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Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles was a main agreement to the end of World War I. The agreement was between Germany and the Allied Powers. Signed 5 years after the assassination Franz Ferdinand. Germany had to pay for reparations caused in the war. -
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the "Nazi" Party
Adolf Hitler became the new leader of the Nazi Party. He takes charge of what is Germany.This is a key event because he is a major person in WWII. He becomes a national symbol of violence and segregation in Europe and the whole world. -
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Germany admitted to League of Nations.
The Allies founded the League as a method of avoiding war. When the League was set up, Germany was excluded from joining. Germany, after the Locarno Pact 1925 managed to secure negotiations for Germany to join. In September 1926, Germany was admitted to the League, to join all the other great powers. -
Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.
The stock market crash of 1929 (considered the worst economic event in world history) began on Thursday, October 24, 1929, with skittish investors trading a record 12.9 million shares. On October 28, dubbed “Black Monday,” the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged nearly 13% -
Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.
The Enabling Act was a 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the German Cabinet, in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. -
Germans making Nazis the 2nd largest political party in Germany
Germans elected the Nazis as the 2nd largest political party. This made way for any Nazi leader to become German leader. This made the whole world take notice of Germany. -
Franklin Roosevelt became U.S. President
Franklin Roosevelt became U.S. President. He beat out Herbert Hoover in a landslide. He became the 32nd President of the U.S. He was famously known as "FDR" -
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
After the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month, President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
First Concentration camp was opened outside of Berlin
The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 3, 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist government. Heinrich Himmler, as police president of Munich, officially described the camp as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners." -
Nazi becomes the only Political Party in Germany.
Hitler after given the dictatorial power in Germany makes the Nazis the only political party. He wanted to expand the Nazi power everywhere. This leads to a really unfair Germany. -
Germany leaves the League of Nations
Germany left the League of Nations. They left because they didn't want to be a part of "unfair" agreements. Germany felt betrayed by any agreement against them. That is why they decided to just not be a part of this. -
Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription.
The first way Hitler broke the Treaty was over Germany’s armed forces. In 1934, he destroyed the League of Nations Disarmament Conference by demanding equality of arms with France and Britain, this broke the Treaty because it had set up the League with the stated aim of achieving disarmament. At first, Hitler broke the Treaty’s terms by building up his army in secret, drilling volunteers with spades instead of rifles. -
The Nuremburg Race Laws
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. This took away the rights of Jews in Germany. -
Mussolini's Italian forces take Ethiopia.
A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia -
Olympic games in Berlin
The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The 1936 Olympics were held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere. The Nazi Party had risen to power. This was famous for the "Jesse Owens" story. -
Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.
The attack came after Herschel Grynszpan, a 17 year old Jew living in Paris, shot and killed a member of the German Embassy staff there in retaliation for the poor treatment his father and his family suffered at the hands of the Nazis in Germany. -
Nazis invade poland.
The Invasion of Poland was known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. -
Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations
The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations following the pact with Germany and aggression against Finland. The Soviet Union only became a member of the League of Nations in 1934, a year after Germany left, and was expelled from the League on 14 December 1939 for aggression against Finland. This resulted them leaving due to their actions. -
Italians invade Egypt
The Italian invasion of Egypt was an offensive in the Second World War, against British, Commonwealth and Free French forces in Egypt. The invasion by the Italian 10th Army ended border skirmishing on the frontier and began the Western Desert Campaign proper.The result led to an Italian Victory. -
All American Attack
The USAAF made its first raid on Occupied Europe. The USAAF began building up its air forces in Europe using B-17Es soon after entering the war. The first Eighth Air Force units arrived in High Wycombe, England, on 12 May 1942, to form the 97th Bomb Group. The lead aircraft was piloted by Major Paul Tibbets. -
Soviet troops advance into Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Germany invaded Poland from the west.It was secretly approved by Germany following the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939. ... The area was under German occupation until the Red Army reconquered it in the summer of 1944. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler knew the end was on it's way. He began to burn any important documents that had important information. He then request a soldier to shoot him and his wife and burn them immediately. He left everything he had to Martin Bormann -
Bombing on Hiroshima
First Atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima Japan. An American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. This atomic bomb wiped out nearly 90% of the city.It also killed 80,000 people.
