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The Russian revolution
Got rid of Tsar and the Soviet Union was created. -
Joseph Stalin
Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase, which saw a significant rise in tension with the Western world that would later be known as the Cold War. -
Benito Mussolini
Since 1939, Mussolini had sought to delay a major war in Europe until at least 1942. Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II. -
vladimir Lenin
Recognised as one of the most significant and influential historical figures of the 20th century, Lenin remains a controversial and highly divisive world figure. -
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Japan was becoming croweded due to its rapid increase in population that's why they invaded Manchuria. -
Franklin Roosevelt
-known as FDR as well
- Roosevelt sought and obtained the quick approval, on December 8, of the United States Congress to declare war on Japan and, a few days later, on Germany. -
Adolf Hitler
He joined the precursor of the NSDAP, the German Workers' Party, in 1919 and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup in Munich to seize power. -
Germany troops moving into Rhineland
In January 1936 Adolf Hitler began to make plans for Germans to move troops to Rhineland. -
Nevile Chamberlain
Chamberlain pledged Britain to defend Poland's independence if the latter were attacked, an alliance that brought Britain into war when Germany attacked Poland in 1939. -
Germany claims Sudetenland
"The Sudeten crisis of 1938 was provoked by the demands of Nazi. The government accepted these claims on 30 June 1938." -
Winston Churchill
Churchill took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister
