Rise of Dictators WW2 Events By anthonybmxs Apr 22, 1870 Vladimir Lenin Mar 8, 1917 The Russian Revolution Jan 1, 1922 Joseph Stalin Stalin Was General Secretary in 1922 till his death in 1953 Dec 18, 1925 Benito Mussolini Seized dictorialship 1925 Sep 18, 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria Jan 1, 1933 Franklin Roosevelt Presidency Jan 17, 1933 Adolf Hitler Attained chancler in 1933 Mar 7, 1936 Germany moving troops into Rhineland Mar 12, 1938 Germany Annexeation of Austria Sep 30, 1938 The Munich Conference (Appeasment) Oct 10, 1938 Germany Claims the Sudetenland Mar 15, 1939 Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia Sep 1, 1939 Germany invasion of Poland to start WWII May 10, 1940 Neville Chamberlain May 10, 1940 WInston Churchill Same date as Chamberlain Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941 The United States entrance into WWII