Events Leading To WWII Timeline

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed

    Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed
  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria
  • Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany
  • Neutrality act of 1935 signed

    Neutrality act of 1935 signed
  • U.S. passes the Selective Service Act

    U.S. passes the Selective Service Act
  • Lend-Lease program enables

    Lend-Lease program enables
  • Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802

    Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802
    Roosevelt didn't need a mass march on his hands with all of the other problems he had at the moment. He decided to issue an order to allow colored people to serve in the armed services in equal capacity to white soldiers.
  • A. Philip Randolph's March

    A. Philip Randolph's March
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
  • Adolf Hitler declares war against the United States

    Adolf Hitler declares war against the United States