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The Treaty of Versailles ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The Treaty was written by Allies and no participation from Germany.
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Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and architect of the Soviet Union. The cause of his death was a stroke.
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This Conference discused the naval disagreement and ways to relieve the growing tensions in East Asia.
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Mussolini rose to power at the beginning of World War I as a leading proponent of Fascism. He was originally a socialist but forged the parliamentary fascist movement.
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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in a attempted coup d'eat. They began in the city of Munich aiming to seize control of the state government, march on Berlin.
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The Dawes Plan was an attempt to solve World War I reparation problems. This caused great trouble for international politics following World War I and The Treaty of Versailles.
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The Mein Kampf was a biography about Adolf Hitler and his solitary boyhood in Austria. It also goes all through his life to his death in Berlin.
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Hirohito was the longest reigning emperor. He was also a controversial figure who announced Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces.
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Joseph Stalin launched the First Five Year Plan and it was designed to industrialize the USSR in the shortest possible time.
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This event was a collapse of values that triggered the Great Depression. It was ten years of economic slump with horrifying levels of unemployment.
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Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp that opened in a major city of Southern Germany. Dachau originally held poilitcal prisoners but then evolved into a death camp.
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The First Neutrality Act prohibited the exporting of "arms, ammunition, and implements of war". This event kept the U.S out of the war.
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The signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis formed a coalition with Italy and Germany. The team axis powers eventually included Japan as well.
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Signing the Anti-Comintern Pact was an attempt to form a miltary alliance against the Soviet Union. This Pact didn't end well Japan and Germany ended up not trusting each other.
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At this event Austrian Nazi's conspired for the second time and they seized Autrians government. Austria was forced to unite their nation with Nazi Germany.
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In The Munich Conference Adolf Hitler demanded the Sudentanland in Czechoslavakia. A British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to stop Hitler.
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On this day, foces to invade Czechoslavakia. Czechoslavakia was a nation forced to sacrifice on the means of the Munich Pact.
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This invasion was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Alabinan Kingdom. The intent of this invasion was to prelude even greater conquests in the Balkans. The conflict was a result of imperial policies of dictator Benito Mussolini.
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This Non-Aggression pact was the signing of the two countries, Germany and the Soviet Union agreeing to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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On this day, Hitler seeks to regain lost terrritory and ultimately rule Poland. German forces bonbard on land from the air.
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The Soviet Union borders Finland with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. The forces against Finland convinced most Western nations that this invasion would be a cakewalk.
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On this day, German warships enter major Norwegian ports. Germany diploys thousands of German troops and occupies Norway.
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Winstone Churchill is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister. Eventually he lost confidence after losing a vote for the House of Commons.
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At first, the British and French commnaders had thought that the German forces would attack through central belgium as they did in World War I. But this event caused Belgium and the Betherlands to surrend when Germany invades.
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When Dankerque was evacuated naval vessels and hundreds of civilian boats were used in this evacuation. When this ended hundreds of British, French, and Belgium troops were saved.
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On this day, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom. They were in the largest sustained bombing campaign.
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This was a day in 1940 that Benito Mussolini declared war on Great Britain and France, officially bringing Italy into World War II.
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On this day, German troops arrive in Libya to reinforce the belegeaured Italians positions. Erwin Rommel's leadership in Germany made him an excellent role model as a commander in war.
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This event was considered the largest miltary operation of World War II. Hitler ignored the Non-Agression Pact they had and attacked them anyways to seize prime lands in the Soviet Union.
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This Charter they drafted included eight common principles that the United States and Great Britain would be committed to supporting in the postwar world. One example of that was that they would not seek territorial expansion for their country.
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On this devastating day, Japanse planes attacked the U.S naval base at Pearl Harbor, on Hawaiian Territory. This bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans.
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This calling of War took place the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Franklin Roosevelt adressed Congress and asked for a Declearation of War on Japan.
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This Conference was a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin of Wannsee. The purpose was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various government departments for the final solution for the Jews.
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This Death March was the transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army. Affter the three month Battle of Bataan on this day many American and Filipino prisoners lost their lives.
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This Battle was able to inflict permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. An important turning point in this victory was it allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position.
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This battle was between the Soviet Union and Germany and its allies to control the city of Stalingrad in Souther Russia. The Soviet Union successfully defenderd their city and defeated Germany.
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This day was the invasion when American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along the coast of France Normandy. This invasion resulted in Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control.
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This event was when MacArthur returned. He fulfilled his promise to the area he was forced to flee in 1942.
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This was a day of celebration when that marked the acceptance of the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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This conference was meant to negoitate terms for the end of World War II. The Big Three Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, and Winston Chruchill all met on this day and made this decision.
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V-J day was the surrender ceremony that was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. V-Jday was held becuase of the victory in defeating Japan.
