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Mussolini take power in Italy
Mussolini allied himself with Hitler, relying on the German dictator to prop up his leadership during World War II, but he was killed shortly after the German surrender in Italy in 1945. -
U.S. Stock Market Crashes
the Stock Market crashes and millions of people lose all the money they had in their savings. The market had lost over $30 billion in the space of two days which included $14 billion on October 29 alone. -
FDR is elected president
Roosevelt was elected when the country was suffering from a nation wide problem due to the Great Depression, He was thrown into a situation where people thought it was terrible. But little did they know he was going to change everything. -
Hitler is Nmaed Chancellor of Germany
Hitler’s emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. -
France militarizes the Rhineland
The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the Germans took place on March 7th 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. -
Anschluss
Anschluss was the Nazi term for the invasion and incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany. -
Munich Conference
Conference held in Munich during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
A massive attack on Jews by the Germans on November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in Moscow on 23 August 1939 -
Germany invades Poland
German forces attack Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler tries to regain lost territory and rule Poland. -
Phony War
The Phoney War refers to the relatively quiet eight-month period at the start of World War II between the declaration of war by the Western Allies against Nazi Germany just after the Invasion of Poland and the German Blitzkrieg. -
U.S. Neutrality Act
Roosevelt responded to the European war by issuing a proclamation of neutrality. At the same time, he took a number of steps designed to help Britain. He pushed a fourth Neutrality Act through Congress, which permitted belligerents to purchase war materials, provided that they paid cash and carried the goods away in their own ships. -
Churchill is Elected Prime Minister of England
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Miracle at Dunkirk
The Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France. -
France Surrenders
France gives up fighting due to forces of Germany. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940. -
Japan seizes french Indo-China
On September 1940, the Japanese invaded Vichy French Indochina to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway. -
Lend-Lease Act
President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on March 11th 1941. It permitted him to sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
