World War II Facts
1922
30, 000 Fascists marched on Rome
The U.S. imprisoned how many?
31,000
Axis Commanders
Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
Kellog-Briand Pact
Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another. Japan signed
How did the war with Japan end?
Americans dropped 2 bombs and killed 110, 000, which led to the surrender in 1945.
September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945
Duration of World War II
1919
Fascist party founded by Mussolini
1939
Francisco Franco became Spain´s Dictator
1936
Francisco Franco led revolt in Spain
1939
Germany invades Polish airspace.
1936
Germanyś unemployment dropped 4.5 million
1935
Hitler announces that Germany would not obey the Treaty of Versailles
1938
Hitler demands Sudetenland, historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.
1920
Hitler joins Nazi party
1922
Japan signed an international treaty agreeing to respect China´s border
1937
Japan takes Nanjing
1936
Japan, Germany and Italy became the Axis Powers
1931
Japanese army seized Manchuria
1930
Japanese government blamed for Great Depression
1937
Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)
1938
Jewish people attacked and robbed
1933
Jewish rights limited
Commanders of the Allies
Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek, Charles De Gualle
Hitler invades the Soviet Union on...
June, 1941
1934
Many of Hitler´s enemies killed
1938
Munich Conference
Reasons WW2 started
Some scholars debate whether it was really one event that started WW2. Japan seizing Manchuria from China, Italyś invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, Hitlerś re-militerization of the Rhineland in 1936, the Spanish Civl War from 1936 to 1939 and German Occupation of Checkoslavakia in 1938 could all be cited as contributing to growing tensions around the world.
America declared war on Japan after what event?
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
Why were the Nazis defeated in Moscow?
The Soviets fought hard, but it was the brutal winter really defeated the Nazis in Moscow.
More outcomes of WW2?
U.S. gains a booming economy.
1930s
powerful nations were split into democratic and totalitarian
Germanyś LuftWaffe
the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II. This Airforce starts bombing Great Britain. Britain´s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill declares ¨We shall never surrender.¨
Adolph HItler committed suicide before...
the ally powers could capture him on May 7, 1945.
U.S. drops how may bombs on Japan?
2 bombs
How did the Americans react to the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Americans were shocked, even though relations were tense for years between Japan and the U.S.
1919
Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI- Paris Peace Converence
More reasons WW2 started
Due to fatigue and fear of another War so soon after WW1, Great Britain and France repeatedly appeased Hitlerś aggresive moves in Europe. However, on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland (the Blitzkrieg or Lightning War) leading Great Britain and France to declare war on Hitlerś Nazi state.
Locations for WWII
Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean and Northern Africa
1933
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1924
Hitler leaves prison and revived the Nazi party
1937
Hitler planned to absorb Austria and Czechoslavakia into the Third Reich
Key Points
Hitler sweeps through Belgium on his way to France. France falls in June of 1940
1939
Hitler wanted to have the Polish Corridor be returned to him
1923
Hitler was jailed 5 years
1920s
Japan fell under military rule
1933
Japan leaves the League of Nations
1939
Non-Aggression Pact signed by Axis powers
Even more reasons WW2 started...
Meanwhile, the U.S. maintained an isolationist policy, passing 3 separate Neutrality Acts
1919
Miklos Hortho the first European dictator in Hungary
1935
Mussolini ordered an invasion on ethiopia
1932
Nazi party becomes leading party
1923
Nazi party tried seizing power in Munich
1935
Neutrality Acts to ban sales of arms to nations at war
When did Japan surrender?
September 2, 1945
Who had tense relations over control of the Pacific for years?
U.S. and Japan
What were some outcomes of WW2?
U.S. and Russia became global super powers (Cold War)
Robert Oppenheimer
United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)
