WW2 timeline

  • Mussolini comes to power in Italy

    Mussolini comes to power in Italy
    becomes prime minister of italy
  • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

    Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
    The Government of the German Reich and The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics desirous of strengthening the cause of peace between Germany and the U.S.S.R
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    The Maginot Line Constructed

    line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapons installations that France constructed along its borders with Germany during the 1930s.
  • Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany
    President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.
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    Spanish Civil War

    between the Republicans, who were loyal to the established Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco.
  • Japan attacks China

    Japan attacks China
    Japan attacks china in hope to expand
  • Hitler Invades Poland

    Hitler Invades Poland
    Hitler and stolland agreed to attack polland together and share the land for expansion
  • Tripartite Pact

    Tripartite Pact
    The pact was signed by representatives of Nazi Germany (Adolf Hitler), Fascist Italy (foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano), and Imperial Japan (Japanese ambassador to Germany Saburō Kurusu).
  • Stalin comes to power in USSR

    Stalin comes to power in USSR
    By the late 1920s, he was the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished it in 1952
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
    Japan attacked pearl harbor destroying our naval base and involving us in ww2