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Joseph Stalin Comes to power.
Lenin dies and Stalin comes in to power. -
Beginning of Great Depression
This is when everything began to crash and they made a tariff in efforts to better the depression. All they did was make it worse. -
Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Hitler’s emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. -
Invasion of Ethiopia
Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German.The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige -
Neutrality Act
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, which bans travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations. -
Japan invades China
China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Chancellor Salutes
Zeppelin field Nuremberg German Chancellor and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler salutes with lifted arm the baton salute of FieldMarshal von Blomberg. -
Chamberlain went to Hitler and asked him to sign a peace treaty
Chamberlain went to Hitler and asked him to sign a peace treaty between the United Kingdom and Germany. -
Germany invaded Poland.
This is the official beginning of WWII. -
France declares war with Germany
France was unhappy that Germany began invading Poland. So they declared war and then other people joined in and that was the start of WWII. -
Germany Invades Norway and Denmark
On this day in 1940, German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities. -
Germany Attacks France
Attacked through the Ardennes Forest in Northern France. -
Enigma key is broken.
On this day, crackerjack British cryptologists break the secret code used by the German army to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front. -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japan navel bases made a surprise air attack on the United States. Over 400,00 Americans died. -
Rommel Forces were defeated
20,000 U.S. soldiers killed or wounded in six months. -
Invasion of Sicily
This was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers (Italy and Nazi Germany). It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign. -
D-Day
The Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. The operation had been years in the making. This victory is the beginning of the end of Hitler's attack. -
Korematsu v. United States
During World War II, Presidential Executive Order 9066 and congressional statutes gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. -
V-E Day (Victory In Europe Day)
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms. The Germans finally surrendered. So Europe and the United States celebrated on this day and hung banners up as pride in their victory. -
Victory Over Japan Day
Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II. The United States took over one of their pieces of land. Then they captured one of their leaders. Their naval forces were destroyed. Then they surrendered.
