Index

The Rise of Dictators & WW2

  • Weimar Republic

    Weimar Republic

    The Weimar Republic is established in Germany.
  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • Lenin & Stalin

    Lenin & Stalin

    Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin are shown at Lenin's estate at Gorki, near Moscow, Russia, in 1922.
  • Italy's Dictator

    Italy's Dictator

    After taking power, Mussolini was often seen in a military uniform. (Starting from 1922)
  • Italy

    Italy

    Mussolini and the Fascists Black-shirts are shown during the March on Rome in 1922.
  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini comes to power in Italy.
  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

    Italy was finally united as an independent country. Benito Mussolini ruled starting in 1920 and ending in 1940's.The fascist government of Benito Mussolini that took over in 1922 led to alliance with Germany and other Axis powers and ultimately Italy's defeat in World War II. In 1946 Italy became a democratic republic.
  • Nazi:Hitler

    Nazi:Hitler

    Adolf Hitler (left) is standing up behind Hermann Göring at a Nazi rally in Nuremberg, 1928.
  • USA annual real GDP from 1910–60

    USA annual real GDP from 1910–60

    The highlighted part shows the year the stock market crashed and how it decreased for that year.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Roosevelt was the president of America when the U.S. stock market crashed.
  • Result

    Result

    This is a mother of seven children. Hard times have hit the family.
  • U.S. Unemployment rate from 1910-1960

    U.S. Unemployment rate from 1910-1960

    The highlighted part shows the United States unemployment rates.
  • US Farm Prices, (1928–35)

    US Farm Prices, (1928–35)

    The graph shows how the prices increased and decreased throughout the years.
  • Result

    Result

    Crowds gather after the stock market crashes in 1929.
  • US industrial production (1928–39)

    US industrial production (1928–39)

    This graph shows the relationships throughout the years of production.
  • Joseph Stalin

    Stalin becomes the dictator of the Soviet Union.
  • Unemployed Demonstration

    Unemployed Demonstration

    People crowd the streets when they are umemployed for protestment.
  • Emperor Hirohito

    Emperor Hirohito

    Hirohito's Japan seizes Manchuria.
  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler

    Hitler is named chancellor of Germany.
  • Hitler:Chancellor

    Hitler:Chancellor

    Hitler is shown from a window of the Reich Chancellery receiving an ovation at his inauguration as Chancellor, 30 January 1933.
  • Hitler

    Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was in office from August 2, 1934- April 30, 1945.
  • Hitler: President

    Hitler: President

    In 1934, Hitler became Germany's president under the title Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor of the Reich).
  • Italy Movement

    Italy Movement

    Ethiopia is invaded by Italian forces.
  • Germany

    Germany

    Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles when Hitler invades Austria taking it for Germany.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference

    Germany, France, Britain, and Italy meet in Munich Germany. The Czechoslovakians aren't invited.
  • Hitler

    Hitler

    Hitler enters the German populated Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in October 1938 which was annexed to Germany proper due to the Munich agreement.
  • Stalin

    Stalin

    Stalin annexes the Balkans, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians.
  • Hitler & Stalin

    Hitler & Stalin

    Hitler and Stalin reach the non-aggression pact, removing a two front war.
  • Invation

    Invation

    Germany invades Poland. France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. This starts WWll.
  • Hitler

    Hitler

    Hitler invades Poland.
  • France & Britain

    France & Britain

    France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.
  • Soviet Union

    Soviet Union

    Stalin sends in one million troops to Finland, and in 1940, Finland surrenders.
  • Hitler

    Hitler

    Hitler launches an invasion of Denmark and Norway within two months.
  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill

    He became the prime minister of Great Britain.
  • Friends/Dictators

    Friends/Dictators

    Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini stand together in Italy in 1940. They were both buddies during the time they rose to power.
  • Hitler & Mussolini

    Hitler & Mussolini

    Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, Germany, ca. June 1940.
  • France

    France

    France surrenders to Germany. The Battle of Britain begins.
  • Hitler in Germany

    Hitler in Germany

    This shows Hitler in the German Army in 1914 sitting at right.
  • Tojo

    Tojo

    Hideki Tojo was the prime minister of Japan and held the most power.
  • Hideki Tojo

    Hideki Tojo

    Hideki Tojo Prime Minister – held real power in Japan.
  • Tojo: Japanese Dictator

    Tojo: Japanese Dictator

    General Tojo was in office from October 18, 1941- July 22, 1944.
  • Hitler Against Roosevelt

    Hitler Against Roosevelt

    Adolf Hitler is in Reichstag during his speech against Franklin D. Roosevelt on December 11, 1941.
  • Dictator

    Dictator

    Making demands- I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.” 1943, (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
  • Stalin

    Stalin

    March 5, 1953 Videoconferencing on Feb. 1935