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WWI
The victory over the Axis powers allowed the Allied powers to use The Treaty Of Versailles to force The Germans to disarm, give uplands, and pay vast sums of money. -
Rise Of Fascism
In Italy Benito Mussolini leader of the national fascist party marched on Rome and seized power. -
Joseph Stalin Takes Control
In the communist Soviet Union( now Russia), The head Valdimir Lenin dies. Joseph Stalin takes control -
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The great depression
The collapse of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street triggered the Great Depression, an Economic slump that spread across the western world. Millions lost their jobs and savings, and Germany suffered badly. -
Japan Invades
Japan invaded Manchuria on the east cost of china, to gain vital territory and minerals. -
Adolf Hitler Rises
Hitler, The leader of the Nazi party, seized power from president Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler was popular because he promisted to make germany great again. He immediately began to build up the countrys army and weopans. -
Hitler Reoccupies The Rhineland
When German troops entered the Rhineland on, the border with France, no one tried to stop them. -
Trouble in Spain
When the Spanish civil war began, Hitler and Mussolini helped the nationalist general Francisco Franco to victory. The German air force carried out the first large-scale bombings of civilians and destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937
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Treaty Of Friendship
Pact of Steel, Alliance between Germany and Italy. Signed by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on May 22, 1939, it formalized the 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis agreement. Later Germany, Italy, and Japan signed The Tripartite Pact on 27 September 1940. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, This is what got us involved in WWII.
