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The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty at the end of WWI. This treaty ended the state of war between the Allied Powers and Germany.
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This conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference, was a military conference called by Warren Harding, and took place in Washington, D.C.
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Mussolini, the man who forged the Fascist Movement in Italy, became the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922. Benito later became dictator of Italy.
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Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party commanded a coaliton group in an attempted coup d'etat which is now known as the Beer Hall Putsch.
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Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union and the architecht of the Bolshevik Revolution, died of a brain hemorrhage at 54 years old.
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The Dawes Plan was an attempt to solve the reperations problems from World War I. The reperations had interrupted international politics after WWI and the Treaty of Versailles.
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The Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle, was an autobiography by Adolf Hitler. In this book he outlined the future plans he had for Germany and his political ideology.
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Hirohito was the longest-reigning monarch, ruling from 1926 to 1989. He was a reluctant man when it came to war and violence.
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The first Five Year Plan, introduced by Joseph Stalin, was designed to industrialize the Soviet Union in the shortest possible time.
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The Wall Street Crash was the U.S. Stock Market crash which triggered a world-wide Great Depression. It was catastrophic, economic slumps and a large number of unemployed people.
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The Dachau was the first concentration camp created by the Nazis. The concentration camp was for political prisoners in Bavaria, Germany.
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The Neutrality Act was passed by the US government to avoid getting involved in a foreign war.
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Italy and Germany created and signed an alliance, which Japan later joined.
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The pact was signed by Germany and Japan. It was intended to serve as a miltary alliance aimed at the Soviet Union.
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The Nazis marched into the german-speaking nation called Austria to annex it.
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The Munich Conference allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechloslovakia.
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The Nazis invaded and occupied Czechloslovakia, which was sacrificed in the Munich Pact.
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Mussolini lead a military campaign against Albania. Even though his troops were badly organized, they invaded and occupied Albania.
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The Non-Aggression pact was a big surprise to the whole world. Germany used this to invade Poland unopposed.
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Germany attacked Poland to gain back lost land and ultimately rule Poland.
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The Soviet forces arrayed against Finland convinced many countries that this invasion would be a cakewalk.
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Denmark and Norway were invaded because Germany wanted to secure harbors and iron ore mines.
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Winston Churchill was know for his military leadership, but was appointed British prime minister in place of Neville Chamberlain.
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The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk which finally ends as the German forces capture the beach port.
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After making an allegiance with Germany, Mussolini declares war on France and Great Britain.
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Erwin Rommel assaulted the British-Allied garrison at Torbuk, Libya to occupy the North African port.
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This was a significant turning point of WWII. This descisive victory saved Britain from being possibly occupied by Germany.
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Germany, Japan, Italy formed an alliance called the Axis Powers.
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Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, in the largest German military operation of World War II.
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The Atlantic Charter was created by the US and Britain and stated the US and Britain's war goals.
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Pearl Harbor, an American naval base, got bombed by Japanese kamakazi planes and is a historical event in American history.
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The US declared war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor the previous day.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was the fight over the Russian city Stalingrad between the Russians and the Nazis and Allies.
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The Wannsee Conference was the meeting of senior officials of Nazy, Germany.
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This was the moving of Filipino and American soldiers by the Imperial Japanese Army.
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The Battle of Midway was one of the most decisive naval battles of WWII between the US and Japan.
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D-Day was the biggest attack from the Allies to invade Western Europe in history.
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MacArthur went to the Phillipines to liberate the people of the Phillipines from Japanese occupation.
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This day marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of WWII of the Nazis surrender.
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This conference was when the Big Three met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of WWII
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This was the formal surrender of Japan, which sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.
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The Germans entered these countries, and broke down their borders to seize land.
