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leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship
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Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1924 until his death in 1953
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It begins in the year 1933. He is appointed Chancellor by Paul Von Hindenburg, president of Germany.
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An armed conflict that caused Ethipoia to fall under Italy's rule. lasts from 1935-36.
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1936–39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, which bans travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships.
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Japanese warplanes dive-bomb the American gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River in China. Japan apologizes and pays reparations for the lives lost.
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Austria was Adolf Hitler's birth country, and she was the first nation to be annexed by Hitler's Nazi Germany.
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A Coalation formed between Italy and Germany. It is formalized as "The Pact of Steel."
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Germany plans to take Poland. they atack from North, West and South. The pacts poland formed with Europe and UK falls through because they are very limited in the support they can offer and Poland falls to Germany.
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Though out numbered the germans plan was so effective the managed to win this battle with flying colors
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Battle of Britian was an air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom in the summer of 1939
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Shortly before World War II broke out in 1939, two enemies, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a Non Aggression pact.
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Captured documents reveal what Hitler has been planing for the invasion of Scandinavia and a postponement of the invasion of France and the Low Countries until the Spring, when the weather is more compatible for an invasion.
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Finland signs a peace treaty with the Soviet Union after 105 days of fighting. They are forced to give a large section of land to ensure peace.
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War officially declared by Ialy against France and the UK
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Germany's Jews areForced to wear yellow stars for identification.
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Before being appointed to Prime Minister in 1941, Tojo had an extensive, successful military history. In 1933, after periods in Switzerland and Germany, Tojo was appointed to major general, two years after that in 1935, he was appointed head of the Kwatung armu's military police.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Twenty-six Allied countries signed the Declaration by United Nations during the Arcadia Conference.
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The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific in World War II.
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history and basically resulted in the destruction of the Imperial Japanese Navy. For the remainder of the war, the Japanese could only rely on land forces and Kamikaze attacks. Their supply of oil and other important war materials from Southeast Asia had been cut off
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Allied troops prepare to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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The Battle of the Bulge occurs from the 16th of December 1944 till the 25th of January 1945. It was a major German attack through the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe
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after leading the American people through the great deppresion the president dies of a cereberal hemmorrage
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AMerican B-29 bomber, the Engola Gay, dropped first atomic bomb ever, in Hiroshima Japan.
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The single nuclear warhead was not enough to convince the japanese war council to cease fire so the americans dropped a second nuclear warhead on Nagaski, Japan. This resulted in Japan's complete surrender.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
