World War II

Paris Peace Conference

Jan 18, 1919

for more information click here The Allies went to the Paris Peace Confrence following WWI. They created the treaty of Versailes and the League of NAtions to hopefully keep peace in the world.

Nine Power Treaty

Feb 6, 1922

nine pwer treaty sighned at washington D.C

Mussolini takes over Italy's Government

Oct 28, 1922

After so many marches on italy he took it over.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Oct 27, 1923

More commonly known as the "pact of paris" foreign minister of France, proposed to the U.S. government a treaty outlawing war between the two countries.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Aug 27, 1928

More commonly known as the Pact of Paris. In June, 1927, Aristide Briand, foreign minister of France, proposed to the U.S. government a treaty outlawing war between the two countries. Frank B. Kellogg, the U.S. Secretary of State, returned a proposal for a general pact against war, and after prolonged negotiations the Pact of Paris was signed by 15 nations.

U.S. Stock Market Crash

Oct 18, 1929

stock market went down the drain

Japan Invades Manchuria

Sep 7, 1931

1945, the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army.

Hitler is appointed Germany's Chancellor

Jan 30, 1933

President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.

Beer Hall Putsch

Nov 9, 1933

Hitler had a revolution to seize power of the baverian state government. Then staging a larger revolution against the Wienmar Republic. Hitler fled to the house of his friend Ernst Hanfstaengl, where he was repordatly talked out of commiting suidide. Hitler was tried in February 26, 1924 and sentenced to five years i the Landsberg prison. Hitler got an early release from his sentence.

Rohm Purge

Jun 30, 1934

hitler assassinates members of his own nazi party who he thought had the potentail to beacome political enemys in the future

Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles

Mar 15, 1935

Hitler held a cabinet meeting and also assembled members of the Army's General Staff to make huge army.

Nuremberg Laws

Sep 15, 1935

German Jews are stripped of their citizenship, reducing them to mere "subjects" of the state.

Italy invades Ethiopia

Oct 3, 1935

Ethiopia was one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. 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.

Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Hitler ordered that his troops should openly re-enter the Rhineland, breaking the treaty of Versailles again

Franco becomes Dictator of Spain

Oct 1, 1936

Franco was named the dictator of Spain.

Rome-Berlin Axis

Oct 25, 1936

Hitler and Mussolini made an alliance and publicly announced it.

Germany Annexes Austria

Mar 12, 1938

Germany annexed, or "connected" Austria into the third reich. Germany forced a Union onto Austria defying the peace treatiez that stopped WWII. Austria let the Nazi party into its cabinet but Hitler was not satisfied.

Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

Sep 22, 1938

Britain, France, and Italy signed an agreement allowing Hitler to annex the Sudetenland.

Munich Conference

Sep 30, 1938

This was the agreeement signed by Great Britain, France, and Italy that allowed Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovokia such as the Sudetenland.

Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany

Aug 2, 1939

Germany citesens turn into nazis or die

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Aug 19, 1939

germany trades with the USSR

Nazi invasion of Poland

Dec 17, 1939

Hitler sent troops into invade Poland.

Battle of Britain

Jun 17, 1940

britans by itsself now.

Lend Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

many countrys got wepons from this law

Operation Barbarossa

Jun 22, 1941

history repeted itself with germanys inviation of the soviet union with overwelming force only to freeze to death

Peral Harbor Bombing

Dec 7, 1941

this is when the u.s. joined the war beacuse japan bombed pearl harbor.

Wannsee Conference

Jan 20, 1942

Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question." Where most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and exterminated.

Doolittle Raid

Apr 18, 1942

Was also known as the Tokyo Raid, it was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands.

Battle of Midway

Jun 4, 1942

The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush, causing permanent damage on the Japanease Navy.

Battle of Stalingrad

Jul 17, 1942

It was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd). It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. It was one of the bloodiest battles in history killing nearly 2 million.

Operation Valkyrie

Jul 20, 1943

During World War II German military officials planned to murder Adolf Hitler and then take control of his government. This plan failed when a bomb planted in a briefcase went off but did not kill Hitler.

D-Day and Operation Overlord

Jun 6, 1944

On D-Day the Allies liberated Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. The battle began when American, British and Canadian forces invaded five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the coast of France’s Normandy region.

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

Also known as Operation Mist this battle was meant to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. It was called the Battle of the Bulge because the Germans created a bulge around a part of the Ardennes forest.

Adolf Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler killed himself by biting down on a cyanide capsule and shooting himself with a pistol. Eva Braun, his mistress also killed herself.

V-E day

May 8, 1945

This marks the day of victory in Europe. Which also marks the formal end of Hitlers war. Many celebrated, some by partying, some by reflection.

Little Boy Dropped

Aug 6, 1945

On 8:15 a.m. An American B-29 bomber, and the Enola Gay, dropped the worlds first atom bomb on the city of Hiroshima. About 80,000 were killed directly and another 35,000 were injured.

Fat Man Dropped

Aug 9, 1945

Dropped on Japenese city, Nagasaki. It was the second nucular weapon used in war.

V-day

Aug 14, 1945

Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Effectially ending WWII. And is known as Victory over Japan day.

Nuremberg Trials

Nov 20, 1945

Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, there wasa series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg.

Japanese War Crime Trials

May 3, 1946

During these court trials, 28 Japanese Military and Government officials were accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II. 25 out o fhte 28 Japanese were guilty. 2 of the other 3 died during trial, and the 3rd was declared insane.