-
Stalin comes to power in Russia
When Lenin died in 1924, everybody expected Trotsky to take over the leadership. Instead, Stalin schemed his way into power, using his position as General Secretary, and a series of ruthless political moves . His actions had made a big affect on the war. -
Mussolini takes power to italy
He was a major role for italy before and during the war. -
The U.S stock market crashes
It puts alot of people out of jobs and dept. It made people more avabile to fight in the war. -
The U.S passes the neutrality act
The U.S says that there going to remain nutral during the war becouse they want nothing to do with it. -
Japan invades manchuria
In 1931, the Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire 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 IIs -
FDR is elected president
He was the one who helped the U.S threw depression but he was the leader of country during the war as well. -
Hitler is named chancellor of germany
Hitler is one of the main reasons why the war had started. His actions that he does after that is horrible -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Politically, the war is best remembered for exposing the inherent weakness of the League of Nations -
Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland
The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties, marking the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region. -
Cival war erupts in spain
By the summer, important tendencies of the war become clear, both in terms of atrocities on both sides and in the contrast between the Soviet Union's intermittent help to the Republican government and the committed support of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany for the Nationalists. It was part of the major battles that were going on in the world at the time -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Nazi- Soviet Pact was an agreement between Germany and Russia that promised neither would attack the other for 10 years. There was also an economic agreement attached it to that said Germany would exchange manufactured goods for Russia's raw materials. The pact only lasted 2 years before Germany invaded Russia. It was said that from the beginning Hitler considered the agreement a very tactical, temporary movement. These actions had caused alot of term oil in the war.
Rate This Answer -
Anschluss
Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich on 12 March 1938. There had been several years of pressure by supporters in both Austria and Germany for the "Heim ins Reich" movement.Earlier, Nazi Germany had provided support for the Austrian National Socialist Party (in its bid to seize power from Austria's Austrofascist leadership. this event had started alot more battles during the war. -
Germany occupies the sudetenland
German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's pretext for this effort was the alleged privations suffered by the ethnic German population living in those regions. New and extensive Czechoslovak border fortifications were also located in the same area. -
The Munich Conference
On 29 September 1938 the Munich Conference was called. Here Hitler met with representatives of the heads of state from France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, literally, "Night of Crystal," is often referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass." The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops. -
Germany invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
germany invades poland
It was part of germanys plan to take over the world -
The "phoney war"
The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies the German Reich. The phase was in the months following Britain and in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940. -
Churchhill is elected prime minister of england
was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, -
the battle of brittan
the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command. The name derives from a famous speech delivered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the House of Commons: "…the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. -
Mircale at dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation, commonly known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and the early hours of 4 June 1940 -
France surrenders
it was a part of hitlers plan to take over the world. -
Japan seizes french Indo-china
That had made even more then there already was. -
The lend-lease act
the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945 -
the atlantic charter
The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies -
japan atacks pearl harbor
an attack on an important head queaters for america
