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1 Jan 1912
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The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the founding and ruling political party of the Russian Soviet Federation Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, commonly referred to as the Soviet Union). The party was constitutionally recognized as the leading and guiding force of Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system and public organizations. It lost its legal right to rule the Soviet Union as a one-party state in 1990, and was dissolved in August 1991.
11 Nov 1918
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By the end of autumn 1918, the alliance of the Central Powers was unraveling in its war effort against the better supplied and coordinated Allied powers. Facing exhausted resources on the battlefield, turmoil on the home front and the surrender of its weaker allies, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, Germany was finally forced to seek an armistice with the Allies in the early days of November 1918. On November 7, the German chancellor, Prince Max von Baden, sent delegates to Compiegne, France, to negotiate the agreement; it was signed at 5:10 a.m. on the morning of November 11.
1922
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Essentially a coup. The Fascist Party had some seats in Italy's parliament, but not enough to control the government. The Socialists had more seats. This didn't sit well with Mussolini, and he gathered his followers, dressed in black shirts, and threatened to march on Rome if he wasn't given control of the government. At first the government ignored him, and then he marched on Rome and forced the King to name him the leader of the government. All of this was done with little opposition as many in Italy actually turned to back Mussolini's coup.
Once in power, Mussolini outlawed any left wing parties and began building his own dictatorship. His coup would inspire Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, which failed.
21 Jan 1924
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Joseph Stalin came to power after the death of Lenin in 1924. He was not a favored to take over, but he schemed his way by using his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party to gain favor and disqualify his opponents. He played one side of the Politburo against the other and even gave Lenin’s favored heir the wrong date for Lenin’s funeral causing him to lose face by failing to attend it.
18 Jul 1925
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Semi-autobiography and political philosophy.Mein Kampf was a book that was based on Adolf Hitler's beliefs and his goals for Germany. He stated that non-Aryan "races", such as Jews, Slavs, and Gypsies were inferior. He also said the Versailles treaty was an outrage and vowed to regain German lands. The meaning of Mein Kampf is My Struggle. The book mein kampf was very famous lots of people brought it and some got it for free.
1930 - 1933
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Hitler gained power the legitimate way - he sought the public's support by promising them its former glory and much needed aid (money and food.) And he delivered on his promises.
19 Sep 1931
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The Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931 in hopes of gaining more natural resources to support their massive expansion and militarization. They no longer wanted to rely heavily on the U.S for resources and decided Manchuria was ideal for a Japanese expansion since it was already fighting a civil war between nationalists, communists and warlords.
1935 - 1969
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This was a series of defensive forts and gun bunkers, built by the French to protect their border. The line ran for more than 300 miles, and it was supposed to be unbeatable by an attacking force, due to the huge amount of men and guns that were placed in it. The Maginot line was defeated by the German army, in 1940 by a simple tactic, they simply outflanked out it by invading Belgium first then preceding down south from Belgium to head into France, effectively completely skipping the Maginot Line. Unfortunately for the French, the Maginot line was designed with once purpose in mind, to defend France from a German invasion, and a German invasion only, therefore the forts and weapons permanently faced Germany, looking out into the Rhine, it couldn't be turned around, and once German forces outflanked it, they began an offensive from it's behind, and completely annihilating the defences. Not much of the line remains today, simply because Germany had busted it to pieces after they had captured France, so that material support could be easily transported without having to go around it.
1936
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In September of 1940, Mussolini ordered the invasion Egypt from Libya, it's African colony. When the British forces there fended off the Italians, Hitler sent Erwin Romme down to North Africa to aid the Italians.
7 Mar 1936
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Under the Treaty of Versailles the land along the Rhine was to be demilitarized. January of 1936 Hitler decided to re occupy the Rhineland. March 7, 1936 German military forces moved into the Rhineland. This forces consisted of only a few infantry battalions and a artillery battery. If the French moved in to stop the occupation the Germans had orders to retreat.
18 Jul 1936 - 1 Apr 1939
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The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of the Second Spanish Republic. The Civil War devastated Spain from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, ending with the victory of the rebels and the founding of a dictatorship led by the Nationalist General Francisco Franco.
1937 - 1939
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The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1937 and 1939. His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense debate for seventy years among academics, politicians and diplomats. The historians' assessments have ranged from condemnation for allowing Adolf Hitler's Germany to grow too strong, to the judgment that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests. At the time, these concessions were widely seen as positive, and the Munich Pact concluded on 30 September 1938 among Germany, Britain, France and Italy prompted Chamberlain to announce that he had secured "peace for our time".
13 Dec 1937
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The Rape of Nanking refers to an attack by the Empire of Japan on the people of Nanking, China in 1937. The Japanese military killed 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians in December 1937 and January 1938.
12 Mar 1938
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He didn't invade Austria - it was more of a military coup in Vienna, which led to unifying Austria with other German states within the Third Reich.
Austria was a part of the Reich, not occupied. That's why (until a Soviet-Western compromise in 1955) Austria and Vienna were divided into 4 Allied occupation zones after the war, just like Germany and Berlin.
30 Sep 1938
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The Munich Agreement---a four-part deal between Germany, France, Italy and Britain---gave Germany the rights to the Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland in exchange for Adolf Hitler's promise to not invade any other European lands.
15 Mar 1939
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When Hitler invaded Poland and other countries in 1939 and 1940 he violated the Munich Agreement.
23 Aug 1939
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It was an agreement between Hitler and Stalin that said there would be peace between Russia and Germany. Hitler wanted to conquer Poland, which was one major part of the agreement. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was signed in August 1939. Hitler's main reason for the Non-Aggression Pact was so that when Britain declared war on Germany after he invaded Poland, Russia stayed out of the way. He only had to fight Britain, and France (so far) instead of Britain, France, and Russia. About two years after the pact was signed, Hitler broke the terms of the pact, and attacked the Soviet Union.
1 Sep 1939
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The war is generally accepted to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany and Slovakia, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth.
4 Nov 1939
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Early in 1939, after Nazi Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia, Roosevelt lobbied Congress to have the cash-and-carry provision renewed. He was rebuffed, the provision lapsed, and the mandatory arms embargo remained in place.
In September 1939, after Germany had invaded Poland, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Roosevelt invoked the provisions of the Neutrality Act but came before Congress and lamented that the Neutrality Acts may give passive aid to an aggressor.
He prevailed over the isolationists, and on November 4 the Neutrality Act of 1939 was passed, allowing for arms trade with belligerent nations (Great Britain and France) on a cash-and-carry basis, thus in effect ending the arms embargo. Furthermore, the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 were repealed, American citizens and ships were barred from entering war zones designated by the President, and the National Munitions Control Board (which had been created by the 1935 Neutrality Act) was charged with issuing licenses for all arms imports and exports. Arms trade without a license became a federal crime,with a penalty of up to two years in prison.
10 May 1940 - 22 Jun 1940
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The French people were confused and scared. The German blitzkrieg (a fast moving army that quickly overwhelms its enemy) was overtaking the French army. As the Germans swept through France, they left a path of blood, death, and destruction.
The German troops captured the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940. The world was shocked at this because Germany had defeated the most powerful armies world in only 9 days. The French government left the city in fear. The leader of the French government, Paul Reynaud, wanted to continue to fight the Germans. Unfortunately, his cabinet and generals thought the battle was over. Reynaud resigned, and a new French government agreed to a truce with Germany on June 22, only 12 days after the fighting started.
The alliance let Germany occupy the northern 2/3 of France, while the south was still left in the control of the new French government. The city of Vichy became the capital of unoccupied France. The head of the new French government, Marshal Henri Petain, was very cooperative with the Germans. From now on the French would have to get used to living the German way with Hitler in charge.
27 May 1940
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Mostly British and French (Allied) forces were being pushed back by the Nazis as the Germans captured Paris and France fell. At Dunkirk (in France), along the English Channel, the British and French saved their troops from inevitable death and defeat and got them across the Channel to Britain from May - June 1940.
It was one of the greatest defeats for the Allies. France fell to the Germans, the regime of Vichy France established, and the Battle of Britain, the defense of the British nation, soon began.
10 Jul 1940
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The Battle of Britain was a German attempt to establish air supremacy over South and Southeast England in order to facilitate an invasion of England by the German army in 1940.Air supremacy was necessary so that Royal Navy warships would be unable to interfere with the landings.
The cause of the accidental bombing of London was a malfunction in the German directional navigation system that alerted German bomber crews when they were over their intended target, and therefore when to release their bombs, during night missions.
11 Mar 1941
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Lend-Lease was a program of military and economic aid given by the United States to nations warring against the Axis powers in World War II. Despite the proclaimed neutrality of the U.S., Congress by the Lend-Lease Act of 1941 empowered President Franklin D. Roosevelt on behalf “of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, to sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article” not expressly prohibited. The law originally authorized an appropriation of $1 million. The Office of Lend-Lease Administration, established in October 1941 to administer the act, was incorporated into the Foreign Economic Agency; in 1943 the office was transferred to the Department of State.
21 Jun 1941
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Hitler never trusted "communists". Communists were seen as Internationalists. He saw slavs as "untermenschen" being ruled by Jews, or "Jewish Bolsheviks". Hitler was a nationalist. Both had eyes on territories on their borders. "Lebensraum". He wanted to exploit their Oil. (Baku Oilfields) and agriculture; He also wanted Slave labor to free up Germans at home and assist in the war effort.
14 Aug 1941
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration issued on Aug. 14, 1941, during World War II, by the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, and Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the still non-belligerent United States, after five days of conferences aboard warships in the North Atlantic.
7 Dec 1941
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Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the U.S. enacted an embargo on all oil supplies to Japan. The reason for the embargo is because Japan was invading China. The U.S. embargo cutoff 90% of Japans resources, which crippled their economy and most importantly military. They didn't specifically want to go to war, they just wanted to cripple the United States so they could bring them to the bargaining table to negotiate expansion into Asia. Unfortunately the Japanese didn't understand the United States way of thinking, which was "You bomb us, you declare war, and we pulverize you." On the Japanese side of the equation, it was simply a misunderstanding about how to negotiate terms with the Americans.
8 Dec 1941
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On December 8, 1941 the United States Congress declared war upon the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. It was formulated an hour after the Infamy Speech presidential address of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Following the declaration, Japan's allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the United States, definitively bringing the United States into World War II.