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Paris Peace Conference
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the allies went to the Paris Peace conference following WWI. they created the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations to hopfully keep peace in the world. -
9 power treaty
9 power treaty signed in Washington D.C.. Signers were China, United Staes, Great Britian, Japan, Italy, France,Portugal,Belgium, and the Netherlands. Agreed to leave China alone and an Open Door Policy. -
mussolini takes over italys government
Armed squads of Blackshirts march on Rome. Left the parlimentary monarchy of King Emmanual III in confusion. King offers to run coalition government and proceeded to the capitla with 300,000 supporters in a black shirt. -
Beer Hall Putsch
this was an attempt by hitler to iber throw the weimer government of ebert and established a right wing nationalistic one in its place. -
Kellogg-Briand pact
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928. Sometimes called the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, the pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War, but it had little effect in stopping WWII -
U.S stock market crash
16 million shares were recorded on walstreet when black tuesday hit billions of us citizens were lost investors. -
Japan invades manchuria
Japan invaded the chinese in manchuria which is known as the manchurian incident. Japan wanted all control over the whole provence. Which would incaompass all of east asia. This is one of the causes of the start of WWII. -
Hitler is appointed Germanys chanceller
Hitler was the leader of Germany in January 30 1933, on this date the whole world would change. The brownshirts initiallly refused to make him chancellor but then he asked general kurt van shliecher. General shliecher was determined to get hitler into power which he did. -
japan withdraws from league of nations
Japan left the league of nations because no one helped him when china invaded manchuria. Matsuoka the japan leader said we are not coming back and he left the hall, he said that manchuria was a part of japan and not china, japan took manchuria from russia and made it to what it was. -
Nazis reach a political party in Germany
Political party of the mass movement was national socialism. The homebase was in bavaria and the party kept on growing and growing. The party started in 1933 in germany and stoped in 1945 -
rohm purge
the nazi party leader and the riech cancellor adolf hitler purged the nazi parlamilitary formation. Nazi leaders took advantage of the purge to kill any political enemies. These attacks were called Night of long knives or operation hummingbird. With this Hitler becamer the fuhrur and got absolute power. -
nuremberg laws
The Nazid announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theries prevalent in nazi ideas. So this means Germen jews couldnt have sex with a pure german with pure german blood. -
Italy invades ethiopia
Italy invades Ethiopia in hopes of annexing it. The League of nations does vitually nothing about these agressive actions. -
hitler militarizes the rhineland
German military goes over the Rhine River and enters the Rhinelnad. Hitler tells other countries he will do nothing else to break the treaty of Versailles. -
rome berlin axis
Hitler and Mussolini sign the "Pact of Steel", the axis powers are born. -
hitler annexes austria
Hitler marches into Austria accompanied by German troops. Austria is a German state until the end of the second World War, -
hitler demands sudetenland from czechloslovakia
Hitler demands Czechloslovakia and the immediate excavation of the population. The Czechs mobilizes the military the next day. War seemed very imminant at this point. -
Munich conference
The Munich Conference is where the Munich Pact was signed sealing fate of Czechloslovakia and giving it back to Germany. -
franco becomes dictator of spain.
Francisco FrancoFranco after successfully militarily taking over all of spain becomes dictator of Spain. -
Molotov rippentrop pact
This is the day Stalin and Hitler sign a non-agression pact which they do only for their own political needs. -
soviet nazi non agression pact
Germany and the Soviet Union signed agreed to a non-aggression pact. Meaning they would not attack eachother. -
nazi invasion of poland
After thenon-aggression pact was signed, Hitler sent troops into inade Poland. -
battle of britian
The defeated French singed an armistice and quit WWII. Britian now stood alone against German forces. -
lend lease act
Was the principal means of providing U.S. military aid to forgein nations during WWII. -
pearl harbor bombing
japaneese launded a suprise air attack on U.S. Naval base. 2,400 Americans were dead. 21 or more ships were sunk. -
wannsee conference
Also known as the final solution. It was a wide mass murder of the European jews. -
doolittle raid on japan
Air attack on Japan. The damage wasslight, but it boosted American morale. -
Battle of midway
Considered one of the most decisive battles fought in WWII. The battle destoyed Japans naval strength. -
operation barbarossa
Nazi Germany and its Axis powers began a massive attack on the Soviet Union called Operation Barbarossa. -
battle of stalingrad
Was the sucessful Soviet defence of the city of Stalingrad.Was the bloodiest battles in history. -
dday operation overlord
Was the code name given to the allied invasion of France. The commander of Operation overlord was General Dwight Eisenhower. -
operation valkrie
The "july plot" to assassinate hitler. Managed to arrest several germans involved in plotting the overthrow of Hitler. At least six attempts were aborted. -
nuremberg trials
these trials punished all the nazi leaders who killed jews called nuremberg laws. -
battle of the bulge
Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe by suprise blitzkrieg throught the Ardeenes to Antwerp. Hitler thought doing this would turn the war on his side. -
adolf hitler commits suicide
Hitler killed himself by biting down on a cyanide capsule and shooting himself with a pistol. Eva Braun, his wife, killed herself also. -
ve-day
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
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
Dropped on Japenese city, Nagasaki. It was the second nucular weapon used in war. -
v-day
Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. Effectially ending WWII. And is known as Victory over Japan day. -
vj-day
japan surrenders to the allies and WWII ends everyone is happy -
japenese war crime trials
japanese people gettting accused of war crimes during WWII. 25 of 28 japenese defendants were guilty
