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Paris Peace Conference
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The Allied powers met up at the Palace of Versailles to create the Teaty of Versailles ending WWl. The Treaty created the League of Nations that was supposed to keep peace after WWl. -
Nine Power Treaty
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On Febuary 6,1922 China, the Uited States, Great Britian, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Prochugal, and the Netherlands agreed to respect the soverignty independance and territorial integrity of China. -
Mussolini takes over Italy's Government
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Italy was having a hard time and Mussolini took control of the Italian government and changed it into a fascitst government. -
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Beer Hall Putsch
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Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler tried to overtrhow the German Government from inside a Beer cellar in Munich. The Coup was dispelled by the police leaving his comrades dead and wounded and HItler in Jail. -
Beer Hall Putsch
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Adolf Hitler and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
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U.S. Stock Market Crash
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. -
Japan Invades Manchuria
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It began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany
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Hitler is appointed Germany's Chancellor
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The year 1932 had seen Hitler's meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people's frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still-festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty. -
Japan Withdraws from the League of Nations
[Click for more info](www.johndclare.net/league_of_nations6_news.htm)Japan leaves the League of Nations. JAPAN STUNS WORLD, WITHDRAWS FROM LEAGUE. GENEVA, The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly on the 28 of Febuary, 1933, after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. -
Rohm Purge
Click for more infoThe Nazi Party leadership, on the order of Nazi Party Leader Adolf Hitler, purged the leadership of the Nazi paramilitary formation, the Sturmabteilungen . The Nazi leaders took advantage of the purge to kill other political enemies. The murders cemented an agreement between the Nazi regime and the German Army that enabled Hitler to proclaim himself Führer of National Socialist Germany and to claim absolute power. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Click for more infoIn 1935, the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German. Mussolini followed this policy when he invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) the African country situated on the horn of Africa. Mussolini claimed that his policies of expansion were not different from that of other colonial powers in Africa. -
Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
Click for more infoNazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
Hitler openly defies the Treaty of Versailles
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
Franco becomes Dictator of Spain
Click for more info During the Spanish Civil War, General Francisco Franco is named head of the rebel Nationalist government in Spain. It would take more than two years for Franco to defeat the Republicans in the civil war and become ruler of all of Spain. He subsequently served as dictator until his death in 1975. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
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Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries. -
Germany Annexes Austria
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. Hitler accompanied German troops into Austria, where enthusiastic crowds met them. Hitler appointed a new Nazi government. -
Munich Conference
Click for more info British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. Hitler began openly to support the demands of German-speakers living in the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia for closer ties with Germany. -
Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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Shortly before World War II broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Nazi invasion of Poland
Click for more info1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II. To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or or "living space," for the German people. -
Battle of Britain
Click for more infoThe defeated French signed an armistice and quit World War II. Britain now stood alone against the power of Germany’s military forces, which had conquered most of Western Europe in less than two months. But Britain’s success in continuing the war would very much depend on the RAF Fighter Command’s ability to thwart the Luftwaffe’s efforts to gain air superiority. This then would be the first all-air battle in history. -
Lend Lease Act
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was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. The act authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States. -
Operation Barbarossa
Click for more info Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration with just one dissenting vote. -
Wannsee Conference
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Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the Final Solution of the Jewish question. The minutes of this conference were kept with meticulous care, which later provided key evidence during the Nuremberg war crimes trials. -
Doolittle Raid
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16 American B-25 bombers, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet 650 miles east of Japan and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, attack the Japanese mainland. -
Battle of Midway
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
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Was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. -
D-Day and Operation Overlord
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thousands of paratroopers and glider troops were already on the ground behind enemy lines, securing bridges and exit roads. The British and Canadians overcame light opposition to capture beaches codenamed Gold, Juno and Sword, as did the Americans at Utah Beach. However, by day’s end, approximately 156,000 Allied troops had successfully stormed Normandy’s beaches. -
Operation Valkyrie
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A plot by senior-level German military officials to murder Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and then take control of his government failed when a bomb planted in a briefcase went off but did not kill the Nazi leader. The assassination attempt took place at the Wolfsschanze, a command post near Rastenburg, East Prussia. Hitler’s would-be assassins were executed after being discovered. -
Battle of the Bulge
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the apperence, a large bulge. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler's dreams of a "1,000-year" Reich. -
V-E Day
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both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. -
Little Boy Dropped
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an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. -
Fat Man Dropped
Click for more info a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference's demand for unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man," on August 11 in the event of such recalcitrance, but bad weather changd the date to August 9. -
V-J Day
Click for more infoOn August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostili -
Nuremberg Trials
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Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. -
Japanese War Crime Trials
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In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the case against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during World War II.
