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Mussolini takes power in Italy
Leader of the Fascist part; Benito Mussolini takes Italian parliment -
Stock Market Crashes
market crashes dropping in value of 16 billion dollars, people are calling this day black Tuesday. -
Japan seizes Manchuria
Without the approval of the Japanese government Japanese troops invade the provinence of Manchuria -
FDR is elected president
In a ladslide victory Franklin Delano Roosevelt Is elected President. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, was named Chancellor of Germany -
U.S. Neutrality Act
U.S declares a neutral state -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Italian prim ministor declars war on Ethiopia -
Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler violats the traty by sending German troops into he Rhineland -
France militarizes the Rhineland
France responds to Hitlers movements by sending troops into the Rhineland border -
Civil War erupts in Spain
Spain erupts into civil war to detrman its diplomatic and political vews. -
Japan invades China
Japan began war with china, Japanese troops massacred 200,000 to 300,000 Chines in the capital of Nanjing. -
Anschluss
Natzi Germany regains its former Eipiers land and forces Austria to surrinder -
Munich Conference
The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. -
Kristallnacht
A series of co-ordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria, least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and a further 30,000 arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings over 1,000 synagogues were burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged. Later Jews would be identified by waring a yellow star of david -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Stalin dicides to meet with Hitler to desscuse Russias disier to stey out of the war. -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler uses dirty war far to invade Poland -
Phony War
The stand by phase of the war from when Hitler invaded Poland to when Germany and France battle -
Churchill is Elected Prime Minister in England
Churchhill elected prime minister -
Miracle at Dunkirk
The British lead rescue of allied troops in Dunkirk France. Hundreds of civilian boats as well as navy ships carry allie soulders from Hitlers army -
France Surrenders
France falls to Hitlers army -
Battle of Britain
Hitler uses his airforce the Luftwaffe to bomb the british city of London.With help from Churchill the british keep there spirits, and eventually defeat the German invasion. -
Japan seizes French Indo-China
Japan blocks French supplie ships from entering China -
Lend-Lease Act
This allowed the U.S to send supplies to Britan regardless of its ability to pay. -
Atlantic Charter
Roosevalt meets with Churchill off the coast of Newfoundland to create a document that defines the allied goals post-war -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs a U.S millitary base in Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. This is the momment the war has been brought to the U.S
