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The Paris Peace Conference was a meeting where they signed the Treaty of Versaille and ended WWI.
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A treaty signed by nine countries agreeing to respect China.
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Armed squads of Blackshirts march on Rome. Left the parlimentary monarchy of King Emmanual III in confusion. King offers to run coalition government and prceeded to the capitla with 300,000 supporters in a black shirt.
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Hitler's attept to overthrow the Weimar government. He also wanted to establish a one wing nationalistic government in it's place.
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An agreement to outlaw war. Also known as Pact of Paris for the city it was signed in.
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16 million shares were traded in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost. The world went into a great depression.
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Japan was running out of room in their own country. Manchuria was pretty big and was rich in minerals. Japan also wanted control over the province.
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This was supposed to keep Hitler and the Nazi party in check. No one knew what disastrous things it would lead to.
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The assembly came up with a report blaming Japan for the events in Manchuris. Japan was mad so they left.
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Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums (or ‘Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service’). This law abolished the employment rights of Jewish public servants and banned non-Aryans from holding state jobs.
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The Nazi party would murder political enemies. It was also known as "The Night of Long Knives" and "Operation Hummingbird".
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Jews lose their citizenship. This was a racist act from Hitler.
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Mussolini adopted Hitler's plan to make Germany bigger. The wanted all territories they considered German.
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Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending German military into the Rhineland.
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Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland. He broke the Treaty of Versaille and the Locarno Pact.
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General Francisco Franco is named head of the rebel Nationalist government in Spain. It would take more than two years for Franco to defeat the Republicans in the civil war and become ruler of all of Spain
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Germnay and Italy create an alliance.
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Hitler gave Austria a new Nazi Government. Austria was apart of Germany until the end of WWII.
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A conference to decide the fate of Chezolsivakia. It got signed over to Germany.
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Leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland. Hitler wanted more living space from the Germans.
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Nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. Divided up Eastern Europe into German and Soviet.
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A pact between Germany and the Soviets which to said they wouldn't fight each other.Germany was safe from fightimg a two front war.
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Germanys invade Poland on land, in the sky, and in the ocean. Hitler said it was a defensive act,but the league didn't belive him. They declared war and started WWII.
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German and British airforces clashed. The largest bombing campaign to date. Britian won and saved itself from a ground invasion.
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Allows nation to lend or lease war supplies if they're "vital to the defense of the United States".
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union. It was the largest German invasion of WWII.
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Japanese fighter attacked the American naval base in Hawaii. The day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked congress to decare war on Japan. The United States was now involved in WWII.
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Germans met to discuss the "final solution"
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16 American bombers attack the Japanese mainland.
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One of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during WWII. 4 day sea and air battle, Japan lost 4 planes the U.S. lost only one even though they were out numbered.
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Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad. It stopped the Germans from advancing into the Soviet Union.
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The Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy. Operation Overlord was the invasion of Europe stoppig Germany.
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This was a plan to assassinate Hitler.
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The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war. This was the largest battlefought on the Western front. Germany won.
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In his bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Hitler swallows a cyanide capsule and shoots himself in the head. A few days later the Nazis surreder to the allied powers.
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The trial ended with 25 of 28 Japanese defendants being found guilty. Of the three other defendants, two had died during the lengthy trial, and one was declared insane. The war crimes tribunal passed death sentences on seven of the men.
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"Victotry in Europe day". People put out banners and celebrated the defeat of the Nazis.
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America drops the first atom bomb on to Hiroshima. 80,000 people deadon the spot.
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Second atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Nagasaki. Japan finally surrenders.
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Allies celebrate the victory over Japan.
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Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany.
