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Treaty of Versailles is signed
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on the date of May 7, 1919 exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. -
Mussolini take power in Italy
Benito Mussolini is appointed the new prime minsiter of Italy. He is the one prime minister who led the Facist party and turned Italy into a Facist country. Mussolini’s military adventures in Libya, Ethiopia and Albania made Italy more powerful in the Mediterranean region, though it made his armed forces by the late 1930s. Mussolini allied himself with Hitler,but he was killed shortly after the German surrender in Italy in 1945 -
The Stock Market Crash
The stock market crash started on October 29, 1929. Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as many of the investors traded 16 million shares on the New York stock exchange. Billions of dollars were lost from investing and wiping out thousands of investors. After, the crash the great depresiion started and everything went spiraled down. -
Japan invades Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. Their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler is now named as the Chancellor of Germany. Under Hitler, Germany soon would start World War II wiht the invasion of Poalnd and would start rounding up all the jewish people, for what we know it was known as the Holocaust. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The Italian army invades Ethipia in Africa. Ethiopia's military was very outdated, so the Italy army won very easily against them. Italy soon captured Ethiopia making them a true country. -
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 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. -
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War, military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative parties within the country. After, that Spain started fighting in the civil war. -
Rome-Berlin Axis is signed
Rome-Berlin Axis, Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. Started on October 21, 1936. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936. -
Munich Conference
The Munich pact is signed by Adolf Hitler and the Prime Minister. It also gave the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. The picture represents them at the conference and signing the pact. This treaty made them vunerable of not fighting each other. -
Anschluss
Anschluss was the Nazi propaganda term for the invasion and forced incorporation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938.The 1938 Anschluss stands to the Anschluss movement and Germany united as one country.Initially attempted in 1918, when the Republic of German and Austria attempted union with Germany. -
Germany invades Czechoslovakia
Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia, a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was an attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims. On March 15, 1939, during a meeting with the Czech President, a man considered weak, Hitler threatened a bombing raid against Prague, the Czech capital,unless he obtained from Hacha free passage for German troops into Czech borders. -
The Soviet-Nazi Pact
On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two war in the soon to begin World War II. -
The Invasion Of Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. In a response to that Britian and France delcared war or Germany. -
Britain declares war on Germany
On September 3, 1939 German troops swarmed across the Polish border and unleashed the first Blitzkrieg the world had seen. Hitler had been planning his attack since March ever since German troops occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia. The Poles suspected as much and readied their defenses -
Canada Enters War (WW2)
On 10 September 1939, the country of Canada declared war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of World War II. And the beginning of Canada's participation in the largest combined national effort in its history. By the war's end, over 1.6 million citizens would serve in military uniform in the war for Canada.
