Rise of Dictadors and World War 2

Russian Revolution

Dec 18, 1917

The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union.

Benito Mussolini

Jan 1, 1919

Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919, eventually making himself dictator prior to World War II. He was killed in 1945.

Joseph Stalin

Dec 17, 1922

Leader of Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Stalin was the General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Sep 18, 1931

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.

Adolf Hitler

Dec 17, 1933

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Franklin Roosevelt

Dec 18, 1934

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) was the 32nd President of the United States and the only chief executive to be elected to more than two terms in office. Roosevelt held the presidency from 1934-1945, leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War II.

Germany moves troops into the Rhineland

Dec 18, 1936

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.

Germany annexation of Austria

Mar 12, 1938

On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.

Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia

Mar 18, 1938

in March 1938, the conquest of Czechoslovakia became Hitler's next ambition. The incorporation of the Sudetenland into National Socialist Germany left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak and it became powerless to resist subsequent occupation. On 16 March 1939, the German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia

Neville Chamberllain

Dec 17, 1938

He served as British prime minister from 1937 to 1940, and is best known for his policy of "appeasement" toward Adolf Hitler's Germany. He signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, relinquishing a region of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis.

Germany claims the Sudetenland

Dec 18, 1938

The Sudeten crisis of 1938 was provoked by the demands of Nazi Germany that the Sudetenland was their property. The government accepted these claims on 30 June 1938.

Munich conference (Appeasement)

Dec 18, 1938

Seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. Upon return to Britain, Chamberlain would declare that the meeting had achieved “peace in our time.”

Germany invasion of Poland

Sep 1, 1939

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany, was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi

Winston Churhill

Dec 18, 1940

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He led Britain's fight against Nazi Germany in World War II. Churchill was a talented orator, giving many stirring speeches to boost national morale during the war.

Pearl Harbor Attack

Dec 7, 1941

Japan attacked air force army and Hawaii basis in Oahu.

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

United States Entrence into WWll

Dec 7, 1941

Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu.

Vladimir Lenin

Jan 1, 1972

Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party. Leader of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and the architect, builder, and first head of Soviet Union.