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Mussolini takes power in Italy
Mussolini had promised to fight alongside of Adolf Hitler in any against the democracies of the world. His army was weak and ill prepared for way and were quickly defeated by the Italians. -
The U.S. stock market crashed
The day the stock market crashed, every american who had money in the stock market lost it all. It signaled the start of what was soon to become World War 2. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Japan invading Manchuria was bad and they shouldnt have done it. it destroyed. Japan won and took over Manchuria. -
FDR is elected president
FDR beats Herbert Hoover in a landslide. Everyone thought a new president was going to solve the issues of the great depression.
The american people learn later that it wasnt all Hoover's fault. -
Hitler is named chancellor of Germany
Hitler's plan embraced by much of the germans, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful one-party state. -
The U.S. passes the Neutrality Act
It imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war. It also declared that citizens should travel at their own risk. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The Italians were successful at occupying Ethiopia, the Abyssinians did not surrender to the italian forces. -
Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland
Military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it deminished the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties. This was the first time Germany troops had been there since world war 1 -
Civil War erupts in Spain
There were about 50,000 casualties just of people who were'nt sure what side to pick. The nationalists captures the main Spanish Naval Base at Ferrel in Northwestern Spain. -
Anschluss
Germany wanted the land and Austria's leader thought there should be a vote. -
The Munich Conference
The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudentenland in the face of territorial demands made by Adolf Hitler. -
German occupies the Sudetenland
Germany took posession of the Sudetenland, and part of Czhecoslovakia whose majority of the population was German ancestery. -
Kristallnacht
It was an attack on all the jews throughout Germany. At least 91 jews were killed in the attacks and later 30,000 jews were killed at the concentration camps. -
Stalin comes to power in Russia
Stalin made a non aggression pact with Nazi Germany. -
The Naz-Soviet Pact
Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet union came together and made a pact, saying that the two countries would not attack eachother. -
Germany Invades Poland
This completely destroyed the pact they just made and ruined everything for Poland. -
The "Phony War"
It was a phase early in World War 2 that was marked my a lack of military operations for the Western Allies against the German Reich. -
Miracle at Dunkirk
It was code named Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of all Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk. -
Japan seizes French Indo-China
Japan attacked French holding the coast in aircraft carriers. Japan forces remained in Indo-China til the end of World War 2. -
France surrenders
They had lost almost 60,000 soldiers including an infantry division that was completely crushed while protecting the reimbarkment of the British Expeditionary Force in the pocket of Dunkirk. -
The Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britian was the first campaign to be fought entirely by air forces and was the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to date. -
Churchill is elected prime minister of England
Winston Churchill refused to surrender to the Germans in World War 2, he built up british morale, and became a central source for the allies. -
The Lend-Lease Act
The program in which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the soviet union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations between 1941-1945. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep U.S. Fleets from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
The Atlantic Charter
The Charter started the ideal goals for the war: no territorial aggrandizement, no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people, restoration of self-government to those who deprived it, reduction of trade restrictions, freedom of the seas, and abandonment of the use of force.
