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Stalin rose up and sized complete control through linen's previous creation and development of the communist party. Trotsky is Stalin's rival and he takes control by using the secret police to eliminate him and all his rivals.
Mussolini used his black shirts, and began using his military power to force individuality to be suppressed and gain power also using the secret police to kill opposition.
Hitler uses his speeches and the secret police to gain power after failed revolution. -
During this time nearly every major country was going through a huge economic depression. This resulted in unstable governments and people leading to revolutions that installed fascists governments. These governments were a major lead to starting World War Two. -
France and Britain allowed for Germany to take back Rhineland due to not wanting war. Even though they were in charge of keeping Germany in check leading to Germany taking over and putting 20k troops in Rhineland. This resulted in further tensions leading to ww2, and also allowed for the invasion of Paris/Germany's attack to happen extremely fast. -
The U.S entered a policy stating they wouldn't do anything involving other countries with military/wars. This led to ww2 due to no major support for the league of nations allowing Germany to take land, and later even led to the U.S joining the war. Due to the Japanese launching an unprovoked attack, which eventually led to Germany's defeat in ww2. -
This was an alliance between all three major fascist states (Italy, Japan, and Germany). This allowed for all three countries to gain confidence to start war leading to ww2. -
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This is was the official declaration of war from Britain and France against Germany. Ending up in the start of ww2, this was important because it was the official start stating there was no going back anymore. -
Hitler mobilized around 5.3 Million troops to invade and conquer France. It took them around 1 week to conquer France. This led to Germany gaining land/troop advantage causing a huge tilt toward the axis's power. This also allowed for them to attack Britain later on causing the Battle of Britain. -
After France was conquered Germany used it as a base to attack Britain over the sea with planes. Although they experienced a crushing defeat from Britain leading to a major turning point in the war. Allowing the allies to take back some of France preparing for D-Day in the future and ran Germany's resources/troops dry. -
This was a sudden sneak attack by Japan to the U.S. resulting in them losing a harbor but not many people or ships. Although the U.S. was set back it caused them to join the war on the Allies side; setting up the axis's for defeat this idea also made the U.S realize japan's determination, leading them to drop the A-bomb. -
Germany's army pushed up into the SU in Siberia hoping to conquer them quickly leaving only Britain and U.S. to fight with support. But the SU used Scorched earth and just keep fleeing until it hit winter; causing the Germans to be stranded with no supplies in cold weather. This was a major turning point being a key battle leading to the allies'victory due to the German's losing so much time/resources for nothing. -
In 1943 Germany and the SU were fighting at Kursk with tanks where the SU won by a landslide. This led to further power/lead for the allies letting them be able to start D-Day and allowed them to secure victory over the axis powers. -
The allies launched an invasion to recover France and demolish Germany; which was the D-Day invasion with them sending millions of troops to recover France. Allowing them to take back and set up to surround, and slowly take over Germany being one of the last major battles of ww2. -
The German's launched an offensive attack against the allies on the western front. Resulting in extreme casualties and deaths for Germany and a big loss. This was Germany's last offensive and a major lose, losing so many troops allowed them to ran over extremely easy by the allies. Marking the end of the Battle with Germany causing them to surrender only 4 months later resulting in the allies discussing what to do with Germany/Europe now. -
The U.S dropped a A-Bomb on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki days after. This was a final warning to Japan to surrender whilst they were still able to without earning more casualties; leading to the complete non-use of A-Bombs in the future due to how much damage it can cause. Also basically ending the war out right due to completely disabling Japan, and allowing them to allocate resources to finish off a weakened isolated Germany. -
Officially declaring the war is over and announcing the need for rebuilding. This led to meetings and plans for what should happen for the future of Europe and led to the current day.