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The Allied powers met at the Palace of Versallie to create the Treaty of Versailles ending WWI. The Treaty created the League of Nations that was supposed to keep peace after WWI. -
A treaty created by The United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal on respecting the sovereignty, independence, and territorial and administrative integrity of China.
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He considered the creation of facism and a influence from his close ally Adolf Hitler.
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A failed attempt to take over the government in Bavaria lead by Adolf Hitler. -
Was an agreement to outlaw war, sometimes called Pact of Paris for the city it was signed in.
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After The U.S. Stock Market it put the U.S. in a depression known as the Great Depression joining the rest of the world. -
The Japanese army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria, This was an attempt for the Japanese army to gain total control of the whole province.
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and brings an end to Democracy.
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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany -
As a result of the Manchurian incident Japan withdrew from The Leauge of Nations.
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Hitler started to build up his military because he thought that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair to Germany.
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This was a huge purge that happened in Germany that murdered many political leaders within the country.
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These laws were anti-Jewish statuses enacted on by Germany, removing Jewish influence from the country.
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Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
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General Francisco Franco is named head of the rebel Nationalist government in Spain. It would take more than two years for Franco to defeat the Republicans in the civil war and become ruler of all of Spain.
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
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The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. Czechoslovakia was not however invited to this conference.
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Hitler believed that this was land the belong to Germany but was taken away from them.
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Italy and Germany agree to a military and political alliance, giving birth formally to the Axis powers.
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A peace agreement between Germany and the Soviets.
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To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or "living space," for the German people. According to his plan, the "racially superior" Germans would colonize the territory and the native Slavs would be enslaved.
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German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date.
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Mussolini's forces finally cross the Libyan border into Egypt, achieving what the Duce calls the "glory" Italy had sought for three centuries
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program, which provides money and materials for allies in the war, goes into effect.
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Adolf Hitler launched his armies east in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, 3 great army groups with over 3 million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and 3 thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory.
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler's number-two man,
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16 American B-25 bombers, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet 650 miles east of Japan and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, attack the Japanese mainland.
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the Battle of Midway was one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II.
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The last German troops in the Soviet city of Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army, ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II.
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The Battle of Normandy, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
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Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him.
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Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium.
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Holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
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Both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day.
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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.
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A second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender
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The USS Missouri hosts the formal surrender of the Japanese government to the Allies. Victory over Japan was celebrated back in the States.
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Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II.
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In Tokyo, Japan, 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
