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Mussolini Takes Power in Italy
Mussolini lead the country for a long time thru thick and thin. At the start of the second world war he tried to stay out but eventually jumped in once the UK and france were weak. -
Stalin Comes to Power in Russia
Dtalin was a very harsh ruler, he turned the country an entierly new way economicly and socialy. His tough rule made life tough for many Russians. -
Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market Crash sent the USA into a massive depression and the war helped us get out of it. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Japan's people run government was not strong and one of the generals disobyed orders and started an invasion on his own. -
Hitler Is Named Chancellor of Germany
Germany was a midst a massive depression after WWI, his strong words had the german people believing good things were coming. -
FDR is Elected President
After Hoovers failure FDR was the clear choice for the president, he was a great leader and would help the country out of the depression. -
The USA Passes the Neutrality Act
The acts were passed in order to prevent the US to having to become involved in the growing turmoil in Asia and Europe that eventually lead to WWII. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
The battle was faught and won by italy, however, its biggest impact was that it showed that the League of Nations was not very storng or good. -
Germany Remilitarizes the Rhineland
The remilitarization of the Rhineland occured when German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, marking the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region. -
Civil War Erupts In Spain
The war was betweeen the Republicans and the Nationalists of spain. It lasted for a period of over two years, The nationalists, backed by germany and other world powers would eventually prevail and take power in spain. -
Anschluss
This war Germany's annexation of Austria. Both sides had been wanting this for years but no one had stepped into action until now. -
The Munich Confrence
Germany was going to annex Czechoslovakia's most important land, so the major powers of Europe(minus Czechoslovakia) got together and agreed upon it. -
Germany Occupies the Sudetenland
As a result of the Munich Agreement, German troops complete their occupation of the Sudetenland. Having successfully claimed Austria in early 1938, Adolf Hitler turned to obtaining the ethnically German Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
The jewish race was attacked and destroyed in everyway, schools, buildings, places of worship were burnt and destroyed. Really started the collapse of the German Jew. -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
The pact guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war, the Soviet Union was awarded land, including parts of Poland and the Baltic States. -
Germany Invades Poland
This event was the start of the fighting that occured during World War II there is no denying it after this happened it started a chain of domions that lead to a huge war in Europe. -
The Phony War
Germany wadged war on the UK and France for their inactivity however none of the western powers actually ever attacked the two countries. -
Winston Churchill is Elected Prime Minister in England
After being elected during the war he had to make many qucik decsions to gain support. Many of them were highly supported throughout the country, however he did not have enough support to win the next election. -
France Surrenders
German forces arrived in an undefended Paris on 14 June and their commanders met with French officials who sought an alliance with Germany. On 22 June, an armistice was signed between France and Germany, which resulted in a division of France whereby Germany would occupy the north and west. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
It was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and the early hours of 4 June 1940, because the British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk in the Second World War. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and fall of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force. -
Japan Seizes French Indo-China
Japan captured the land in order to prevent China from being able to transport supplies, Japan won the conflict handily. -
The Lend- Lease Act
Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939 but nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941. -
The Atlantic Charter
The Charter set goals rather than a blueprint for the postwar world. It inspired many of the international agreements that shaped the world. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the post-war independence of European colonies, and much more are derived from the Atlantic Charter. -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Japan's attack on pearl harbor was one of the stupidest millitary moves of all time. After the attack the US decided to join the war and absolutely obliterated Japan giving them everything the deserved.
