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In 1921, HItler was named leader of the Nazi Party.Hitler was becoming well known throughout Munich and sent out political supporters to help him gain voters.
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Benito Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy. At age 39, this made him the youngest Prime Minister of Italy until 2014.
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Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin) was the leader of the Soviet Union until his death in 1953.
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The Japanese took over Manchuria, China in 1931. This incident is commonly reffered to as the Manchurian Incident.
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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, chancellor of Gernany.
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A series of laws that were geared towards keeping the US out of another war.
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A colonial war that was faught between two armed forces (Kingdom of Italy and Ethiopian Empire).
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Japan thought that militarism should rule out political powers.
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Germany broke the rules of the treaty and invaded Rhineland in 1936.
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An episode of mass murders and mass rape committed by Japenese troops.
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Young German soilders round up the Jews so they could deport them to work/concetration camps.
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A settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.
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This "treaty" stated that these two countries would not attack eachother.
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The begining of what started a World War Two in Europe.
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Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, ostensibly as a preventive manoeuvre against a planned, and openly discussed, Franco-British occupation of Norway.
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The Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
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German forces invaded Norway and Denmark.
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The Selective Training and Service Act began the process by which fifteen million
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans.
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The Japanese invaded Vichy French Indochina in order to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms.
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A pivotal policy statement issued in August 14, 1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies of World War II.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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The Bataan Death March, which began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II
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The forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country.
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A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union.
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A crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943.
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A series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city, and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits.
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An Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943.
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The invasion by and establishment of Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II; the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place.
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A military conflict that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944.
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A major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
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The American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, during World War II.
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Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health.
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The public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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A name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.
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To try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of war crimes.
