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  • Murder of the Romanov family

  • End of World War I

  • Formation of the Communist Party of Germany

  • Formation of the German Workers' Party

  • Death of Theodore Roosevelt

  • Start of Irish independence war

  • Election of Friedrich Ebert as the first President of Germany

  • Fundation of the National Fascist Party in Italy by Benito Mussolini

  • The Bauhaus (architectural movement) is created

  • The teatry of Versailles is signed

  • Fundation of the League of Nations

  • Adolf Hitler gives his first speech for the German Workers' Party

  • Begining of the Prohibition Era in US

  • Hitler renames the German Workers' Party as the Nazi Party

  • Gandhi starts the Non-Cooperation Movement of India

  • Bloody Sunday of Dublin

  • End of Irish War of Independence

  • Annual Disaster of Rif War

  • Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party

  • End of Russian Civil War (Bolsheviks win)

  • Italy becomes a fascist country

    (the National Fascist Party gets to power with Mussolini as the leader)

  • The USSR is created

  • A dictatorship is set in Spain by Primo de Rivera

  • Munich Putsch

  • Germany joins the League of Nations

  • End of the Rif War

  • The Young plan is finished

  • Black Thursday of Wall Street Crash

  • Black Tuesday of Wall Street Crash

    Start of the Great Depression

  • The Second Spanish Republic is stablished

  • Manchuria is invaded by Japan

  • Hitler obtains the German citizenship

    This way he can be presented to elections

  • Hitler is proclaimed Chancellor of Germany

  • Hitler becomes officially the dictator of Germany

    Because of the Enabling Act which gave him the permission to change laws without the president

  • Japan leaves the League of Nations

  • The GESTAPO is stablished in Germany

  • US President Roosevelt starts the New Deal

  • The Soviet Union joins the League of Nations

  • Germany re-arm violating this way the Treaty of Versailles

  • Ethiopia (Abyssinia) is invaded by Italy

  • Rhineland is occupied by Germany

  • Start of the Spanish Civil War

  • Guernica is bombed by the Condor Legion

  • China is invaded by Japan

  • Austria is annexed to Germany

  • Sudetenland is occupied by Germany

  • Czechoslovakia is invaded by Germany

  • End of the Spanish Civil War

    Nationalists win and Spain becomes a fascist country under the power of Francisco Franco

  • Albania is invaded by Italy

  • Spain leaves the League of Nations

  • The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is signed by Germany and the Soviet Union

    It was a non-aggression pact

  • German invasión of Poland and start of World War II

  • France and Great Britain declare war to Germany

  • The USSR invades the Eastern Poland

  • Denmark and Norway are invaded by Germany

    Hitler called it Operation Weserübung

  • The Allies start the Norwegian Campaign to defend Norway

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    Battle of Narvik (first Allies victory on land)

  • The Battle of France begins

  • The Battle of The Netherlands begins

  • Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of UK

  • The Battle of Belgium begins

  • The German invasion of Luxembourg begins

  • The British Invasion of Iceland begins

  • Germany conquers Brussels and the Battle of the Netherlands ends

    The German invasion of Netherlands start, too

  • The German extermination camp Auschwitz opens

  • Period: to

    The Dunkirk evacuation occurs

  • Lithuania is occupied by the Soviet Union

  • Estonia and Latvia are occupied by the Soviet Union

  • End of Battle of France and division of France

    An armistice was sign by Germany and France and the country was divided into an occupied-zone and the Vichy France

  • The Battle of Britain begins (through air)

  • Period: to

    British Somaliland is conquered by Italy

  • "The Hardest Day" of the Battle o Britain

    Both sides loose many aircrafts

  • First Bombing of Berlin by Great Britain

  • The London Blitz begins

    It was a constant rain of bombs from Germany
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    The Battle of Dakar takes place

  • Italian invasion of Greece starts

  • The Battle of Britain ends (with UK's victory)

  • Great Britain starts to bomb Hamburg

    In response of the Coventry Blitz

  • The Second Great Fire of London takes place

  • British capture of Tobruk

  • Period: to

    The Battle of Keren takes place

  • The Battle of Greece begins

    It was between Greece, Italy, Germany and Hungary

  • The London Blitz ends

  • Operation Barbarossa starts (Germany invades the USSR)

  • Germany starts the Siege of Leningrad

  • The Battle of Moscow begins

  • Japanese attack to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

  • Japan declares war to US and they join war

  • First American forces arrive in Europe

  • The Bataan Death March takes place

  • Last American Forces surrender to Japan in the Philippines

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    The Battle of Midway takes place

    United States wins over Japan

  • The Guadalcanal Campaign starts

  • The Battle of Stalingrad begins

  • The Operation Torch is carried out

    Allies land simultaneously in French North Africa

  • Vichy France sign armistice with Allies in North Africa

  • The Battle of Stalingrad ends (USSR wins)

  • The Guadalcanal Campaign ends with the defeat of Japan

  • The Allied invasion of Sicily starts

  • Benito Mussolini is arrested and overthrown

  • The Siege of Leningrad ends

  • Rome is invaded by the Allies

    It was the first Axis' capital to fall

  • The D-Day: Allies launch in Normandy and start an invasion

  • The July 20 plot occurs

    An attempted murder to Hitler

  • The Liberation of Paris takes place

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    The Battle of Leyte Gulf takes place (Allies win over Japan)

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    The Battle of the Bulge takes place

    Last big German offensive in Western Europe

  • The USSR liberate the Auschwitz camp

  • The Battle of Iwo Jima starts

  • Iwo Jima is taken by United States

  • The Battle of Berlin begins

  • Death of Adolf Hitler

  • The USSR announces the Fall of Berlin

  • Denmark is liberated

  • Germany surrenders

  • The Battle of Okinawa ends with the island falling under US power

  • Germany is divided between the Allied forces

  • An atomic bomb falls over Hiroshima (dropped by US)

  • An atomic bomb falls over Nagasaki (dropped by US)

  • World War II ends due to Japanese surrender