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WWII Timeline-Sean Gasperson

  • Period: to

    events that lead up to the second world war

  • Stalin becomes dictator of USSR

    Stalin becomes dictator of USSR

    Following lenins death, Stalin came to power on April 3 1922 and turned Russia into a dictatorship. He transformed the nation into a major world power.
  • Mussolini’s March on Rome

    Mussolini’s March on Rome

    The way in which Mussolini came to power in Italy in late October 1922. This marked the beginning of the fascist rule in Italy
  • Hitler writes Mein Kampf

    Hitler writes Mein Kampf

    the autobiographical manifesto also describes how he became antisemitic, how he has witnessed Germany be wronged, and his agenda.
  • 1st “five year plan” in USSR

    1st “five year plan” in USSR

    It was implemented by Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods
  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan had a highly developed industry, but the land was scarce of natural resources. Japan turned to Manchuria for oil, rubber and lumber
  • Holodomor

    Holodomor

    was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933. This was due to the rapid industrialization, decreasing agriculture workforce and several bad droughts
  • Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

    Hitler was appointed chancellor following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. This mark a crucial turning point for Germany and later the world.
  • “Night of the Long Knives” in Germany

    “Night of the Long Knives” in Germany

    was the purge of the SA leadership and other political opponents from
  • Nuremburg Laws enacted

    Nuremburg Laws enacted

    were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany
  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century
  • The Great Purge and gulags

    The Great Purge and gulags

    It was a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat
  • Spanish civil war

    Spanish civil war

    War was the failure of Spanish democracy. This failure resulted from the refusal of the Spanish political parties and groups to compromise and respect democratic norms.
  • The Rape of Nanking

    The Rape of Nanking

    In the Second Sino-Japanese War Japanese troops engaged in mass murder and mass rape against the residents of Nanjing.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany
  • Nazi Germany invades Poland

    Nazi Germany invades Poland

    was an attack on the Second Polish Republic by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.
  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor