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Leader of the Bolshevik party, the spearhead of the revolution.
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The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union.
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He served as the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Leader of the Soviet Union.
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An Iltalian dictator that rose to power as Prime Minister in 1922. He was leading propronent of Facism.
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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.
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Leader of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler rose to power over Germany.
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This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties, marking the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region.
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Served as the England's Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940, best known as his policy of "appeasment."
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German-dominated Austria-Hungary was dismembered and the Sudeten Germans found themselves living in the new country of Czechoslovakia.
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Began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement.
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In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.
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At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.
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President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S.
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War against Japan, Germany and Italy starting with the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The japanese attack Pearl Harbor which was on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident.The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland
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The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.
