World War II- Important dates, people and places

• WWI finishes

  11 November 1918
• Treaty of Versailles

  28th June 1919 - Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, George Clemenceau
• German Reparation Payments


  Defaulted on December 1922 (loss of Saar and Posen)
• French invasion of the Ruhr


  January 1923
• German Hyperinflation


  1923 - money was created to pay Ruhr workers for striking.
• Tiny Nazi Party attempt to overthrow the govt.

  November 1923 - Hitler and his party, Munich Push
• Wall Street Crash

  29th October 1929
• Great Depression


  1929 onwards - Germany worst hit
• Nazi party receives 2.4% of votes


  1928
• Nazi party receives 37.5% of votes


  1932
• Communists take Russia


  1917
• Japan invades Manchuria


  September 1931
• Japan invades China

  1937
• Hitler becomes Chancellor

  30th January 1933
• Third Reich (Nazism)


  1933 - 1945 - Hitler's new government
• Enabling Act

  1933 - Made Hitler a dictator (essentially)
• President Hindenburg dies


  1st August 1934
• Hitler takes totalitarian power

  2nd August 1934
• Reichstag Fire

  27th February 1933 - Young Dutch Communist, Weimar
• German Re-armament


  1933 - 1938
• Hitler introduces conscription


  1935
• Hitler takes control of the Saar

  1935
• Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

  March 1936 - Britain and France's last chance to stop a war
• Anschluss


  March 1938 - unification of Austria and Germany
• Sudetenland


  October 1938 - Hitler invades part of Czechoslovakia
• Munich Agreement


  September 30 1938 - Agreement with Germany, France, Britain and Fascist Italy about Sudetenland - Hitler breaks it
• Hitler Invades Czechoslovakia

  March 1939
• Nazi-soviet pact

  28th August 1939 - Hitler and Stalin sign a non-aggression pact
• Invasion of Poland


  1st September 1939
• Outbreak of WWII


  3rd September 1939
• Hitler invades Denmark and Norway


  April 1940
• Invades Netherlands, Belgium and France


  May 1940
• Magneto Line - INCORRECT SPELLING


  Constructed in 1930s - Border of France and Germany
• Battle of Britain


  July - October 1940 - Air battle fought above Britain, RAF vs Luftwaffe
• Blitz


  October 1940 - May 1941 - Constant bombing of London
• Operation Barbarossa

  Starts 22 June 1941
• Russian Counterattack to Barabrossa

  December 6th 1941
• Japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbour

  7th December 1941
• Japanese Invasion of Singapore

  February 1942