World war ii

THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR II

By Maria Perera
  • THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES SIGNED

    THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES SIGNED

    Germany reluctantly signed the Theaty as post of the Paris Peace Conference in the hall of mirrors at the palace of versailles.
  • THE GLOBAL DEPRESSION BEGINS

    THE GLOBAL DEPRESSION BEGINS

    The depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world.
  • HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR

    HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR

    President Hinderburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, as chancellor of Germany.
  • THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

    THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

    Started as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain.
  • ROME BERLIN AXIS: HITLER-MUSSOLINI ALLIANCE

    ROME BERLIN AXIS: HITLER-MUSSOLINI ALLIANCE

    Mussolini amounced from the Milan cathedral that Germsny and Italy had formed a Rome-Berlin Axis.
  • ANSCHLUSS WITH AUSTRIA

    ANSCHLUSS WITH AUSTRIA

    Austrian and German Nazis together attempled a coup. An authoritian right-wing government then took power in Austria.
  • THE MUNICH AGREEMENT

    THE MUNICH AGREEMENT

    British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edoudard Daladier sing the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Hitler.
  • NAZIS INVADE CZECHOSLOVAKIA

    NAZIS INVADE CZECHOSLOVAKIA

    Hitler's forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims.
  • THE NAZI-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT

    THE NAZI-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT

    Before World War II, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet union met and signed it.
  • NAZIS INVADED POLAND

    NAZIS INVADED POLAND

    Hitler's decision was a gamble. The Wehrmacht wasn't at full stregth and the German economy was still locked.