WWII

Mussolini Becomes Prime Minister

Mar 1, 1922

Benito Mussolini forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and becomes prime minister of Italy in 1922.

Stalin Comes To Power

Mar 2, 1924

In 1912, in exile in Switzerland, Lenin appointed Joseph Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik party.

The Holocaust

Jan 30, 1933

This was a genocide in which some six million European Jews by Adolf Hitlers Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with Germany.

Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, after a series of parliamentary elections.

Invasion of Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invaded Poland and within weeks the Polish Army was defeated, and this was against the Treaty of Versailles, therefore WWII broke out.

Lend Lease Act Passed

Mar 3, 1941

This act was proposed in late 1940, and it was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during WWII.