History By potvinkyl51 Jan 30, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the nazi party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpJjuotD534 Oct 30, 1922 1922 Benito mussolini appointed prime of minister of italy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXbbOTjKcfM Oct 1, 1929 1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the soviet union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fqjxeFeLuY Sep 18, 1931 1931 Japanese army seizes manchuria china https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI7voyZiOJg Mar 21, 1933 Hitler is needed chancellor of germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8bNLD4QWw Mar 7, 1936 1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7b7ufh9tQ Dec 13, 1937 1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCEeC4f6ts Mar 13, 1938 1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuc18xISwI Sep 30, 1938 1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7b7ufh9tQ&t=8s Aug 29, 1939 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDf4Cqmk_s Sep 1, 1939 1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkxbSAcFgEY May 10, 1940 1940 May 10 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVEy1tC7nk Jul 10, 1940 1940 July 10 Battle of Britain begins – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n-0P7fGMJQ Jul 14, 1940 1940 July 14 - 22 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFBbJ0c_zzg Sep 16, 1940 1940 Sept 16 - First time Peacetime Draft in US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsGxjYtjP7I Aug 12, 1941 1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_sGTspaF4Y Aug 14, 1941 1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou3kqYQ6Los Aug 31, 1941 1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3bqQI7-sCg Dec 7, 1941 1941, Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan,Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1kixqRwvK0 Apr 9, 1942 1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cfk1ISOEM4 Jun 4, 1942 1942, June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UZHSg-rGRs Jun 22, 1942 1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrEZMYQ5IA0 Dec 7, 1942 1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6gSShuQCUE Oct 21, 1943 1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJ08BTRrro
