Important dates- WW1 & 2

June 24, 1918

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler appointed Reich Chancellor by German government

Feb 27, 1933

Reichstag building burns

1926

Emperor Hirohito takes the throne

1922

fascism rises to power in Italy

Tôjô Hideki gains power, becomes Prime Minister

late 1930’s, 1941

Balkan Wars

1912-1913

Bosnian Crises

1908

Official WW2 end

Sept 2, 1945

VE Day

May 8, 1945

D-Day

June 6, 1944

Hiroshima

August 6, 1945

Nagasaki

August 9, 1945

August 2, 1934

Hitler appoints himself Führer of Germany

Sept. 1 1939

German invasion of Poland

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

August 1939

German-Soviet Nonaggression pact signed

1925

Mussolini becomes dictator (Il Duce)

1935

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

National Socialist German Worker’s Party gains power

1929

1939

Pact of Steel

German annexation of Austria

1938

German annexation of Czechoslovakia

1939

Rome-German axis signed

August 2, 1936

Anti-Comintern pact signed

Nov. 25, 1936

Tripartite pact signed

Sept. 27, 1940

WW2 ends

Sept. 3, 1945

1952

ratification of the Treaty of San Francisco