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Attack on Pearl Harbour
Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. -
End of World War I - Armistice
Abdication of the Kaiser
Republican Government -
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The Rise of Italian Fascism
Benito Mussolini started a political movement he would later call fascism. In 1921, he formed the National Fascist Party (NFP). Mussolini finally became Italy's youngest prime minister. -
Treaty of Versailles
All war guilt blamed on Germany
Former German Empire handed over to form the new states (Weimar Republic)
Hitler spy on DAP -
National Socialist DAP
Usurping of the Swastika
Party member grows -
Hitler takes Control
Hitler threatens to leave. Party member elects him as chairman.
Several Thousand Members in NAZI -
March on Rome
Fascist Party ascending to power -
Economy Crash + Ruhr Occupied
The economies crash and France occupy Ruhr. They ship out supplies. -
Hitler in Jail - Writes Book
He gets out of Jail.
Makes a more stable currency. -
The Great Depression
Economic turmoil. The U.S. stock market crashed and triggered a worldwide economic depression. -
Reichstag Election
Nazi gets 18% of the votes -
Japanese Expansion
Japanese began to expand in East Asia with the invasion of Manchuria. -
Hitler runs for President
Hitler gets 35% of the presidential election vote
Two parliaments - no coalition -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor
Appointed Chancellor by Paul von Hindenburg -
Reichstag Fire
Blame is placed on a communist revolution
Reichstag Fire Degree - suspends civil liberties -
Election
Hugely in the Nazi's favour
44% of the vote - Can now form a government
Enabling Act - legislative powers to Hitler -
Nazi only Legal Party
New political parties are forbidden -
Rearm the Military
They publicly state their intention and ignore the treaty of Versailles -
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Policy of Appeasement
Other countries let Germany ignore the Treaty of Versailles as to not make them angry -
Hitler occupies the Rhineland
Ignores treaty and occupies what he previously agreed not to -
Hitler unifies Austria and Germany
A bloodless takeover of Austria
Anschluss
Completely ignores the Treaty of Versailles -
Munich Agreement
Allowing Germany to take over Sudetenland -
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Bohemia and Moravia go to Germany -
Poland Invasion
Beginning of World War II -
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Dunkirk
Trapped British army evacuates Dunkirk to England. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped a bomb over Hiroshima, killing an estimated 80 000 people. -
End of World War II
After Japan formally surrenders, World War II finally ends.