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Joseph Stalin
He took the same stalin which means "man of steel". He was arrested many times for various criminal activities, including bank heists, the proceeds from which were used to help fund the Bolshevik Party. -
Hitler
Hitler wanted to be in fine arts but his dad didnt approve of it. But when his father passed away, theyh moved into a shelter and Hitler ended up joining WWI. They killed about 6 million jews, hitler never did go to the camps or talked to anyone about the killings. -
Holocaust
The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” and “kaustos”), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. The twin goals of racial purity and spatial expansion were the core of Hitler’s worldview, and from 1933 onward they would combine to form the driving force behind his foreign and domestic policy -
concentration camps
Germans began mass transports from the ghettoes in Poland to the concentration camps, starting with those people viewed as the least useful: the sick, old and weak and the very young.Five more mass killing centers were built at camps in occupied Poland, including Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and the largest of all, Auschwitz-Birkenau. From 1942 to 1945, Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe, including German-controlled territory as well as those countries allied with Germ -
Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia
The invasion was a total war for both sides, Italy’s generals used mustard gas on civilians and had a ‘ten eyes for one eye’ policy , as well taxes grew to record proportions in Italy creating unrest on the common man. -
Spanish Civil War
On the afternoon of July 17, the plan for the next morning was discovered in the Moroccan town of Melilla, and the rebels were forced into premature action.On July 18, Spanish garrisons rose up in revolt all across Spain. -
Rome-Berlin Axis formed
In 1936, Japan had established a lengthy history of aggression in East-Asia and had withdrawn from the League of Nations.Hitler was pleased to accommodate Japan, and on 25 November 1936, Japan and Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact. In November 1937, Hitler told the chiefs of his armed forces that he intended to invade and seize Austria and Czechoslovakia. -
Annexing of Austria
On 12 Feb 1938, Hitler invited Schuschnigg to his home, Berghof, in Bavaria, Germany for a secret discussion. Schuschnigg politely addressed Hitler as "Herr Reichskanzler"On 7 Oct 1938, British Lord Halifax sent Berlin a letter questioning the reports of ill-treatment; he requested a statement from Berlin "to combat such assertions, the spreading of which might in fact hamper the advocates of Anglo-German relations in the realization of their aspirations." -
Poland Attacked
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.In October 1939, Germany directly annexed those former Polish territories along German's eastern border: West Prussia, Poznan, Upper Silesia, and the former Free City of Danzig -
Battle of Britain
August 13–15 the Luftwaffe soon abandoned that avenue and turned to attacks on RAF air bases.September 7 was quite successful; the second, on September 15, failed not only with heavy losses, but also with a collapse of morale among German bomber crews when British fighters appeared in large numbers and shot down many of the Germans. -
Hideki Tojo
Tojo was the Kwantung Army’s chief of staff in 1937.He went back to china in 1938 as army vice minister.Tojo made it clear that Japan should push south in the Far East and take land owned by European nations -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades.The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the United States had been edging toward war for decades. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.As early as May 2, messages that were intercepted began to indicate some forthcoming operation, and a key fact, the planned day-of-battle position of the Japanese carriers, would be divulged in a notice sent on May 16. By the time Nimitz had to make final decisions, the Japanese plans and order of battle had been reconstructed in considerable detail. -
Battle of Stalingrad
On September 3, 1942, the German Sixth Army under Paulus reached the outskirts of Stalingrad, expecting to take the city in short order On February 2, 1943, General Paulus surrendered what remained of his army-some 91,000 men. About 150,000 Germans had died in the fighting. -
Benito Mussolini
He created the Fascist party in italy in 1919.Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, attempted to escape to Switzerland, but were captured by the Italian underground on April 27, 1945 they were killed on april 28,1945 he overextended his forces during WWII so his on people killed him. -
D-Day
June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.After World War II began, Germany invaded and occupied northwestern France beginning in May 1940. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.The once-quiet region became bedlam as American units were caught flat-footed and fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and, later, Bastogne, which was defended by the 101st Airborne Division. -
Death of Roosevelt
it was about 1 p.m. that the president suddenly complained of a terrific pain in the back of my head and collapsed unconscious. One of the women summoned a doctor, who immediately recognized the symptoms of a massive cerebral hemorrhage and gave the president a shot of adrenaline into the heart in a vain attempt to revive him. -
V-E Day
The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists. -
Dropping of the Atomic bombs (2)
Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima.On this day in 1930, New York Supreme Court judge Joseph Force Crater vanished on the streets of Manhattan near Times Square. The dapper 41-year-old’s disappearance launched a massive investigation that captivated the nation, earning Crater the title of “the missingest man in New York.” -
V-J Day
The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.Japan’s devastating surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, capped a decade of deteriorating relations between Japan and the United States and led to an immediate U.S. declaration of war the following day -
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.On August 23, 1939, four days after the economic agreement was signed and a little over a week before the beginning of World War II, Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
