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Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Bosnia. He was targeted due to the anger the Balkans had because Austria annexed Bosnia. -
The revolution took place due to peasants and low class workers revolting against the government of Tsar Nicholas II -
The conference was held to maintain peace after WWI. It was held outside of Paris -
Mussolini and his people attempted to cut off all lines of communication to the capital to prepare for a march on Rome to gain power. -
The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed takeover of the government in a state in southern Germany. It was a violent uprising attempt placed by Hitler. -
The Five Year Plan consisted of economic growth for the Soviet Union and the development of the Union, -
It was a war fought by Italy and Ethiopia which led Italy to invade Ethiopia. -
Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone in western Germany along the Rhine River. The Treaty of Versailles, which was established in July 1919, eight months after the weapons of World War I, fell silent, piercing reparations and other harsh peace terms on defeated Germany. -
The war fought by Spanish Republicans and left-wing groups against the nationalists, who were lead by Franco. The war lasted for 6 years and anywhere from 500-thousand to 1-million people were killed. -
Much of the city of Nanking was burned down and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army. Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” killed an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at the least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many who were killed in the process. -
The Nazis invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The Nazis justified the invasion by claiming that Poland had planned an invasion of Germany and spreading false reports that Poles were persecuting ethnic Germans. On September 17, the Soviet Union allied with Germany and invaded Poland. -
Marshal Henri Petain takes over as France's prime minister and declares his intent to sign an armistice with the Nazis. Petain, a World War I military hero, was named vice premier of France in May 1940 to raise morale in a nation that was collapsing under the weight of the Nazi invasion. Petain, on the other hand, negotiated an armistice with the Nazis. The armistice was signed on June 22 by the French. -
Japan launched an unprecedented assault on the US Navy. They sunk many ships and killed a good number of soldiers. This attack was the trigger for the United States involvement in World War II. -
The Battle of the Pacific was the Allies' first major offensive and a decisive victory in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops serving in this part of the Solomon Islands, US marines surprise-attacked and controlled an under-construction airbase. -
It was a military campaign between Nazi Germany, Russia, and the Axis Powers. It stopped Germans to invade Eastern Europe and Russia. It was also Germany's first loss in WWII. -
El Alamein is a small town in Egypt, west of Alexandria.
The German Afrika Korps was massed there when the British attacked from the east. -
British, American, and Canadian troops landed on five beaches along the Normandy region's extremely guarded coast. It was one of the most significant military assaults, which took excessive amounts of planning. -
The conference was held in Potsdam, Germany. It was a meeting with U.S president Harry Truman, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. They met to discuss the reparations that Germany should do on peaceful basis. -
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion killed an estimated 80,000 people. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
When international organization was formed to protect each other from aggression. It helped maintain international peace and security, protect Human rights, deliver humanitarian aid, support sustainable development and climate action, and uphold international law. -
It was a recovery program that President Truman signed for Europe which provided help to Western Europe after the WWII. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the U.S, Canada, and Western Europe to provide security from the Soviet Union. -
MacArthur was sent to oversee Japan’s restoration. He order Japan’s military to be disbanded and closed all weapons factories. He also helped Japan install a new democratic empire. -
The Warsaw Pact was formed by the Soviet Union as a defense treaty. It served as a counterbalance towards NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).