Pre World War II - 1945

By drewwhitmoyer

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Start of Second Sino-Japanese War
  • Period: to

    Pre War - Post War

  • Hitler is Appointed Chancellor of Germany

  • Gestapo is established in Germany to maintain "order"

  • Germany leaves the League of Nations

  • Hitler recieves Fuhrer of Germany title

  • Germany starts militarizing the Rhineland

  • Axis Alliance is formed, Italy, Japan, Germany

  • The Hitler Youth expands to 5 Million

  • Nazi Germany annexes Austria

  • Germany annexes Sudetneland borders

  • Nazi Germny captures Czechoslovakia

  • WWII begins with the invasion on Poland

  • Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of UK

  • US enables the Lend-Lease Policy

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Roosevelt and Churchill create the Atlantic Charter

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, US declares war on Japan

  • Hitler declares war on the US

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins

  • Mao Zedong named Chairman of Communist (china)

  • Allies take foothold of Europe with D-Day attacks

  • Germany strikes back with the Battle of the Bulge

  • President Roosevelt dies

  • WWII in Europe ends with Germany surrendering

  • First Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Second Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders to the United States

  • Nuremberg Trials begin in Germany