World war ii

World War II

  • Treaty of Versailles signed

    Treaty of Versailles signed
    Was a treaty of peace to end the World War One between Germany and the Allied Powers.
  • World War One Armistice signed

    World War One Armistice signed
    Was a document or treaty signed this day for the allies and German Empire in a train of Compiègne forest to end the war.
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    WORLD WAR II

  • Was born the facism and the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento

     Was born the facism and the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento
    The fascism is an ideology and a political moviment, this was born in Italy and it's best exponent is Benito Mussolini.
    Fasci Italiani di Combattimento was a war groups.
  • League of Nations meets for the first time

    League of Nations meets for the first time
    The League was an international body founded as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I
  • Adolf Hitler assumes control of National Socialist. Nazi Party.

    Adolf Hitler assumes control of National Socialist. Nazi Party.
    National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) was a political party in the hands of Adolf Hitler. Nacional Socialism was the ideology of the political party.
    Hitler took control in 1933 with this party.
  • Benito Mussolini calls for fascist "Blackshirts" to March on Rome

    Benito Mussolini calls for fascist "Blackshirts" to March on Rome
    90 years ago, 40,000 Italian facists encouraged by Mussolini traveled on foot to Rome, armed with sticks, to establish the fascist model that would inspire later Hitler and Franco
    http://www.abc.es/20121030/archivo/abci-mussolini-marcha-roma-201210291646.html
  • Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch fails

    Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch fails
    Failed putsch of state the 8 and 9 of november 1923 from the Nazis party (NSDAP) "The national revolution has begun!" said Hitler. He was processed and envoy to prison for this.
  • Mussolini begins to assume dictatorial powers

    Mussolini begins to assume dictatorial powers
    In 1925, the 3 of january Mussolini gave a speech in the parliament he proclaims that want to assume upon himself ''any historical responsability, political and moral'' from the murder of Matteotti. This speech is considered the beginning of the fascism dictatorship.
  • Economic crisis of 1929

    Economic crisis of 1929
    Occurs an economic crisis in stock market of new york making that economy decreased not only in this country but in europe and others places.
  • Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
    Hitler was appointed Chanceller of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. The beginning of the end.
  • German Reichstag burns down; communists blamed, arrested.

    German Reichstag burns down; communists blamed, arrested.
    The fire started at 21:14 on the night of February 27, 1933, when a Berlin fire station received an alarm that the Reichstag building, seat of the German parliament official, was on fire. Van der Lubbe was a Dutch former communist and unemployed, he was accused for the fire and he was envoy to prision and just like the other communist leaders.
  • Enabling Act passed by Reichstag; Hitler assumes dictatorial power

    Enabling Act passed by Reichstag; Hitler assumes dictatorial power
    NAZIS FAIL TO WIN MAJORITY IN REICHSTAG (GERMAN PARLIAMENT) ELECTIONS
    Fifth paragraph
    http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007669
  • Nazi party declared official party of Germany; all other parties banned

    Nazi party declared official party of Germany; all other parties banned
    The Nazi Party was named the only political party in Germany, the other political parties were'' illegals''.
  • Germany quits League of Nations

    Hitler explained that Germany left the League because there was no equality in terms of armaments, economy, etc...
    http://www.claseshistoria.com/fascismos/%2Bhitlersdn.htm
  • Night of the Long Knives

    The Nazi regime carried out a series of political assassinations. May be included within the scope of acts that made the NSDAP to took possesion all structures of the German state. Many of those who were killed that time belonged to the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi paramilitary organization.
  • German President Paul von Hindenburg dies

  • Hitler combines the offices of president and chancellor; assumes the title of Fuhrer

    Hitler combines the offices of president and chancellor; assumes the title of Fuhrer
    After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler was appointed President of Germany and he combines the offices of president and chancellor.
  • Violation of Versailles treaty

    The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on the military strength of Germany. The troops had few mens and armament.
    Military conscription introduced in Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU-IRR-Al0Y
  • Nuremberg race laws promulgated

  • Franco becomes dictator of Spain

    For the putsch on 17 and 18 of july Fraancisco Franco declared his dictatorship.
  • Germany invades Austria; Anschluss (union) proclaimed

    Anschluss in German this world meas union.
    Austria was considered a'' colony'' Nazi, this political party came to rule through terrorism.
  • Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

    Attacks in Germany and Austria from SA troops.
  • German troops occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia

  • Red Army attacks Finland

    Winter War.
    Finland endured out until March 1940, when a peace treaty giving about 10% of Finnish territory and 20% of its industrial capacity to the Soviet Union was signed.
  • Nazi-Soviet nonagression pact signed

    The treaty contained clauses of mutual non-aggression, and a commitment to peaceful settlement of disputes between the two countries through mutual consultation. To this intent to strengthen economic and trade ties. were given preferential treatment was added, as well as mutual help.
  • The world war began

    The world war began
    Germany invades Poland, starting second world war.
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Red Army invades Poland in accordance with Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Soldiers and armed workers, led by noncommissioned officers, who acted as "armed wing of Bolshevism".
  • Warsaw falls to the Nazis

    Warsaw from the Nazi invasion and threat and decides to surrender to the empire
  • Soviet Union kicked out of League of Nations

    As consequence the invasion to Finland, the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations on 14 December.
  • Finland signs peace treaty with Soviet Union

    Peace treaty ceding about 10% of Finnish territory and 20% of its industrial capacity to the Soviet Union.
  • Invasions

    7/23/1940 Red Army takes Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
    8/3/1940 talian Army invades British Somaliland
    9/13/1940 Italian Army attacks Egypt
    9/16/1940 Military conscription introduced in United States
  • Invasions

    4/9/1940 German Army invades Denmark and Norway
    5/10/1940 German Army invades France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill appointed British Prime Minister.
  • ATTACKS

    0/7/1940 German troops occupy Romania
    10/28/1940 Italian Army attacks Greece
    11/5/1940 Roosevelt re-elected
    11/10-11/1940 RAF raid cripples Italian fleet at Taranto
    11/20/1940 Romania joins Axis
    12/9-10/1940 British counter-attack begins against Italian Army in North Africa
  • Holland capitulates to Nazis

    Batalle in Holland
    Was starting on 5 of May and ends 15 because the Dutch government falls to the nazis.
    5/28/1940 Belgium capitulates to Nazis.
  • Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • Nazis take Paris

    6/14/1940 Nazis take Paris
    6/22/1940 France capitulates to Nazis
  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Tripartite alliance formed

    Germany, Italy and Japan
  • Japanese attack naval base at Pearl Harbor

  • Hitler assumes post of Commander in Chief of German Army

  • Mass gassing of Jews begins at Auschwitz

    Allies forge Declaration of the United Nations
    1/20/1942 Nazis coordinate "Final Solution" efforts at Wannsee Conference
  • U.S. Air Force opens daylight bombing campaign with attack on Wilhelmshaven, Germany

  • German Sixth Army at Stalingrad surrenders to the Russians; war in Europe reaches its turning point

  • S.S. begins "liquidation" of the Warsaw ghetto

  • Mussolini and the Fascists overthrown

  • New Italian government announces Italy's surrender

  • Battle of the Bulge ends in German defeat

  • German Army launches "Battle of the Bulge" offensive on the Western Front

  • Waffen SS executes 81 American prisoners of war in "Malmedy Massacre"

  • German forces in the Ruhr capitulate

  • Dachau concentration camp liberated

  • Adolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun commit suicide in Chancellery bunker

  • SS Reichfuhrer Heinrich Himmler commits suicide

  • First atomic bomb dropped Hiroshima

  • Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japanese delegation signs instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay

  • German Army launches "Battle of the Bulge" offensive on the Western Front

  • Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal begins