Causes of WWII Josie

By msdederich
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    Fascist Party rises to power in Italy

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    Nazi party rises to power Germany

  • japan lacking and natural resources, become land-hungry and looks to establish an empire

  • japan lacking and natural resources, become land-hungry and looks to establish an empire

  • Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • Hitler tries to overtrow Germany goverment, but fails and is imprisoned

  • japan's economy worsens as a result of the great depression

  • Japan's army seizes Manchuria (norther China)

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    Japan's military takes over goverment

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    Naiz party is the largest political party in Germany's Reichstag & Hitler becomes head of the German state

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    Mussolini & Italy invaded Ethiopia

  • Hitler signs and alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Power

  • German troops invade the Rhineland

  • FDR moves American Pacific fleet from San Diego

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    Hitler annexes Austria

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    Hitler deands the Sudetenland: Britain and France agree in the Munich Conference

  • America passes a series of Neutrality Act saying that the US would withhold weapons & loans from all nations at war

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    Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler invades Poland - Blitzkrieg

  • France & Great Britain declares war on Germany

  • Japan controls most of easter China

  • American First Committee forms ti fight for American isolatioism

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    Lemd - Lease Act

  • Germany lauches blitzkrieg on Belgium

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    German troops enter Paris & France surrenders

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    Japan allies with Germany & Italy - nTripartite Pact

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    Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nation's history- Selective Service Act

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    Roosevelt is reelected to a third term

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    German begins bombing England / Battle of Britain

  • Japanese forces occupy Indochina; U.S freezes Japan's American assets & cuts off trade

  • japan signs neutrality pact with soviet union

  • japanese fleet begins moving toward southeast Asia; US demands the japan withdraw from Tripartite Pact

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    German raids on england end

  • American militsry base, Pearl Harbor, is attacked by Japanese

  • United States declared war on Japan

  • Germany & Italy declare war on the united states