WW2

  • treaty Of Versailles

    Signed on This date, the Treaty Of Versailles ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers
  • Mussolini comes to power in Italy

    The 40th Prime minister of Italy
  • Stalin's Five year plan

    Stalin wanted to modernize industry and succeeded for the most part
  • Stalin Becomes the Soviet Premier

    After the death Of Lenin, Stalin became the Soviet Premier and Russified everything
  • Hitler Became Chancellor Of Germany

    President Paul Von Hindenburg appointed Hitler, already the leader of the National Soacialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) the chancellor of Germany
  • Dachau Opens

    The longest standing Concentration camp, Lasted almost the entire twelve years of the Nazi regime. Closed in April of 1945
  • Nuremberg Laws Pass

    These Laws Were passed during the reign of the Third Reich and took Jewish presence out of the Aryan Race
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    Spanish Civil War

    Military revolt against the Gov't of Spain
  • Austrian Anschluss

    Germany wanted all German speaking countries to unite
  • Germany Annexes the Sudetenland

    Great Britian,France, Italy and Nazi Germany signed an agreement allowing Germany to take this piece of Czechoslovakia
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    Kristallnacht

    "night of broken Glass"
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed

    The agreement came as a shock to Europe and eventually led to an agreement to invade and divide the countries between them, Poland being the first
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Pretty much the start of WW2
  • Germany invades Norway and Denmark

    part of operation Weseruebung
  • Auschwitz opened

    Largest of the Death camps located in Poland. There were many Branches of the camp because it was so large
  • Germany Invades soviet union

    Largest German Military op of WW2
  • Pearl harbor attacked

    Surprise military attack on American ships docked in pearl harbor, caused America to enter the war
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    Battle of stalingrad

    Nazi germany fought Soviet union for occupation of Stalingrad
  • D-Day Invasion

    The beginning of the end of the war in Europe
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    Battle of the bulge

    German army launcged a counteroffensive against the Allied soldiers
  • Auschwitz liberated

    Liberated by the red army, hundreds of thousands of Polish people as well as jews were said to have been held in Auschwitz
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    Yalta Conference

  • Germany surrenders

    Unconditional surrender of all German troops, East and West, demanded by Dwight Eisenhower
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    Nuremberg Trials

    After the war, some people who were guilty of crimes committed during the Holocaust were put on trial held in nuremberg, Germany