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France signs peace treaties with Germany and Italy
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/paris-peace The Paris Peace Conference convened in January 1919 The conference was made to keep the peace agreements after World War I. Only just thirty nations participated, the representatives of the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and Italy became known as the “Big Four.” The “Big Four” dominated the creation of the treaty -
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Invasion of manchuria by the Japanese
Within these few years the Japanese armed forces took full control over several stategic points in manchuria. Whilst they were very paranoid conviced chinese sabotaged the railway,thus attacking the chinese army. By febuary of 1932, the japanese conquered the entire manchuria, the L.O.N sent a delegation to find outwhat happened in manchuria. Only to find out japanese were in the wrong and manchuria should be returned japanese voted against it and walked out of the league.In 1933 japan invaded. -
Hidenburg elected German President
In April 1925, after the death of Friedrich Ebert, Hindenburg was elected the republic’s second president, despite his professed monarchism. He adhered, if not to the spirit, then at least to the letter of the republican constitution. Yet his personal confidants, among them especially Maj. Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, longed for a new authoritarian regime and urged him to use his prestige and render the government more independent of parliamentary controls. Though tired of the frequent Cabinet cris -
Hitler named Chancellor of Germany
Mobile-friendly, on this day in 1933, President Paulvon Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fUhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
HItler Seizes power in Germany
Hitler was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who attracted a wide following of Germans desperate for change. He promised the disenchanted a better life and a new and glorious Germany. The Nazis appealed especially to the unemployed, young people, and members of the lower middle class (small store owners, office employees, craftsmen, and farmers). -
11. Hitler officially assumes the Presidency, after Hindenburg dies
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/Hitler-Appointed-Chancellor.htm
Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg. This decision was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in line ' Instead it created lasting termoil for Germany and the entire European continent. -
Japan leaves league of Nations
http://www.enemyinmirror.com/colonialism/japan-leaves-the-league-of-nations/When the league of Nations issued a statement to warn Japan for the aggression in Manchuria, they suprised everyone by walking out of the Genevia conference in febuary of 1933. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected POTUS
The height of the great depression, Franklin D.Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United StatesIn his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his “New Deal”–an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare–and told Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Although it was a rainy day in Washington, and gusts of rain blew over Roosevelt as he spoke, he d -
Dachau ,established in Germany
it was the very first nazi camp it was initially established to hold the third race, only a minority of whom were jews, it soon grew to hold a diverse population of people tartgted by nazi's -
Legislation creates sterilazation practices for unfit parents in Germany
http://reducetheburden.org/compulsory-sterilization/
One of the first acts by Adolf Hitler after achieving total control over the German government was to pass the Law for the Prevention of Hereditary diseases (in July 1933.) The law was signed in by Hitler himself, and over 200 eugenic courts were created specifically as a result of the law. -
Nazi party is the made the only political party in Germany
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Nazi-Party
The German government declared the Nazi Party to be the only political party in Germany. On the death of Hindenburg in 1934 Hitler took the titles of Führer (“Leader”), and remained the leader of many other groups as well. -
Germany Leaves the league of Nations
https://www.beyondbandofbrothers.com/leagueofnations/Germany then leaves right after japans suprising walk out, After the conference on the reduction of military weapons .Germany then completly leaves the league a week later this opens the door for alowing germany to have as many military weapons as they pleased. -
United States passes first of multiple Neutrality Acts
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/neutrality-acts
From the events from the 1930's in Europe and Asia showed how a new war would erupt. The U.S. began to enforce the Neutrality -
The first Nuremburg laws are passed in Germany
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/Nuremberg-Laws.htm
The Nuremburg laws were passed to take German citizenship away from Jews and outlawed both marriage and sex between Jews and non-Jews. Unlike historical antisemitism, they Nuremberg Laws defined Jewishness by heredity instead of by religious practices. -
Italy attacks and invades Ethiopia
http://globerove.com/italy/Italy-Invades-Ethiopia/3626
The italian nation's leader mussolini had his eyes set on gaining the country of ethiopia into Italy’s new colony of East Africa. Although the Italian military was successful in occupying Ethiopia, the country still did not surrender. -
Rome-Berlin Axis is Created
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Rome-Berlin-Axis
A pact is formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany, and agreement was formed by italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Cianno linking two fascists countries by steel in 1939. -
Japan and Germany sign the Anti-Comiterm Pact
http://spartacus-educational.com/GERanti.htm
Ribbentrop made an agreement between Germany and Japan declared the anger beyween the two countries to internatonal communism,in case of an unprovoked attack by the soviet union against Germany or Japan .The two nations agreed to not make any political treaties with the soviet union to guard their political interest. -
The Japanese invade china
http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub5/item59.html The Second Sino-Japanese War began with the invasion of China by the the Imperial Japanese Army. This event became part of World War II, which is then known in China as the War of Resistance Against Japan. -
The neutrality act of 1937
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/neutrality-acts
Congress passed the first neutrility act prohibiting the export of Guns and Ammunition , and the implements of war. from the U.S. and foreign nations of war nations at war and the needed manufacturers in the U.S. to apply for an expert license. -
The rape of nanking
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm
he Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and went on to maassacre 300,000 out of 600,000 people the city. The six weeks of death would become known as the Rape of Nanking and is presented as the single worst genocide during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific era of war. -
Anschluss
http://spartacus-educational.com/2WWanschluss.htm
the union of Austria and Germany increased after Adolf Hitler became German Chancellor.Hitler invited Kurt von Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chancellor, to meet him at Berchtesgarden. Hitler demanded concessions for the Austrian Nazi Party. -
France and Britain begin to practice Appeasement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/chamberlainandappeasementrev2.shtmlGermans living in the border areas of Czechoslovakia started to demand a union with Hitler's Germany. The Czechs refused. Hitler threatened war. On 30 September, in the Munich Agreement - without asking Czechoslovakia - Britain and France gave the Sudetenland to Germany. -
Kristallnacht
http://www.britannica.com/event/Kristallnacht
German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property. The name Kristallnacht refers to the broken glass left in the streets after these events . The violence continued on during the next day and in some places acts of violence continued for several more days after. -
Germany annexesthe rest of Czechoslovakia
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-czech.htm
The Nazis would begin by setting free the suffering ethnic Germans in The North and West border regions of Czechoslovakia ,a move that would meet with few complications,and then use The Sudetenland as a base from which to achieve the occupation of all Czechoslovakia. -
Poland is invaded by the Germans
1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. While at the same time , the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Adolf Hitler the German leader ,claimed the massive invasion was defense against but Britain and France did not believe this .On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II. -
Britain declares war of Germany
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-declare-war-on-germany
in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overun nation declare war on Germany.
The first lost of that declaration was not German but the British ocean liner Athenia, which was sunk by a German U-30 submarine that had assumed the liner was armed and dangerous. -
Germany invades Paris
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005181Germany attacked in the west on May 10, 1940. Initially, British and French commanders had believed that German forces would attack through central Belgium as they had in World War I, and rushed forces to the Franco-Belgian border to meet the German attack. The main German attack went through the Ardennes Forest in southeastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. German tanks and weapons quickly broke through the French defensive lines and advanced to the coast. -
Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-becomes-prime-ministerHe formed an all-party union and quickly won the popular support of the british people. On May 13, in his first speech before the House of Commons, Prime Minister Churchill declared that “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat” and offered information on of his bold plans for British resistance. -
Italy declares war on France and Britain
after withholding formal allegiance to either side in the battle between Germany and the Allies, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, declares war on France and Great Britain. -
The Battle of Britain
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-britain In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom. A major turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to third term
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America’s 32nd president, is nominated for a third term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms. -
The Germans sign a military agreement with the Japanese
https://worldhistoryproject.org/1940/9/27/germany-italy-and-japan-sign-tripartite-pact
the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance if any of them should suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. This solidifyed the alliance that was aimed directly to U.S. -
Italy invades Greece
Mussolini’s army, already occupying Albania, invades Greece in what will prove to be a military campaign for the Duce’s forces.Mussolini surprised everyone with this move against Greece; even his ally, Adolf Hitler, was caught by suprise. especially since the Duce had led Hitler to believe he had no such intention. Hitler denounced the move as a major . According to Hitler, Mussolini should have concentrated on North Africa, continuing the advance into Egypt. -
Germany invades Greece and Yugoslavia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-yugoslavia-and-greeceThe attack on Yugoslavia was quick and crucial. An act of terror resulting in the death of 17,000 civilians the biggest number of civilian death in a single day since the start of the war. Making the deaths and all the worse was that nearby towns and villages had emptied out into the capital city to celebrate Palm Sunday. All of Yugoslavia’s airfields were also bombed, destroying most of its 600 aircraft while still on the ground. -
Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg invaded by Germany
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/as-germany-invades-holland-and-belgium-winston-churchill-becomes-prime-minister-of-great-britain2,500 German aircraft proceeded to bomb airfields in Belgium, Holland, France, and Luxembourg, and 16,000 German airborne troops parachuted into Rotterdam, Leiden, and The Hague. A hundred more German troops, employing air gliders, landed and took the Belgian bridges across the Albert Canal. After five days the belgium army was defeated and taken over. -
The Soviets invade Poland, leading to the division of Poland between the USSR and Germany
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/invasion_poland_01.shtml
When Hitler invaded Poland, he was confident that Britain and France would continue their policy of appeasement and broker a peace deal. Bradley Lightbody considers his miscalculation and how it led Europe to stumble into war. -
The 'Final Solution"
The origin of the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people, remains uncertain. What is clear is that the genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. The "Final Solution" was implemented in stages. After the Nazi party rise to power, state-enforced racism resulted in anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, "Aryanization," and finally the "Night of Broken Glass" pogrom, all of which aimed to remove the Jews from German soc -
Germans attack the Soviet Union
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164German settlement had been a major policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s. Adolf Hitler had always regarded the German-Soviet nonaggression pact, signed on August 23, 1939, as a temporary strategic manuever In July 1940, just weeks after the German conquest of France and the Low Countries, Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union within the following year. -
The Atlantic Charter
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/atlantic-charterthe United States and Great Britain issued a joint declaration in August 1941 that set out a vision for the postwar world. In January 1942, a group of 26 Allied nations pledged their support for this declaration. -
Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary, and Romania
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The US declares war on Japan
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-united-states-declares-war-on-japanas America’s Pacific fleet lay in ruins at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt requests, and receives, a declaration of war against Japan.
Leaning heavily on the arm of his son James, a Marine captain, FDR walked into the House of Representatives at noon to request a declaration of war. -
Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Germany declares war on the United States
On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict. The bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised even Germany. Although Hitler had made an oral agreement with his Axis partner Japan that Germany would join a war against the United States, he was uncertain as to how the war would be engaged. Japan’s attack on Pearl H -
Japanese-Americans sent to interment camps
According to the census of 1940, 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived in the United States, the majority on the West Coast. One-third had been born in Japan, and in some states could not own land, be naturalized as citizens, or vote. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, rumors spread, fueled by race prejudice, of a plot among Japanese-Americans to sabotage the war effort. In early 1942, the Roosevelt administration was pressured to remove persons of Japanese ancestry from the -
Japan captures Bataan
The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began. Within a month, the Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the American and Filipino defenders of Luzon (the island on which Manila is located) were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. For the next three months, the combined U.S.-Filipino army held out despite a lack of naval and air support. Finally, on April 9, with his forces cr -
Battles of Coral Sea
he first air-sea battle in history and an engagement in which the lead role was played by aircraft launched from ships at sea, this battle resulted from Japanese efforts to make an amphibious landing at Port Moresby in southeast New Guinea. Unknown to the Japanese, Allied codebreakers had learned enough about enemy communications to discern Japanese plans in time for Allied fleets to assemble in the Coral Sea. Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher commanded American task forces, including two large air -
Battle of Midway Island
On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Solomon Islands Campaign lasted six months and consisted of a number of major battles—on land, at sea and in the air. American forces first landed on the Solomon Islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi and Florida on the morning of August 7, 1942. After some fierce fighting, the Marines cleared Tulagi and Florida by August 9. The main forces on Guadalcanal met little resistance on their way inland to secure the airfield at Lunga Point (soon to be renamed Henderson Field). Almost immediately, Japanese -
Allies begin offensive in Northern Tunisia
That landing, code-named ‘Torch,’ reflected the results of long and contentious arguments between British and American planners about the future course of Allied strategy — arguments that were finally stilled by the intervention of the American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In both a direct and an indirect sense, Torch’s impact was enormous on the course of Anglo-American strategy during the remainder of the war. It may have been the most important strategic decision that Allied leaders woul -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htmAboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, crew members cheer on the leaving pilots. A photo taken from a Japanese plane during the attack shows vulnerable American battleships, and in the distance, smoke rising from the ships .Hickam Airfield where 35 men having breakfast in the mess hall were killed after a direct bomb hit. -
Germans surrender in Tunisia
Total prisoners, once they were counted, came closer to 250,000, bringing the Italian and German losses for the North African campaign to nearly one million. They had won nothing from it.
Alan Moorehead, who had chronicled the campaign all the way through, was still there at the end. He summed up the mood -
Mussolini is dismissed and arressted in Italy
Benito Mussolini was dismissed today as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III and placed under arrest, bringing an end to his dictatorship of more than 20 years.
Mussolini was replaced by Marshal Pietro Badoglio, who declared his willingness to continue fighting alongside Nazi Germany but would secretly negotiate a surrender to the Allies. -
Italy makes peace with the Allies
The British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria–the “toe” of Italy. On the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies’ terms for surrender, but no public announcement was made until September 8. -
Berlin surrenders to Soviet forces
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II. -
Unconditional surrender of all German forces
On this day in 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. -
Dachau taken by US soldiers
On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day by the 42nd Rainbow Division. -
Hitler commits suicide
Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945, as his “1,000-year” Reich collapses above him. -
V-E Day
V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
UN Charter signed
The Charter of the United Nations (UN Charter) of 1945 is the foundational treaty of the intergovernmental organization; the United Nations. It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, United States, on 26 June 1945, by 50 of the 51 original member countries. -
Potsdam Declaration
The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender is a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. -
Nagasaki
World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; -
Hiroshima
World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure -
VJ Day
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II. On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ Day. -
Mussolini captured and killed
On this day in 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
