WW II Time line

  • Stalin becomes dictator of USSR

    Stalin becomes dictator of USSR
    Stalin was serving in the Russian Civil war before overseeing the soviet union establishment in 1922.
  • Mussolini’s March on Rome -outcome

    Mussolini’s March on Rome -outcome
    Benito Mussolini´s Blackshirts infamously March on Rome,Seizing total control over the Italian government.The march on Rome marked the beggining of Fascist rule over italy,Ending all social-liberal parliamentary.
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    1st “five year plan” in USSR– purpose

    Implemented by joseph stalin concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing.
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    The Great Purge and gulags

    The gulag system ended difinitively six years later on 25 january 1960,when the remains of the administration were dissolved by Khrushchev,More than 10 percent of XVI Party confrence party were purged.
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    Japan invades Manchuria

    The japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 september 1931,When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden incident.
  • Holodomer

    Holodomer
    Holodomer was also known as the Terror Famine and sometimes reffered to as the great famine,Was a famine that killed millions in ukraine during 1932 and 1933
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    Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

    Adolf hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the nazi Party.He ruled absoulutely until his death by suicide in April 1945.
  • Hitler writes Mein Kampf

    Hitler writes Mein Kampf
    Is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by nazi party leader Adolf Hitler,Which the work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemetic and outlines.
  • Night of the Long Knives” in Germany - purpose

    Night of the Long Knives” in Germany - purpose
    Ordered a series of political extrajeudical executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the germany military about the role of Ernrst Rohm and the sturmabteilung.
  • Nuremburg Laws enacted

    Nuremburg Laws enacted
    These laws became known as the Nuremburg Laws or Nuremburg race laws.This is because they were first announced at a nazi party rally held in german city of Nuremburg.
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    Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    The second Italo-Ethiopion war,also reffered to as the second italo-abyssinian War,was a war of aggression,Which was fought between italy and the Ethiopion war.
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    Spanish civil war

    The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with anarchists.
  • The Rape of Nanking

    The Rape of Nanking
    It was an episode of mass murder and rape which the japanese troops would rape them in the capital of china during the second Sino-Japanese war.
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    Kristallnacht

    It was the night of the Broken glass,also called the november program,was a pogrom against jews carried out by the nazi Germany on november 9-10 november 1938 was a horrific day.The german police looked without entervening.
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    Nazi Germany invades Poland.

    Polish territory divided among Germany, Lithuania, the Soviet Union, and the Slovak client-state Danzig annexed by Germany Kresy annexed by the Soviet Union, Vilnius granted to Lithuania.
  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
    They did a preventive action to prevent the united states Pacific fleet from interfering with it´s planned military actions in south east asia against over seas territories.