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  • Mussolini take power in Italy

    Mussolini take power in Italy

    Mussolini or "Il Duce" took power in Italy at this time and this is one of the key events to make WWII happen.
  • Stock Market Crashes

    Stock Market Crashes

    Known as "Black Teusday", this is the day where the stock market crashes and the beginning of the Depression.
  • Japan Seizes Manchuria

    Japan Seizes Manchuria

    Invaded by the Kwantung Army, established a puppet state called Manchukoku which lasted till the end of the war
  • FDR is elected president

    FDR is elected president

    This is the first time, of the four terms FDR served, where he became president of the US.
  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    This is the date when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
  • Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles

    Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles

    He did this because he watned to make Germany great again.
  • U.S. Neutrality Act

    U.S. Neutrality Act

    This allowed the U.S. to supply both sides of a war with war goods not taking any sides.
  • Italy invade Ethiopia

    Italy invade Ethiopia

    This is when Italy invaded Ethiopia, this is the second time in history that these two nations have fought each other in a war.
  • France Militarizes the Rhineland

    France Militarizes the Rhineland

    German troops entered the Rhineland which was important because this made Germany defy the Locarno Treaties
  • Civil War erupts in Spain

    Civil War erupts in Spain

    Broke out with a military uprising in Morocco, which was triggered by events in Madrid. It wsa divided into Republicans or Loyalists
  • Japan invades China

    This started the second Sino-Japanese War, the Kwantung Army turned a small scale attack into a full on war.
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss

    Occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference

    An agreement that permitted the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Known as "Night of Broken Glass" this is when German Officers targeted Jewish owned stores and broke their windows which made the streets covered in glass
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Pact

    This was the peace agreement that no one would attack eachother, but the Soviet soons learned that Hitler cannot be trusted.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Could also be referred as Semptember Campaign or 1939 Defensive War, but this is when Hitler takes his army and ivades Poland.
  • Churchill is Elected Prime Minister in England

    This is when Winston Churchill becomes prime minister in England.
  • Phony War

    Phony War

    This is the time before the actual war started and there was no fighting and it was all silent.
  • Miracle at Dunkirk

    Miracle at Dunkirk

    Also known as the Dunkirk Evacuation or Operation Dynamo, but this is when the British evacuated Allied soldiers off the beaches of Dunkirk.
  • France Surrenders

    France Surrenders

    This is when France has just had enough when Germany invades France and they just surrender their country to them.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    This is when the German Air Force attacked Britain in the summer of 1940.
  • Japan seizes French Indo-China

    Japan seizes French Indo-China

    Also known as the Vietnam Expedition, it was to prevent China from importing arms and fuels through French Indonesia.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    This is where the U.S. decided to lend our allies only with war goods between 1941 and 1945.
  • Atlantic Charter

    Atlantic Charter

    A policy statement by Winston Churchill stating what the Allied Nations want after the war.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor

    This is when Japan surprised the U.S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and attacked them, which also triggered the U.S. to enter the war.