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World War II

  • Paris Peace Conference

    Paris Peace Conference
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    The Allies went to the Paris Peace Conference following WWI. They created the Treay of Versailles and the League of Nations to hopefully keep peace in the world.
  • Nine Power Treaty

    Nine Power Treaty
    The signers were China and the US, Great Britain, Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands, who agreed to respect the sovereignty, independence, and territorial and administrative integrity of China.
  • Mussolini takes over Italy's Government

    Mussolini takes over Italy's Government
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    He was a National Fascist Party leader.
  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Beer Hall Putsch
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    Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempted coup d'état which came to be known as the Beer Hall Putsch. They began at the Bürgerbräu Keller in the Bavarian city of Munich, aiming to seize control of the state government, march on Berlin, and overthrow the German federal government.
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    Kellogg-Briand Pact
    agreement, signed Aug. 27, 1928, condemning "recourse to war for the solution of international controversies." It is more properly known as the Pact of Paris.
  • U.S. Stock Market Crash

    U.S. Stock Market Crash
    People fear which causes them to sell their goods which makes them loose money and when noone is buying causes you to not make any money peeoples fears causing them to sell (loose money)
  • Japan Invades Manchuria

    Japan Invades Manchuria
    In 1931, the 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. This proved to be one of the causes of World War IIs(1).
  • Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany

    Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany
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    Hitler wants his people to be dedicated and devote their lives to what he belives in
  • Hitler is appointed Germany's Chancellor

    Hitler is appointed Germany's Chancellor
    Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg. This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check”;
  • Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations

    Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
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    The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria.
  • Rohm Purge

    Rohm Purge
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    Hitler wanted all the leaders to compete with each other for senior positions. he was one of them (Pohm)
  • Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles

    Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles
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    Germany was not to build up an Army which he did.Germany was not build and ownmilitary fighting equipment, planes, ships, subs, or create weapons andammunition. They did that.Germany was never to invade another nation
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
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    were anti-Jewish statutes enacted by Germany, marking a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing Jewish influences from Aryan society.
  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia
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    he had grandiose ideas of building a "new Roman Empire," and being the new Julius Caesar.
  • Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland

    Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
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    was to show the public in Germany that Hitler wasputting right' the wrongs of Versailles
  • Franco becomes Dictator of Spain

    Franco becomes Dictator of Spain
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    He was the commander of the troops that rebelled against the socialist/ communist 'Popular Front' government
  • Rome-Berlin Axis

    Rome-Berlin Axis
    The Axis powers, also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or the Axis, were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.
  • Germany Annexes Austria

    Germany Annexes Austria
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    German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
  • Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

    Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
    leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans.
  • Soviet-Nazi Non-aggression pact

    Soviet-Nazi Non-aggression pact
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    Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
  • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

    Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
    agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany colloquially named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.
  • Nazi invasion of Poland

    Nazi invasion of Poland
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    German forces have invaded Poland and its planes have bombed Polish cities, including the capital, Warsaw.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act
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    Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa
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    Nazi Germany and its Axis allies began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union
  • Pearl Harbor Bombing

    Pearl Harbor Bombing
    hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
  • Doolittle Raid

    Doolittle Raid
    air attack on Japan, launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet and led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, was the most daring operation yet undertaken by the United States in the young Pacific War. Though conceived as a diversion that would also boost American and allied morale, the raid generated strategic benefits that far outweighed its limited goals.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad
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    was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) 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.
  • D-Day and Operation Overlord

    D-Day and Operation Overlord
    Operation Overlord was the code-name given to the Allied invasion of France
  • Operation Valkyrie

    Operation Valkyrie
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    was a German World War II emergency continuity of government operations plan issued to the Territorial Reserve Army of Germany to execute and implement in case of a general breakdown in civil order of the nation.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
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    was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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    Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day
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    The VE day refers to the Victory in Europe Day. This day remembers the date May 8, 1945 which is normally May 7 in commonwealth countries. This is the day when the categorical surrender of the Nazi army was officially accepted by the allied armies
  • Little Boy Dropped

    Little Boy Dropped
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    an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout
  • Fat Man Dropped

    Fat Man Dropped
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    was the last major act of World War Two and within days the Japanese had surrendered.
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day
    Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event
  • Japanese War Crime Trials

    Japanese War Crime Trials
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    The Major War Criminals' Trial: 1945-46. The best-known of the Nuremberg trials was the Trial of Major War Criminals
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials
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    The Major War Criminals' Trial: 1945-46. The best-known of the Nuremberg trials was the Trial of Major War Criminals,