WWII timeline

  • Benito Mussolini's fascist government in Italy

    Benito Mussolini's fascist government in Italy

    Fascism places the state instead of the individual as the most important thing
  • Joseph Stalin's totalitarian government in the Soviet Union

    Joseph Stalin's totalitarian government in the Soviet Union

    Totalitarian Government Set up to rule every aspect of citizen life
  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    Invaded province of Manchuria in china and helped to bring military leaders into power in japan
  • Storm troopers

    Storm troopers

    Hitlers private army
  • Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany

    Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany

    With struggle politics and Desperate Germans, he quickly rose to power with the promise of making Germany great again.
  • Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf

    Book written by hitler outlining his issues with current affairs and what he would to to fix them
  • Third Reich

    Third Reich

    The government set up by Hitler that he promised would last 1000 years
  • Hitler's military build-up in Germany

    Hitler's military build-up in Germany

    The league of nations did nothing to stop Hitlers upbringing of military forces
  • Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia

    Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia

    Mussolini invades Ethiopia and controls it by 1936.
  • Rome-Berlin Axis

    Rome-Berlin Axis

    The formal alliance between Mussolini and Hitler
  • Hitler invades the Rhineland

    Hitler invades the Rhineland

    Hitler retakes Rhineland in violation of the treaty of Versailles and uses its natural resources to power his army
  • Francisco Franco

    Francisco Franco

    totalitarian dictator of Spain
  • Hitler's Anschluss

    Hitler's Anschluss

    Hitler marches in to Austria unopposed and annexes it.
  • Munich Agreement

    Munich Agreement

    This turned the Sudetenland over to Germany with no casualty's and stated that Hitler would not grab more land
  • Nonaggression pact

    Nonaggression pact

    treaty between Hitler and Stalin stating they will never attack each other
  • Blitzkreig

    Blitzkreig

    Fast war- Tanks, planes, cars and anything to get them to advance very fast on an enemy
  • Britain and france declare war on germany

    Britain and france declare war on germany

    Two Days after the invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany
  • Phony War

    Phony War

    France and Britain bolstered France's Border with Germany by posting soldiers on chairs and nothing ever happened
  • Hitler's invasion of Denmark and Norway

    Hitler's invasion of Denmark and Norway

    Germany invaded these countries saying it was necessary to liberate them but actually took them for being a strategic point to attack both Britain and France
  • Germany and Italy's invasion of France

    Germany and Italy's invasion of France

    Hitler gives his demands to France and seizes control of France
  • Marshal Philippe Petain

    Marshal Philippe Petain

    Head of Frances puppet government under the control of Germany
  • The Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain

    Germany continuously bombed Britain With the Luftwaffe and Britain held their own