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Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
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A diplomatic milestone that saw an end to Britain's splendid isolation, the alliance was renewed and expanded in scope twice, in 1905 and 1911, before its demise in 1921.
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A line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapons installations that France constructed along its borders with Germany during the 1930s
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Two revolutions swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and setting in motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union.
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The outbreak of the First World War and the collapse of the Russian Empire gave Finland a window of opportunity; on 6 December 1917, the Senate of Finland declared the nation's independence.
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A meeting that inaugurated the international settlement after World War I.
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Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty.
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Between 1921 and 1922, the world’s largest naval powers gathered in Washington for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia.
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An agreement made in the Italian town of Rapallo on April 16, 1922 between Germany and the Soviet Russia under which each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I.
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The March on Rome was a coup d'état by which Mussolini's National Fascist Party came to power in Italy and ousted Prime Minister Luigi Facta.
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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempted coup d'état which came to be known as the Beer Hall Putsch.
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His connections helped him attain high positions in the new Soviet government, eventually becoming General Secretary in 1922.
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It was a blueprint of his agenda for a Third Reich and a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945.
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A sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth.
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The appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check”; however, it would have disastrous results for Germany and the entire European continent.
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Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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Categorized as genocide in the annals of history, however muted its presence is in mainstream history textbooks
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A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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He targeted members of his cabinet and government, soldiers, clergy, intellectuals, or anyone else he deemed suspect.
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A purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders.
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When word came in 1937 that Austria could be taken, the plans to take Czechoslovakia were moved aside.
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Papen almost convinced Hindenburg to declare in his will that Germany should return to a constitutional monarchy upon his death.
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Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics.
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An episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
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Britain had already given way to Hitler on a number of occasions, but it was the events of the Sudeten crisis which showed appeasement in action – trying to buy off Hitler by giving way to his demands.
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The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe, without the presence of Czechoslovakia.
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German invades Czechoslovakia, taking full control over the nation after taking pieces as part of the Munich Pact.
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Felt it would draw them into the middle of the European war and would not be able to concentrate in their battle with China.
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The act that started World War II.
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In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany.
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Germany invaded both Denmark and Norway the same day, 9 April 1940.
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Norway was continuously occupied by the Wehrmacht.
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Successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces.
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First major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces.
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Code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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Australian troops approach a German-held strong point under the protection of a heavy smoke screen somewhere in the Western Desert, in Northern Africa.
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Sir Winston Churchill was a British prime minister and statesman who led the country to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War Two.
