march 23, 1919 benito mussolini formed the basis for the fascist party oct. 28, 1922 march on rome;...
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March 23, 1919 Benito Mussolini formed the basis for the Fascist Party
Oct. 28, 1922 March on Rome; Mussolini took power in Italy
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1922 Soviet Union formed under V.I. Lenin
1924 Lenin died; Trotsky and Stalin vie for power
1928 Stalin began forced industrialization (Five Year Plan)
1929 Stalin became dictator
1932-1933 Famine created in the Ukraine and other Soviet satellites
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Weimar Republic Social and political
unrest Military occupation
of western regions of Germany
Economic hardships
Freikorps
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Born near Linz, Austria on April 20,1889
Early life Enlisted in the
German army in 1914, and served throughout WW I. Decorated with the Iron Cross.
Remained in the army after the war.
Sent to spy on small German Worker’s Party (DAP)
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1920 Changed name of the party to the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP)
Nov. 8-9, 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler spent 5 months in prison for his role in the putsch.
Mein Kampf
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1925 Restructuring of the NSDAP
SA Legal election. 1929 Great
Depression By 1930 Nazis were
the second largest party in Germany
Jan. 30, 1933 Hitler became chancellor
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Feb. 27, 1933 Reichstag fire
March 23, 1933 Enabling Act
SS Heinrich Himmler
June 30, 1934 Night of the Long Knives
Aug. 2, 1934 Hindenburg died; Hitler in sole power.
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1935 Versailles Treat renounced; Germany began rearmament
March 13, 1936 Rhineland reoccupied
Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
March 1938 Austria annexed
Sept. 28, 1938 Sudetenland
March 1939 Czechoslovakia annexed
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Aug. 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact
Sept.1, 1939 Poland invaded
Sept. 3 Britain and France declared war
Sept. 17 Soviets invaded eastern Poland
Sept. 27 Poland surrendered
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Sept. 1939- April 1940 Phony War
April 1940 Wehrmacht invaded Denmark and Norway
May 1940 Belgium and the Netherlands invaded
May 10 France invaded through the Ardennes Forest
May 26 OPN DYNAMO
June 22 France surrendered
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Began July 10, 1940 after Churchill declined to negotiate peace
First battle fought entirely in the air
Luftwaffe 2800 planes Royal Air Force 700
Radar and command and control stations
Sept. 7 Beginning of the Blitz.
Oct. Luftwaffe switched to night bombing.
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Oct. 28, 1940 Italy invaded Greece
April 1940 British troops arrive in Greece
April 1941 Yugoslavia and Greece overrun by Wehrmacht
May 20-June 1 Battle of Crete
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116 divisions (14 motorized), 19 panzer divisions, 9 support divisions
Set for April, but postponed until June due to Greek and Yugoslav operations
June 22 Invasion 2000 Soviet planes
destroyed in 1 week Siege of Leningrad
Sept. 1941-Jan. 1944
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Georgy Zhukov appointed head of the Red Army
Oct. 19 Moscow declared under siege
Russian winter Dec. 5 Russian
counteroffensive Germans driven 40
miles from Moscow
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July 28, 1937 Japan invaded China
US declared an embargo on Japanese war material
Sept. 27, 1940 Japan joins the Axis powers
Yamato and Musashi
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Pearl Harbor attacked by aircraft from 4 carriers
Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia, California sunk
18 damaged ships total, 188 aircraft, 3581 US service personnel and civilians killed
Japanese losses totaled 50 men and 30 aircraft
US declared war on Dec. 8; Dec. 11 Germany and Italy declared war on US
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The Philippeans fell to the Japanese on May 6,1942
Bataan Death March April 18 Doolittle Raid May 2-7 Battle of the
Coral Sea June 4-6 Battle of
Midway Aug. 7- Feb. 7, 1943
Battle of Guadalcanal
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Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel
Aug. 13 Bernard Montgomery
Oct. 23- Nov. 5, 1942
Nov. 8, 1942 OPN TORCH
May 7, 1943 Germans defeated in Africa
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Spring 1942 German Sixth Army began a drive to Stalingrad
Aug. 19 First attacks on Stalingrad
Fierce house to house fighting
Nov. 19 Russian counteroffensive encircles German Sixth Army
Hitler orders Sixth Army to hold its ground
Dec. 23 relief attempt ends in failure
Feb. 3, 1943 Von Paulus surrendered
Germans resurgent July 5-23, 1943
Battle of Kursk
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July 9- Aug. 7, 1943 OPN HUSKY
Sept. 3, 1943 Italy surrendered
Winter 1943- May 11, 1944 Battles for Monte Cassino
Jan. 22, 1944 Anzio June 4, 1944 Rome
captured
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June 6 D-Day July 3 OPN Cobra July 20 Bomb Plot Aug. 19-25 Battle
for Paris Sept. 17-25 OPN
MARKET-GARDEN Dec. 16-Jan. 25,
1945 Battle of the Bulge
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June 15 Saipan June 19-20 Battle of
the Philippean Sea “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”
July-Sept. Guam and Peleliu fell to US
Oct. 23-26 Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Jan-April Russians push into eastern Europe
Feb. 4-11 Yalta Conference
March-April US and British forces cross the Rhine into Germany
April 22 Russians reach Berlin
April 25 US and Russian troops meet at Torgau
April 30 Hitler committed suicide
May 2 Berlin surrendered as did Germans in Italy
May 7-8 VE Day
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Jan. 9 US troops land in the Philippeans
Feb. 19-Mar. 26 Battle of Iwo Jima
April 1-June 23 Battle of Okinawa
Aug. 6 Hiroshima Aug. 9 Nagasaki Sept. 2 VJ Day
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1935 Nuremburg Laws Nov. 9, 1938 Kristallnacht 1940-1945 Ghettos and mass
deportations to eastern Europe 1941-1943 Einsatzgruppen Jan 20, 1942 Wannsee Conference 1942-1945 Concentration Camps Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka,
Dachau, Bergen-Belsen Nov. 14, 1945-Oct. 1, 1946 Nuremburg
Trials
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Allies 14,000,000 military
deaths 36,000,000 civilian
deaths 6,000,000 Jews
murdered by Nazis
Axis 8,000,000 military
deaths 4,000,000 civilian
deaths 72,000,000 total
deaths for all of World War II