The Rise Of Dictators & WWII Events

  • Vladimir Lenin

    A beloved Russian politic leader that came to power Jan 1,1917 after the Russain bloshevik party pushed out the leading gov at the time. He was loved by the people but died of stroke but many have proclaimed that stalin was his leading case of death.
  • The Russian Revolution

    By 1917, most Russians had lost faith in the leadership ability of Czar Nicholas II. Government corruption was rampant, the Russian economy remained backward, and Nicholas repeatedly dissolved the Duma, the Russian parliament established after the 1905 revolution, when it opposed his will. However, the immediate cause of the February Revolution–the first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917–was Russia’s disastrous involvement in World War I (1914-18). Militarily, imperial Russia was no match
  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was a young man that had avery troubled chiled hood. As a kid he had a grandma that cleaned house for a jewish man that would violate her. He tried to become a art major as a young man, but failed horribly. He then went on search for a new outlook finding a party called N.A.Z.I. From that point on he made his ways up the latters into the political office.
  • Benito Mussolini

    During the times of WWII
  • Joseph Stalin

    During the rise of lenin his right hand man, stalin, was next to rise to power. After the death of lenin in april , 1 1924, stalin rose to power in nov 1 , 1925. Becoming one of the most ruthless leaders russia was known to have. Completely disgarding the wishes of lenin for a democratic gov, and going with a communism aproach
  • Japanese Invasion Of Manchuia

    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. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
  • Franklin Roosevelt

    As World War II loomed after 1938, with the Japanese invasion of China and the aggression of Nazi Germany, Roosevelt gave strong diplomatic and financial support to China and the United Kingdom, while remaining officially neutral. His goal was to make America the "Arsenal of Democracy", which would supply munitions to the Allies. In March 1941, Roosevelt, with Congressional approval, provided Lend-Lease aid to Britain and China. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, whic
  • Germany moving troops into the Rhineland

    March 1936 denounced the Locarno Pact and began remilitarizing of the Rhineland. Two years later, Nazi Germany burst out of its territories, absorbing Austria and portions of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
  • germany annexation of austria

    On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
  • germany claims the sudetenand

    The Sudeten crisis of 1938 was provoked by the demands of Nazi Germany that the Sudetenland be annexed to Germany, which in fact took place after the later infamous Munich Agreement. When Czechoslovakia was reconstituted after the Second World War, the Sudeten Germans were largely expelled, and the region today is inhabited primarily by Czech speakers.
  • Neville Chamberlain

    Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister of Great Britain in September 1939 as Europe descended intoWorld War Two after the failure of appeasement in the late 1930’s. Chamberlain paid a political price for the failure of Britain in Norway in the spring of 1940 and resigned as Prime Minister to be succeeded by Winston Churchill. He died shortly afterwards
  • germany invasion of czechoslovakia

    On September 30, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. Although the agreement was to give into Hitler’s hands only the Sudentenland, that part of Czechoslovakia where 3 million ethnic Germans lived, it also handed over to the Nazi war machine 66 percent of Czechoslovakia’s coal, 70 percent of it
  • Winston Churchill

    Churchill, who was known for his military leadership ability, was appointed British prime minister in his place. He formed an all-party coalition and quickly won the popular support of Britons. On May 13, in his first speech before the House of Commons, Prime Minister Churchill declared that “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat” and offered an outline of his bold plans for British resistance. In the first year of his administration, Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany,
  • Pearl Habor Attack

    On the date of Dec 7, 1941 japan sent a flock of over 200 fight planes to the coast of Oahu, Pearl Harbor to bomb the army base, setting the offical date that the USA enterd WWII.