S. Neutrality Act

    U.S. Neutrality Act

    The neutrality act ended on March 1941 when U.S. merchant ships were rapidly taken down.
  • Atlantic Charter

    Atlantic Charter

    The meeting stated reasons for which this war would not things but help things.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

    The American Navy base was attack by Japanese fighter jets. No one was prepared for what was to happen.