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Stalin comes to power
In 1912, Lenin, then in exile in Switzerland, Joseph Stalin was to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Three years later, in November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. and The Soviet Union was founded in 1922 with Lenin as its first leader. -
Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
Italian dictator Benito rose to power in the beginning of World War I as a leading proponent of Fascism. He forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922. Mussolini allied himself with Adolf Hitler, relying on the German dictator to give a higher leadership during World War I. He was killed shortly after the surrender in Italy in 1945. -
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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
On January 30 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) as chancellor of Germany. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust a killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany during World War II. The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.” This word was chosen because in the ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program. The bodies of the victims were consumed on open fires. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the event the Nazi party would go and take the Jewish people from their homes and put them in concentration camps where the ultimately go to die. In doing this he was trying to eliminate the Jewish people and have more people of the Aryan race alive -
Non-aggression pact
The Nonaggression Pact started on August 23, 193. The nonaggression pact was between Germany and the Soviet Union that was concluded only a few days before the beginning of World War II and which divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet Union "spheres of influences". -
Invasion of Poland and start of WWII
The German air-force bombed Polish airfields and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic a contest between the Western Allies and the Axis powers for the control of Atlantic sea routes. For the Allied powers, the battle had three objectives which was blockade of the Axis powers in Europe, security of Allied sea movements, and freedom to project military power across the seas. The Axis hoped to frustrate Allied use of the Atlantic to wage war. -
Phoney War "Sitzreig"
Phoney War is the name given to the period of time in World War II from September 3 1939 to May 10 1940. After the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, nothing happened. Many in Great Britain expected a disaster. The term ‘Phoney War’ was first used by an American senator called Borah. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was during World War II. The defense of Great Britain against destructive air raids conducted by the German air force from July 10 through October 31 1940. In this event, the battle was won by the Royal Air Force Fighter Command, whose victory not only blocked the possibility of invasion but also created the conditions for Great Britain’s survival, for the extension of the war, and for the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. -
Lend-lease Act passed in US
The Lend-Lease Act was passed on March 11, 1941, this act provided U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. The act allowed the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials to which Congress seized money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” Britain, the Soviet Union, China, Brazil, and other countries received weapons under this law. -
Hitler invades Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor attack
A day FDR describes as " a day which will live in infamy. The Pearl Harbor bombing was surprise attack on America influenced by Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo. Japan attacked because the US stopped supplying them with the vital fuel they needed for their attacks on China and the Philippines -
America declares war on Japan and enters WWII
The attack on Pearl leaves FDR no choice but to declare war on Japan. Three days later, Italy and Germany declared war on the United States ultimately bringing America into WWII -
War Production Board crated
An agency that assumed the responsibilities of ensuring the armed forces and war industries received the resources they needed to win WWII -
Executive Order 9066
Signed 10 weeks after the Pearl Harbor bombing, FDR issues this authorizing the removal of people from military areas deemed "necessary and desirable" and by June more the 110,000 Japanese Americans were placed in remote internment camps in scattered locations across the country -
Iwo Jima (Pacific Battles)
Known as one of the bloodiest battles in American history, The battle of was the invasion of Iwo Jima by the US aand captured form the Japanese -
Battle of the Coral Sea (Pacific Battles)
This 4 day battle was the first air-sea battle in history. In the effort to seek control of the Coral Sea area, the Japanese invaded southeast New Guinea. Their plans were soon foiled by the allied forces. The battle was fought both on land and the sky and after America used their strategic plan the Allied powers won and the Japanese did not have enough air carriers to keep the cover for the ground attack. -
Battle of Midway (Pacific Battles)
After a successful victory at the Battle of Coral Sea, the US are in a great offensive position for the next battle. Japan's plan, lead by Admiral Yamamoto Isoruku, was to invade relatively close to Pearl Harbor to draw out the American fleet. Instead of the Japanese's plan working out in there favor America came out on top with the help of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his intelligence of being able to solve the Japanes fleet codes -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. Russians consider it to be the greatest battle of their Great Patriotic War. It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million. -
Operation Torch
On November 8, 1942, the military forces of the United States and the United Kingdom launched an amphibious operation against French North Africa. The French-held territories of Algeria and Morocco. The code-name ‘Torch,’ reflected the results of long and contentious arguments between British and American planners about the future course of Allied strategy. -
Office of War Mobilization created
Established by FDR to supervise the host of defense agencies that had sprung up in Washington D.C and to bring order out of the chaos as industry began converting to war production -
Invasion of Sicily/ Italy
The Allies’ Italian Campaign began with the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. After 38 days of fighting, the U.S. and Great Britain successfully drove German and Italian troops from Sicily and prepared to assault the Italian mainland. -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed on a 50 mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Okinawa (Pacific Battles)
Also known as Operation Iceberg, was the most vast operation the Allied powers have ever face. It also resulted in the largest number of casualties with over 100,000 Japanese and 50,000 Allied casualties -
Battle of Berlin
The Battle for Berlin marked the end of World War Two in Europe. The Battle for Berlin, along with the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic and D-Day, was an importance in the European sector. It was fought between April and May 1945. -
Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide on by shooting himself in an underground bunker on April 30th 1945. His wife also committed suicide alongside with him by taking cyanide -
V-E Day
the day marking the victory of the Allied powers -
Dropping of the atomic bombs
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II. -
End of WWII
When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, it was the second time the world went to war. With the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945, World War II was over.