Rise of Dictators and WWII Events

  • The Russian Revolution

    The Russian Revolution
    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.
  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese invasion of Manchuria
    The even where the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria
  • Germany troops moving into the Rhineland

    Germany troops moving into the Rhineland
    One of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles was that the Germans would not be able to keep military forces in a 50km stretch of the Rhineland. Hitler resented this term as it made Germany vulnerable to invasion.
  • Germany annexation of Austria

    Germany annexation of Austria
    Germany seize the Austrian goverment and force Germany and austria together.
  • The Munich Conference

    The Munich Conference
    The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.
  • Germany claim the Sudetenland

    Germany claim the Sudetenland
    Hitler claim the German ethnic part of Czechoslavika as an aggreement of appeasement.
  • Germany invasion of Czechoslavkia

    Germany invasion of Czechoslavkia
    Hitler annexed most of Czechoslavkia in preparation of an invasion of the rest of the land.
  • German invasion of Poland to start WWII

    German invasion of Poland to start WWII
    Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
    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.
  • The United States entrance into WWII

    The United States entrance into WWII
    The Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. The Japanese attack led to the US declaring war on Japan.