The Timeline of World War II

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

    His Nazi Party, or the Third Reich, takes power and Hitler is essentially the dictator of Germany.
  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy are allied

    Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty
  • Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan are allied

    Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. This was a pact against communism and Russia.
  • The Second Sino-Japanese War starts

    Imperial Japan invades the Republic of China and initiates the Second Sino-Japanese War.