-
1921, Jan. 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
-
1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
-
1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
-
1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
-
1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
-
1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
-
1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
-
1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
-
1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
-
1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government
-
1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
-
1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
-
1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
-
1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
-
First time Peacetime Draft in US
-
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
-
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
-
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
-
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
-
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
-
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
-
June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
-
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
-
1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
-
1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
-
1943 July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
-
1944 June 6 - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
-
1944 Aug. - Paris retaken by Allies Forces
-
1944 Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
-
1945 Jan. – US forces return to recapture the Philippines
-
War Crimes Trials