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End of WW1
The First World War, also called the Great War, was a global military conflict, although centered in Europe, that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the conditions of the armistice. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. -
March on Rome and Mussolinni seized the power
March on Rome, the insurrection by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in late October 1922. The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals. -
Wall Street Crash
The crash of '29 was the most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the stock market in the United States. Its impact, its global reach and the long duration of its consequences caused the so-called Great Depression. -
Hitler Chancellor
Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. His appointment marked the beginning of the Nazi regime, which ultimately led to World War II and the Holocaust. -
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War or War of Spain, also known in that country as the Civil War par excellence or, simply, the War, was a military conflict. -
Great Purge
The Great Purge, although more commonly known in modern Russia as the Great Terror or more specifically as ежовщина, was the name given to the series of campaigns of political repression and persecution carried out in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. -
Beginning of WW2 because of the invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II. -
The united states enters World War ll
The United States entered World War II on December 8, 1941 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the day before. This led the United States to declare war on Japan and, subsequently, Germany and Italy, marking its entry into the conflict on the European front as well. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust - also known by its Hebrew term, Shoá - is the genocide carried out by the Nazi Germany regime against the Jews of Europe during the course of World War II. -
The suicide of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, in his bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, as Allied forces closed in on the city. He died by gunshot, along with his wife, Eva Braun. -
End of WW2 and Atomic bomb
World War II ended in 1945 with the surrender of Japan. This followed the dropping of two atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of that year. -
Death of Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, known as Benito Mussolini, was an Italian politician, military man and dictator, leader of the National Fascist Party and the Republican Fascist Party; and president of the Council of Royal Ministers of Italy from 1922 to 1943. -
The Nuremberg Trials begin
The Nuremberg Trials or Nuremberg Trials were a set of judicial processes undertaken at the initiative of the winning Allied nations at the end of World War II.