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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the nazi party
following world war 1 Adolf Hitler rose to power becuse germany was in financial stress. -
Benito Mussolini appointed prime minster of italy
makes a pact with Hilter and he becomes a fascistic leader. -
Josef Stalin sole dicator (USSR)
Stalin increased scope and power to the secrat police and intelligence. -
Jap'ns army seizes manchuria, china
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Hitler is named chancellor of germany
he gains more power over the germanys. -
neutralitty act
embargo impossed on trading arms and war materials. -
italian army invades ethiopia in africa
the secound italo-ethiopian was also refferd to as the secound italo abyssinian war. -
miltarist take control of japanese goverment
various army factions contend for power amid increasing suppersion of disent and more assasinations. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of germany in violation versailes tready
made it possbile for the germany to pusere a policey of aggresion
in eastern germany thstt the demillterzed stauts of the Rineland had bloocked of untill then. -
japns army nanjing , china ; massacre a quarter of million people
the naking masscare, also know as the rapoe of nanking was an episode during the secound sino-japanse war of mass murder and rape by japanese janjing , the captal of the rubulic of china. -
nazis begin rounding up jews for labor camps
March 1938, Hitler expanded the borders of the Nazi Reich by forcibly annexing Austria. A brutal crackdown immediately began on Austria's Jews. They also lost everything and were even forced to perform public acts of humiliation such as scrubbing sidewalks clean amid jeering pro-Nazi crowds. -
munich pact signed giving the sudentland of czechoslovakia to germny
the munich aggerment was settement per mitting nazi germanys annexation of portions of czchoslovakia along counrtys bordes mainly inhabited by german speakers -
nazi-soviet pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
broke out in europenemies nazi germany and the soviet union suprised the world by siging the german- solviet nonaggresion pact -
nazis invade poland; britain and france declare war on germany
The morning after the Gleiwitz incident, German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west. As the Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east. After the mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained an undisputed advantage. -
nazia invade demark, norway, the metherlands, luxembourg and belglum- take control
nazis invade denmark , norway, and the nerthlands. -
germany invades france and force it to surrender
defeating primaily french forces. the battle cunsisted of two main operations. (CHASE YELLOW) and( BEF) -
first time peacetime draft in us
this selesctive serive act required that men bewtween the ages 21 And 35 most register with local draft boards. -
battke of britain
the battle of britain was the frist major campagin to be fought by air forces . and also the largest and nmost sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
japanese ivade french indochina
the viet minh, a communist army led by ho chi minha, begain a revolt against the japanese -
Hitler breaks pact with stallns russia and ivades- ussr
and less then two years after that, Hitler scrapped his pact with stalin and sent some 3 million nazi soldiers pouring into the soviet union. -
churchil and fdr issue the atlantic charter
the atlantic charter was pivotal pollicy staement issued agust 14 , early in the world war 2 , defind the allied goals for the post-wr world it was diarted by the leaders of united kingdom and the untied sates -
pearl harbor in hawaii attacked by japanese naval and air forces,
The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
germany and itlay declare war
germany and itlay declear war on dec. 9 1941 -
japanese americans interned in iolated camps
executive order, which allowed regional military commanders to designate military areas from which any or all persons may be excluded -
philippines fall to japanese- batanna death march
was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. All told, approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnell.The reported death tolls vary, especially amongst Filipino POWs, because historians cannot determine how many prisoners blended in with the civi population. -
battle of midway, turing point of war in the pacific
only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable.Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning. -
russians stopnazi advance at stalingrad save moscow
was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union. -
zoot suits riots.
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city, and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. -
british and us forces defeat german and italian armies in north africa
The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century. The Allied war effort was dominated by the British Commonwealth and exiles from German-occupied Europe. -
italy surrenders, mussolini dissed as prime min.
It was signed at a conference of generals from both sides in an Allied military camp at Cassibile in Sicily, which had recently been occupied by the Allies. The armistice presented a total capitulation of Italy and was approved by both King Victor Emanuel III and Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio. -
D-Day
invasion of France at Normady By Allies -
paris retaken by aliies forces
The liberation began when the French Forces of the Interion the military structure of the French Resistance staged an uprising against the German garrison upon the approach of the US Third Army. -
Paris
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batltle of bulge
. Eric von Manstein planned the offensive with the primary goal to recapture the important harbor of Antwerp. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the western front which Germany was largely unable to replace. -
harry s. truman becomes persident
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v-e day , war ends in europe
to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
first atomic bombs dropped
the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. -
V-J DAY ,
is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
us forces return to recapture the philippines
swas the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, during World War II. -
war crimes trials.
to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of war crimes. "Class A" crimes were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war, and were brought against those in the highest decision-making bodies;
