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Mussolini and the Fascists come to power in Italy
Introduction In 1922, Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) came to power as the prime minister of Italy and the leader of the National Fascist Party. At first, he ruled democratically and constitutionally, but in 1925, he turned Italy into a one-party, totalitarian state, and ruled as Italy’s dictator. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japanese had suffered from the great depression and was seeking a way to overcome the depression by expanding its empire, the Japanese was at the time being run by the military and therefore was building up its army and therefore the Japanese invaded Manchuria to show how powerful their military was. -
Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany
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Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was an astonishingly successful strategy for the Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) in the months leading up to World War II. The agreement was signed on Sept. 30, 1938, and in it, the powers of Europe willingly conceded to Nazi Germany's demands for the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to keep "peace in our time." -
Kristallnacht
he occasion of concerted violence by Nazis throughout Germany and Austria against Jews and their property on the night of November 9–10, 1938. -
Bombing of Perl Harbor, Hawaii
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 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. -
Formation of the Axis Powers
The Pact of Steel is signed; the Axis is formed On May 22, 1939, Italy and Germany agree to a military and political alliance, giving birth formally to the Axis powers, which will ultimately include Japan. -
Germany and the USSR sign the Non-Aggression Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact , stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies. -
Neutrality Acts Passed in the US
The Neutrality Acts were a series of laws enacted by the United States government between 1935 and 1939 that were intended to prevent the United States from becoming involved in foreign wars. They more-or-less succeeded until the imminent threat of World War II spurred passage of the 1941 Lend-Lease Act (H.R. 1776), which repealed several key provisions of the Neutrality Acts. -
Germany invades Poland Beginning of WWII
German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. -
Battle of the Atlantic
A war between the western allies and axis power -
Rescue at Dunkirk
The evacuation of the British Expeditionary force and other allied troops from the French seaport of Dunkirk -
France falls to Germany
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. On 3 September 1939 France had declared war on Germany, following the German invasion of Poland. In early September 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive. -
Presidential election of 1940
would break American tradition and run for a 3rd term. -
Congress passes the Lend Lease Act
On March 11, 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act. The law authorized the President to provide assistance to any country the President deemed vital to the interests of the United States. -
Bataan Death March
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Formation of the United Nations
The Formation of the United Nations, 1945 On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
Relocation of Japanese Americans to camps
Japanese American internment, the forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II. That action was the culmination of the federal government’s long history of racist and discriminatory treatment of Asian immigrants and their descendants that had begun with restrictive immigration policies in the late 1800s. -
Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway has often been called "the turning point of the Pacific". It was the Allies' first major naval victory against the Japanese, won despite the Japanese Navy having more forces and experience than its American counterpart. -
Manhattan project
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II. -
Rosie the Riveter Campaign encourages woman to get a job
Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II, and she became perhaps the most iconic image of working women. American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during the war, as widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force. https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Features/story/Article/1791664/rosie-the-riveter-inspired-women-to-serve-in-world-war-ii/ -
D-Day Invasion
Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. -
Allied Invasion/Victory in the Philippines
Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. -
Presidential election of 1944
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Battle of the Bulge
The major German offensive on the western Front -
Yalta Conference
a meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 at Yalta, a Crimean port on the Black Sea. The leaders planned the final stages of World War II and agreed on the subsequent territorial division of Europe. -
V-E Day
the day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Surrender of Japan
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
