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Paris Peace Confrense
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the Allies went to the Paris Peace Confrence following WWI. They created the Treaty of Versallies and the League of Nations to hopefully keep peace in the world. -
Nine Power Treaty
a treaty signed at Washington, D.C. The signers were China and the United States, 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 took years to achieve what could be defined as a dictatorship. He achieved some semblance of power after the March on Rome in 1922 when he was appointed Prime Minister of Italy. -
Beer Hall Putsch
Beer Hall Putsch
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. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war. Sometimes called the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, the pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded about 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
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Japanes Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. The Japanese Empire tried 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 II -
Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, bringing an end to German democracy. Guided by racist and authoritarian ideas, the Nazis abolished basic freedoms and sought to create a "Volk" community. -
Hitler becomes Germany's Chancellor
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Adolf Hitler was not elected to power in Germany by an overwhelming upsurge of popular demand. The Nazi Party certainly achieved substantial support, winning 37 per cent of the total vote in the 1932 election. -
Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
The Japanese delegation withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. -
Rohm Purge
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Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles
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Hitler departed his mountain retreat and returned to Berlin. He immediately convened a Cabinet meeting and also assembled members of the Army's General Staff. He then announced a major decision he had just come to – Germany would openly defy the military limitations set by the Treaty of Versailles and re-arm. -
Nuremberg Laws
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
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Rome-Berlin Axis
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Germany Annexes Austria
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. -
Germany Annexes Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. -
Munich Conference
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Munich Conference
a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia -
Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
the Czech frontier guards left their posts and German troops occupied the Sudetenland. Very shortly afterwards, Polish and Hungarian troops took areas of Czechoslovakia which contained a majority of Poles and Magyars. -
Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
the Czech frontier guards left their posts and German troops occupied the Sudetenland. Very shortly afterwards, Polish and Hungarian troops took areas of Czechoslovakia which contained a majority of Poles and Magyars. -
Franco becomes Dictator of Spain
Franco lead a revolt against the Popular Front. It started in the Canary Islands, where Franco was governor and spread to Morocco where he had made many contacts in the 17 years he was based there. -
Nazi invasion of Poland
Warsaw surrendered to the Germans. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany -
Battle of Britain
Churchill gave a rousing speech to the British people, announcing: "... the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin." Four days later, France surrendered to Germany and Hitler turned his attention to Britain. -
Lend Lease Act
the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union -
Operation Barbarossa
Nazi Germany and its Axis allies began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union named Operation Barbarossa -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Wannsee Conference
Heydrich summoned fourteen men representing the governmental and military branches most involved in implementing the practical aspects of the Final Solution. -
Doolittle Raid
was the most daring operation yet undertaken by the United States in the young Pacific War. -
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. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The battle at Stalingrad bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat. -
D-Day and Operation Overlord
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future President Dwight D. Eisenhower, then supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in World War II gives the go-ahead for a massive invasion of Europe called Operation Overlord. Back in America, President Franklin Roosevelt waited for word of the invasion's success. -
Operation Valkyrie
used if Allied bombing of German cities or an uprising of forced laborers from occupied countries working in German factories resulted in a breakdown in law and order -
Battle of the Bulge
German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region on the Western Front. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol -
V-E Day
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the Western Allies crossed the Rhine after having smashed through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran West Germany. -
Little Boy Dropped
the bomb was used to sharten the war between the US and Japan -
Fat Man Dropped
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V-J Day
this day hosts the formal surrender of the Japanese government to the Allies. Victory over Japan was celebrated back in the States. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
All Japanese Class A war criminals were tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East\ in Tokyo. -
Nuremberg Trials
handed down its verdicts in the trials of 22 Nazi leaders - eleven were given the death penalty, three were acquitted, three were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years.
