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World War 2
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Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi Party
July 29, 1921, Adolf Hitler was introduced as Führer of the Nazi Party, marking the first time that title was publicly used to address him. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy in October 1922 after leading the March on Rome, a paramilitary Fascist coup against liberal Italy’s parliamentary institutions. -
Josef Stalin Sole Dictatior of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Josef Stalin was sole dictator of the Soviet Union, He turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state. -
Japan's Army Seizes Manchuria, China.
In 1931, the Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. -
Hitler is Named Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
The Neutrality Acts were a series of acts created by the United States Congress that were geared toward keeping the United States out of another war. -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
It was a brief colonial war that is also remembered in history as the second Italo-Abyssinian war. Mussolini, who was the leader of Italy, had his eye set on annexing Ethiopia into Italy’s newly created colony of East Africa. -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
While Japan was giving the appearance of being a good neighbour in the western Pacific during the 1920s by involvement in treaties designed to preserve peace, extremist elements in Japan's government, military and civilian population had privately never renounced the use of force to expand Japan's territory -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
A massacre of a quarter of a million people happened in China -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
The Munich Pact was signed at the Munich Conference in 1938 by Great Britain, Italy, France, and Germany. -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
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Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
They Declared war on Germany on the 3rd September 1939 a mere 2 days after the German invasion of Poland began. -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
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Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
