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Benito Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
During ww1 he was the dictator in italy. Prior to that he was a evolutionary Socialist. He focused mainly on facist movements before his claim as a dictator. -
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
During WW2 he took a prominant role in creating the Nazi socialist party. He invaded many parts of Germany and started what we know as the Holocaust. -
Hitler Remilitarizes Rhineland
Hilter goes against the Treaty of Versatilies and goes back and make Rhineland a military zone for Germanay. This upsets many other nations after letting Germany join the league of nations. -
Germany annexes Austria
Germany wanted Austria to join forces with them and be come allies but when Austria did not like this idea Germany went into Austria and annexed it. Once that was done Hitler was able to take Austria under its government, keeping it that way until after ww2. -
Munich Pact
This was an agreement between Germany, Breat Britian, France and Italy that allowed for Germany to annex the territory of Sudetenland. The terrioty would be used to take control under Hitlers control. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany went in and took total control of the territory of Poland. This would start the beggining of the WW2. Hitler would set up securty forces in order to keep control of the perfect race. -
Germany conquers France
This was the offical Fall of France. Germany went invaded France wtih many mobile operations. There was two plans that Germany made in order to make sure that their attack would be effective -
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Battle of Britain
Units involved
Royal Air Force, Canada Royal Canadian, Air Force, Luftwaffe ,Regia Aeronautica
Location British airspace
Casualities
544 aircrew (RAF Fighter Command), 718 (RAF Bomber Command), 280 (RAF Coastal Command) killed[7][8][9]
422 aircrew wounded, 1,547 aircraft destroyed, 2,698 aircrew killed ,967 captured ,638 missing bodies identified by British authorities, 1,887 aircraft destroyed ,Around 90,000 civilian casualties, 40,000 of them fatal.
British victory.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan form the Axis Powers
The axis powers never really united to come up with plans on how to work together and win the war. The main focus was only to take land and make it theirs. Germany had dominance over most of the contenent of Europe, Italy had dominance over the Meditertarian Sea, and Japan had dominance over the Pacfic and East Asia -
Lend-Lease Act
This act allowed for army equipement to be sent out to other places in exchange for defense of the U.S. -
Germany invades the Soviet Union
The destruction of the Soviet union was because Germany felt that they were a threat to what Germany was trying to do. Germany sent in troops in order to destroy the soviet union. They then seized their land and made it Germany settlement. -
The U.S enters the war
U.S believed that Japan sent naval attacks. The U.S had remained peaceful with the nation as a whole and didn't want any envolvedment in the war, but after the naval attack the U.S had not choice but to enter the war. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor
On this day, hundereds of Japanese planes flew over the U.S Naval base and attacked it. Many army planes and ships were detroyed when this happened. Thousands of people either died or were badly injured. War was decleared on the U.S. This was the entery of the war for the U.S. -
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Battle of Midway
Midway Atoll
United States
Japan
1 carrier sunk
1 destroyer sunk
~150 aircraft destroyed
307 killed[3] 4 carriers sunk
1 heavy cruiser sunk
1 heavy cruiser damaged
248 aircraft destroyed[4]
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Battle of Stalingrad
This was considered the greast battle for the USSR in their Great Patriotic war. During the war this battle marked a turning point for the allied powers. This was one of the bloodiest wars with causilaties within the millions. -
Operation Torch
This was the name of the plan that was given to the allied powers in the invasion of the North French Africa. This was the first time that the British and the Americans had came together and created and invasion plan. -
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Tehran Conference
This was a meeting between Pres. FDR, Brisih Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin , which was held in Tehran, Iran. In the meeting they came up with stratagies to defeat the Axis powers. -
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Battle of the Bulge
The Ardennes: Belgium, Luxembourg
Allied victory
Approximately 3,000 civilians killed United Kingdom
France France
Canada
Belgium
Luxembourgish resistance
United States
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Yalta Conference
This was the second meeting beween the leaders of the allied power. This time as the war was coming closer to an end they were demanding that they end Germany, Italy, and Japan's power. -
V-E Day
Victory In Europe Day, this was the day the Germany finally surrender their power to the allied powers, ending WW2. -
The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On this day the first atomic bombed was dropped over on Hiroshima, this bomb destroyed 90% of the city and killed over 80,000 people and thousands later died after expsosure to radiation. Three days after another bomb would be dropped over the city of Nagasaki, this bomb killed about 40,000 people. Later the Emperor announced their surrender in the war. -
V-J Day
On this day Japan announced their surrender to the allied powers which caused the end of their time in WW2. -
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Nuremberg Trials
A number of 13 trials were held in order to prosecute all of the Nazi soldiers that were involved in killing of the jews and others within the concentration camps and the death camps. They were tried against many human injustices, many of them pleaded guiltiy , and some faced death and come imprisoned, and other took their own lives. -
Taft-Hartley Act
This act restricited all activity of the powers within the labor unions. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and 7 other European countries signed a treaty that allowed for the Soviet Union to be in control if of the armed forces during the Cold War.
