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Mussolini and the Fascists come to power in Italy
Fascism came to power in Italy because of the number of different factors.It can be found in failure of the whole political class and resist authoritanism and started a big mistake by the Italian government.One of the most relevant factors of fascism was the threat of socialism. There was a weak political system leading Italy into a fascist reign. Many people believed that mussolini and squadiisti were only people willing to save Italy from socalism. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria was when the Kwantung Army of the empire of Japan invaded Manchuria regarding to the Mukden incident. Japanese marched into the Mukden. Japan was already in the depression so the lead of nations could punish the nation by economic sanction. The japanese established a state that was called the Manchukuo. This occupation lasted until the end of WWII. -
Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Italy
In the early 1930's, Germany was by the Great Depression. Germany had a weak goverenment known as a Weimar Republic. Because of these conflicts, Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany. He was a powerful speaker; made a change for the journeys. -
Neutrality Acts passed in the U.S
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress on August 31,1935, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Munich Conference
Adolf Hitler and more leaders signed the Munich Paxt. It sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia. They handed it over to Germany in the name of peace. Neville Chamberlain would declare a meeting that had accompish "peace in our time." Although the aggreement was to give it to Sudentenland, that part of Czechoslavekia was were three million ethnic germans lived. -
Kristallnacht
The Kristallnacht is known as "The Night of the Broken Glass". There was a massive attack on the Jews throughout the German Reich on November 9, 1938. The SS and Hitler Youth beat and murdered the Jews. They brutalized Jewish women and children. -
Germany and the USSR sign the Non-Aggression Pact
August 23, 1939–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. -
Germany invades Poland-Beginning of WWII
The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea, Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War ll, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. It was a contest between the Western Allies and the Axis powers for the control of the Atlantic sea routes around the United States. -
France falls to Germany
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. Beginning on 10 May 1940, the battle defeated primarily French forces. -
Rescue at Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was an important battle that took place in Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. The war started May 26, 1940 and ended June 3, 1940. -
Formation of the Axis Power
Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, which became the Axis alliance. Before the Tripartite Pact, two of the three Axis powers had a promblem that would become theater in WWII. After the countries joined Axis alliance, it was a defeat of France. Hitler decided that Germany would attack the Soviet Union. Germany invasion of poland unleashed the European War. Italy entered WWII on the axis side. The defeat of France became apparent. -
Presidental election of 1940
American presidential election held on Nov. 5, 1940, in which Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Wendell L. Willkie. By becoming the first president to win a third term, Roosevelt broke the two-term precedent established by the country’s first president, George Washington. -
Congress passes the Lend Lease Act
In the late 1940 and passed in March 1,1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It 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. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Japan attacks the US Navy base at Peral Harbor, more than 2,000 military and civilians were killed, The US declared war on the empire of Japan. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Allied Invasion/Victory in the Phillippines
The Philippines Campaign or the Battle of the Philippines, fought 8 December 1941 – 8 May 1942, was the invasion of the Philippines by Japan and the defense of the islands by Filipino and United States forces. -
Relocation of Japanese Americans to camps
Two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. This resulted in the relocation of approximately 120,000 people, many of whom were American citizens, to one of 10 internment camps located across the country. -
Bataan Death March
After the April 9,1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War ll, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway Island was a naval and air battle fought on June 4,1942 in World War ll in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor. -
Rosie the Riveter campaign encourages women to get a job
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. Rosie the Riveter is commonly used as a symbol of feminism and women's economic power. -
D-Day Invasion
The code name for the first day of a military attack, especially the American and British invasion of German-occupied France during World War ll on June 6,1944. -
Presidental Election of 1944
On November 7,1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee, sought his fourth term in office, defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey in the general election. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, on December 16,1944 was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War ll in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
The conference convened in the Livadia Palace on February 4,1945 near Yalta in Crimea.United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
V-E Day
V-E Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War 2. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
Bombing of Hiroshima Nagaskai
The United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 6,1945. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. -
Surrender of Japan
The surrender of the Empire of Japan was announced by Imperial Japan on August 15 and formally signed on September 2,1945,bringing the hostilities of World War ll to a close. -
Formation of the United Nations
The United Nations was formed on October 24,1945 which is a international organization that increased political and economic cooperation among member countries. The organization works on economic and social development programs, improving human rights and reducing global conflicts.
