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"October Revolution” Lenin led the Bolshevik party to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power for themselves
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Marked the beginning of peace talks for the victors and a number of peace treaties of World War I
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June 18 1919 Treaty of peace signed at the end of WWI
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Russia and Germany renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other
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All the wold powers come together to discuss teh disarmament of east Asia
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England was forced to cut ties with Japan
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Britain adopts the machine as a standard method of encrypting messages
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Hitler executes his plan to wipe out the Jewish people
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Nazi Germany's first concentration camp starts up
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HItler was established as the supreme judge of Germany
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Japanese military massacred the Chinese people
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A deal was made so Nazi Germany can annex parts of Czechoslovakia
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"Night of Broken Glass" Attacks by Nazi Germany targeted at Ausrtrian Jews
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The United States tries its last efforts to remain neutral in the war
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Effectively the start of WWII
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Nazi Germany assumes control of Norway
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Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England
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Germany occupies France with the French doing what they do best in wars (losing them)
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British forces fend off German air raids
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Nazi Germany invades Russia, only stopped by a scorched earth policy
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The Imperial Japanese Navy Launches an attack on US forces in Hawaii, effectively bringing the US into the war.
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US and few allied scientists begin research on atomic bombs
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Allowed the government to ban anyone away from coastal areas
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One of the largest and most critical battles of the Pacific theater
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They began to go from island to island when they saw Japan as a threat
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Mussolini took over Italy and brought along fascism
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The historic allied invasion of Normandy France
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Allies launch an unsuccessful offecnsive campaign
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A German offensive in the Ardennes lead to a trapped US force at Bastogne and the greatest armored movement of the war.
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US Navy secures the last major battle in the Pacific front
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Franklin Delenor Roosevelt died of ailing health
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Nazi Germany signs a formal surrender
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The first atomic device detonated at the Trinity testing range.
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An American B29 Superfortress drops the first devastating atomic bomb on the city causeing massive civilian devistation
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Another American B29 Superfortress drops a second atomic bomb yielding the same result.
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Japan, running out of options, is forced to surrender on the deck of US naval ships, effectivly ending the war.