WW2

By Gman5252
  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    A peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
  • The Great Depression begins

    The Great Depression begins

    The stock market crash started the great depression. The great depression was worldwide.
  • Hitler became leader

    Hitler became leader

    Hitler was named chancellor of germany.
  • Mussolini invaded Ethiopia

    Mussolini invaded Ethiopia

    The Italians, fighting with modern weapons against poorly equipped
    Ethiopians, conquered this African nation that same year.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager.
  • Germans invaded poland

    Germans invaded poland

    German tanks rolled into Poland and began WW2.
  • Germans enter paris

    Germans enter paris

    German flag flew over paris and started a war there.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing.
  • President Roosevelt Died

    President Roosevelt Died

    President Roosevelt, having suffered years of
    medical complications, had died suddenly.
  • atomic weapon on Hiroshima

    atomic weapon on Hiroshima

    American airplane named the Enola Gay dropped
    the atomic weapon on Hiroshima.
  • End of WW2

    End of WW2

    Japan announced that it would end the fighting, and signed the articles of surrender and then World War II was over.
  • Nuremberg War Crimes trials begin

    Nuremberg War Crimes trials begin

    a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II.