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The allies went at the Paris Peace Conference following WWI. They created the Treaty of Versalles and the League of Nations to hopefully keep peace in the world. -
The signers were China and the United States, Great Britain (for the British Empire), Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands.
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Mussolini was able to take control of Italy because King Victor Emmanuel III refused to support the fascist.
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They began at the Burgerbrau Keller in the Bavarian city of Munich, aiming to seize control of the state government, march on Berlin, and overthrow the German federal government. -
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 the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II.
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Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression (1929-39), the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time.
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Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia.
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This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check”; however, it would have disastrous results for Germany and the entire European continent.
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The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly, after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria.
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The death of President Hindenburg in August 1934, allowed him to combine both chancellor's and president's positions into one when Hitler became the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor.
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The Nazi leaders took advantage of the purge to kill other political enemies, primarily on the German nationalist right. Known as the “Night of the Long Knives” or “Operation Hummingbird,” the murders cemented an agreement between the Nazi regime and the German Army (Reichswehr) that enabled Hitler to proclaim himself Fuhrer of National Socialist Germany and to claim absolute power.
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Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles many times. The first time was over Germany armed forces.Then Rhineland.
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The Nuremberg Race Laws consisted of two pieces of legislation: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor.
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The aim to Italys invastion was to boost italtian national prestige. Italy had adapted Hitlers plan to expand german territories.
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The rhineland was supposeto be a non militarized zone acording to the Versillies. Hitler ordered troops to enter the Rhineland.
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Mussolini announced from the Milan cathedral that Germany and Italy had formed a Rome-Berlin Axis. This axis was set for the stage of WWII.
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German speaking nation for third reich.
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An agreement was made that Hitler could annex the Sudentland if he promised he wouldnt invade anywhere else.
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Great Britian, France, and Italy signed an agreement that allowed Nazis to annex part of Czechoslovakia.
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He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic.
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Warsaw surrendered to the Germans. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany
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Churchill gave a rousing speech to the British people, announcing: "... the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin." Four days later, France surrendered to Germany and Hitler turned his attention to Britain.
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the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union
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Nazi Germany and its Axis allies began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union named Operation Barbarossa
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hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question."
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This was an attempt from the Japanese military to completly destroy the american presence in the pacific, but their plan had back fired and they lost four aircraft carriers and a destroyer
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A wing of 16 B-25's attacks the japanese mainland lead by a decorated WWI veteren named James H.Doolittle
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This was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with casualitys reaching 2 million
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future President Dwight D. Eisenhower, then supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in World War II gives the go-ahead for a massive invasion of Europe called Operation Overlord. Back in America, President Franklin Roosevelt waited for word of the invasion's success.
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Used if Allied bombing of German cities or an uprising of forced laborers from occupied countries working in German factories resulted in a breakdown in law and order.
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German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region on the Western Front.
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burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol.
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The Western Allies crossed the Rhine after having smashed through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran West Germany.
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the bomb was used to shorten the war between the US and Japan
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dropped by the US on japan
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this day hosts the formal surrender of the Japanese government to the Allies. Victory over Japan was celebrated back in the States.
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handed down its verdicts in the trials of 22 Nazi leaders - eleven were given the death penalty, three were acquitted, three were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years. -
Trials begin on 28 Japanese officers on trials against humanity and war crimes
