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Mussolini Assumes Power
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism. Originally a revolutionary Socialist, he forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on the 28th of June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Rise of Stalin to power
After the Bolshevik revolution Stalin went into the government. His connections helped him attain high positions in the new Soviet government, eventually becoming General Secretary in 1922. This eventually led him to be the sole uncontested leader of the Party and the Soviet Union. -
Hitler Assumes Power in Germany
Hitler started off by rising to power in the Nazi party. Hitler then became chancellor of Germany because he vowed to fix the economy. after that he blamed the Reichstag fire on a communist and assumed full power from that because they were in a state of emergency. . -
Nuremberg Laws
At the annual meeting rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which made many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying with people of German or related blood. -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia. Along the country's borders were mainly german people lived. The league of nation would choose appeasement instead of war. -
Kristallnacht
On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. In fact, German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the programs. -
Hitler and Stalin Sign a Non Aggressive-Pact
The two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. Adolf Hitler used the pact to make sure Germany was able to invade Poland unopposed. The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact fell apart in June 1941, when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. -
Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. This marked the beggining of WWII. -
France surrenders to Germany
the german army was on the verge of taking over paris. The prime minister of France signed an armistice with Germany to save the city. France was taken over just weeks after their invasion. -
Tripartite act
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy. It was a defensive military alliance that was eventually joined by Hungary. -
Battle of Britian
A significant 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 despite months of targeting Britain's air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population. -
Lend Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. This allowed people to get money from foreign nations. -
Pearl Harbour
Japan surprised attacked the US and destroyed half of their naval fleet. The US declared war on the Japan the next day. It was the biggest mistake Japan ever made. -
Japanese internment camps
Camps that held concentrated populations of Japanese Americans. they put them in camps because they were of japenese and we were fighting the Japanese. They were treated cruelly and unfairly. -
Bataan Death March
After the US surrender of Bataan. The 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was far more than an epic WWII clash somewhere far away at sea. It was an American victory that forever changed the course of world history. This is the battle that turned the tide of the war, that shifted the balance of naval superiority, and that demonstrated the potential power and extraordinary capabilities of our Navy and its Sailors. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was a battle to see which Naval Army is the most powerful. The result of this was the biggest Naval battle in World War 2. This can maybe be looked upon as the biggest Naval Battle in history. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, on the Western Front, towards the end of World War II, in the European theatre. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. One of the most famous paintings in World War 2 history comes from this hard fought battle. -
Battle of Okinawa
The battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, took place in April-June 1945. It was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. -
V-E Day
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Manhatten Project
The Manhattan Project was a research during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The United States became the first nation to use an atomic bomb during wartime when it dropped an atomic bomb onHiroshima. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II. It killed many people, but was very succusful. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
This was the second atomic bombed dropped on Japan. The US dropped the nuke three days after the first bomb. The second bomb killed less people. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is the day when Japan surrendered in World War II. On September 2, 1945, thr apanese signed the surrender document. this ended world war two. The rest of the world celebrated. -
Nuremberg Trials
These were a series of military trials, held by the Allied forces after World War II. They were for the prosecution of members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, and their decisions marked a turning point between classical international law and contemporary international law.
