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Leading up to United States involvement in World War 2

By Bad30c123

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    Angered Germany because it basically blamed them for starting the war.
  • Period: to

    United States involvment in World War 2

  • Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Socialist Party.

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Germans elect Nazi party, now the 2nd largest political party.

  • FDR elected President of the United States of America

    FDR had very anti-war ideas

  • Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany

  • First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg

  • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictational power

  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

  • Germany quits the League of Nations

  • Hitler becomes the Fuhrer

  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription

  • German military mobilizes

  • Kristallnacht

  • Nazi's and Soviet's

  • Britain and Poland sign Mutual Assistance Treaty

  • Nazi Germany invades Poland

  • Beginning of World War 2

    Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • United States declares its neutrality

  • Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • America freezes German and Italian assets in America

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    On the morning of December 7th, 1941, the United States naval base of Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese Kamakazi pilots. This was the last straw for President Harry Truman.

  • Germany declares war on the United States of America

    Germany declares war on the United States of America
    Only 4 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declares war on the United States