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Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of germany and starts to build an army. Even though britian and france knew this they didnt want to intervine incase of starting another world war.
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He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism.
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He managed to get power after the death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin's criticisms and expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. By the late 1920s, he was the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 onward.
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The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
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On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany.
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The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II.
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Under Generals Rodolfo Graziani and Pietro Badoglio, the invading forces steadily pushed back the ill-armed and poorly trained Ethiopian army.
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The military took control of japan in an effort to strengthen japans nation.
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German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was important because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, marking the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region.
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Japan's army ransacks Nanjing, kill a quarter of a million people.
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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.
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The Nazis began to put jews into labor camps.
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representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
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Britian and France declared war on germany for invading poland after being warned.
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The Battle of the Netherlands was part of Case Yellow, the German invasion of the Low Countries.
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The successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries.
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It was the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date.
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This draft was created for the army to force recuirts into the army even during peace.
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Hitler invades Russia for its natrual resources.
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The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement that defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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Indochinese Federation was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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This was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war.
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THis was one of the turning points of world war 2.
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The americans started up isolation camps in fear that local americans that have japenese ancestory.
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The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II.
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The allied forces defeated the german/italian armies.
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The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California.
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Mussolini was relieved of his duty as prime minister.
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The landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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The Liberation of Paris lasted until the occupying German garrison surrendered.
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The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium.
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On this day in 1944, more than 100,000 American soldiers land on Leyte Island, in the Philippines, as preparation for the major invasion by Gen.
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As president, Truman made important foreign policy decisions such as using atomic weapons on Japan to end World War II.
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Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day or VE Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945.
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The surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of World War II to a close.
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The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945.
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The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, also known as the Tokyo Trials, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, or simply the Tribunal, was convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of war crimes.
