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Bolshevik Revolution
"October Revolution” Lenin led the Bolshevik party to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power for themselves -
Paris Peace Conference
Marked the beginning of peace talks for the victors and a number of peace treaties of World War I -
Treaty of Versailles signed
June 18 1919 Treaty of peace signed at the end of WWI -
Rapallo Treaty signed
Russia and Germany renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other -
Washington Naval Conference
All the wold powers come together to discuss teh disarmament of east Asia -
England refuses to renew its alliance with Japan
England was forced to cut ties with Japan -
Enigma Machine used in Britain
Britain adopts the machine as a standard method of encrypting messages -
Nazi Final Solution Developed
Hitler executes his plan to wipe out the Jewish people -
First concentration camps established
Nazi Germany's first concentration camp starts up -
Stalin begins military purges and The Great Terror
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Night of Long Knives
HItler was established as the supreme judge of Germany -
Hitler declares himself Vice Chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany
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Berlin Olympics
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Rape of Nanking
Japanese military massacred the Chinese people -
Hitler invades Austria
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Hitler invades the Sudetenland
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Munich Conference
A deal was made so Nazi Germany can annex parts of Czechoslovakia -
Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass" Attacks by Nazi Germany targeted at Ausrtrian Jews -
Hitler conquers the rest of Czechoslovakia
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Einstein writes a letter to FDR on the possibility of Atomic Weapons
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Nazi Soviet Anti-Aggression Pact
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US Neutrality Acts
The United States tries its last efforts to remain neutral in the war -
Hitler invades Poland
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
Effectively the start of WWII -
Winter War between Finland and Russia
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Scandanavian Wars
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Nazi occupation of Norway
Nazi Germany assumes control of Norway -
Winston Churchill Comes to power in England
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England -
Desert Campaigns in Africa Begin
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Defeat of French army by the Nazis
Germany occupies France with the French doing what they do best in wars (losing them) -
Battle of Britain
British forces fend off German air raids -
Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany invades Russia, only stopped by a scorched earth policy -
Pearl Harbor
The Imperial Japanese Navy Launches an attack on US forces in Hawaii, effectively bringing the US into the war. -
Manhattan Project Begins
US and few allied scientists begin research on atomic bombs -
FDR signs Executive order 9066, beginning Japanese internment
Allowed the government to ban anyone away from coastal areas -
Battle of Midway
One of the largest and most critical battles of the Pacific theater -
Nimitz and McArthur begin island hopping in the Pacific
They began to go from island to island when they saw Japan as a threat -
Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy
Mussolini took over Italy and brought along fascism -
D-Day
The historic allied invasion of Normandy France -
Operation Market Garden
Allies launch an unsuccessful offecnsive campaign -
Battle of the Bulge
A German offensive in the Ardennes lead to a trapped US force at Bastogne and the greatest armored movement of the war. -
US victory at Iwo Jima
US Navy secures the last major battle in the Pacific front -
Death of FDR
Franklin Delenor Roosevelt died of ailing health -
Hitler Commits Suicide
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Surrender of Germany
Nazi Germany signs a formal surrender -
First successful test of atomic bomb
The first atomic device detonated at the Trinity testing range. -
US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
An American B29 Superfortress drops the first devastating atomic bomb on the city causeing massive civilian devistation -
US drops another atomic bomb on Nagasaki
Another American B29 Superfortress drops a second atomic bomb yielding the same result. -
Surrender of Japan
Japan, running out of options, is forced to surrender on the deck of US naval ships, effectivly ending the war.
