Cause Of WW2 - AshleyArndt

By ashleya15
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    Fascist Party rises to power in Italy

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    Nazi party rises to power in Germany

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    Japan, lacking land and natural resources, becomes land hungry and looks to establish an empire

  • Hitler tries to overthrow the German government but fails and is put in prison

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    Japan's economy worsens as a result of the Great Depression

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    America passes a series of Nuetrality Acts saying that the U.S would withhold weapons and loans from all nations at war

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    Japan's military takes over government

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    Japan's army seizes Manchuria ( northern China )

  • Nazi Party is the largest political party in Germanys Reichstag and Hitler becomes head of te German state

  • Mussolini and Italy invade Ethiopia

  • Hitler signs andalliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers

  • German troops invade the Rhineland

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    FDR moves American Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor

  • Hitler annexes Austria

  • Hitler demands the Sudetenland; Britan and France agree in the Munich Conference

  • Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia

  • Britain and France pledge support to Poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany

  • Hitler invades Poland - Blitzkrieg

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

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    Japan controls most of eastern China

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    America First Committee forms to fight for American isolation

  • Sitzkrieg ends - Germany attcks Denmark and Norway

  • Germany launches blitzkrieg on Belgum

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    German troops enter Paris and France surrenders

  • Japan allies with Germany and Italy - Triparte Act

  • Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nations history - Selective Service Act

  • Roosevelt is reelected for a third term

  • German begins bombing England/ Battle of Britain

  • Lend Lease Act

  • Japan signs nuetrality pact with Soviet Union

  • Japanese forces occupy Indochina; U.S freezes Japans American assets and cuts off trade

  • Japanese fleet begins moving toward Southeast Asia; U.S demands that Japan withdraw from the tripartite pact

  • German raids on England end

  • American military base, Pearl Harbor, is attacked by Japanese warplanes

  • United States declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the United States