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Mussolini takes power in Italy
In 1922 a powerful young man took over power in Italy. His name was Benito Mussolini. He promised to give pride and power back to Italy. His Fascist army took over the country and Mussolini bacame dictator. -
U.S. stock market crash
also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 12-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries and did not end in the United States until 1947. -
Japan Seizes Manchuria
when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukoku, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
FDR is elected President
Roosevelt won by a landslide, and this critical election marked the collapse of the Fourth Party System or Progressive Era. The voters soon were realigned into the Fifth Party System, dominated by Roosevelt's New Deal Coalition.This was the first election in the United States since 1876 in which the Democratic candidate won a majority of the popular vote. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles
When World War I ended. The treaty of Versailles was signed. In the treaty it said that Germany was to blame for the war and had to shut down all war- related industries. But when Hitler came in power in 1933 he opened back the industries behind everybodies backs. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
This was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa. -
France militarizes the Rhineland
Knowing that the germans were going to move into the Rhineland, the French had to make a decision wether or not to go to war with them. After a years wait, the French decided to also move into the Rhineland -
Civil War erupts in Spain
The Spanish Civil War broke out with a military uprising in Morocco on July 17, triggered by events in Madrid. Within days, Spain was divided in two -
Japna invades China
This was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States -
Anschluss
was the occupation and annexation of the German Republic Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom or series of co-ordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA stormtroopers and civilians. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
the Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed in Moscow. Under the terms of the agreement, both countries promised to remain neutral if either country became involved in a war. -
Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe. The invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. -
Phony War
The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II—in the months following Britain and France's declaration of war on Germany in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940—that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German Reich. -
U.S. Neutrality act
This act allowed for arms trade wtih belligerent nations on a cash and carry basis. -
Churchill is elected Prime Minister in England
He was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century -
Miracle at Dunkirk
code-named Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 26 May and the early hours of 3 June 1940, because the British, French and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk. -
France surrenders
The Armistice is signed. Under its terms, France is occupied by Germany and the French army is stripped. france has to undergo the cost of German invasion -
Japan seizes French IndoChina
Also known as the Vietnam Expedition, was a move by the Empire of Japan in September 1940, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, to prevent China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina -
Battle of Britain
This was the first major battle to be fought by air forces and was the biggest bombing raid. german tactics were to bomb important political places, factories and airports. Britain came away with the win against the Luftwaffe. -
Atlantic Charter
This defined the Allied goals for the post war world. It was drafted by britain and the U.S. and later agreed to by all the allies. -
Lend-Lease act
This act was the program under which the united states supplied the U.K., the Soviet Union, China, France and other allied nations with materials they need for war. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
this was when the Japenese attacked the U.S. naval base in Hawaii. this was the base for our entire Pacific fleet. This fleet was crippled after the bombing.
