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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945 -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Unipon (USSR)
Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953 -
Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China
On September 18, 1931 Japan launched an attack on Manchuria. Within a few days Japanese armed forces had occupied several strategic points in South Manchuria. -
Neutrality acts passed by US Congress
In the 1930s, the United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
The military was in control because they wanted to bring evey in military based empoire. They thought they could do more than intelligent people. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Aldof Hitler didn't agree to the Treaty he broke the Treaty. He made his army bigger and didnt care about the weapons he was making -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people
The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
The pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation. -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Aldof Hitler made people think that Jews were the proublems for everything. He made peole hate them. He made them work and he killed them this was called the Holocaust -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
Hitler's forces were on their way to Norway, and on the 9th of April his paratroops landed at six of Norway's ports, between Oslo and Narvik. And that same day the Germans moved to take control of the land directly between it and Norway: Denmark. On the first day of that invasion the Danish king, Christian X, ordered his troops to cease fire, the king saving lives and the Germans conquering Denmark in one day. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other -
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
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Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
In the Second World War, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces -
Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940 -
1940 First time Peacetime Draft in US
This Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards. Later, when the U.S. entered World War II, all men aged 18 to 45 were made subject to military service, and all men aged 18 to 65 were required to register. -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
He made a deal with Russia which everyone was supprised and they aggred not to attacked each other but he attacked Russia. -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; -
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
In September 1940, the Japanese invaded Vichy French Indochina in order to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway, from the port of Haiphong through Hanoi to Kunming in Yunnan -
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
The attack on Pearl Harbor changed so much. It made the United States to go into war. Lots of people died. The japanneeses were gonna do 3 attacks but did 2 only -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. All told, approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnell -
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy pruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
Is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. The russsians won -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia. -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city, and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. Mexican Americans and European-American military personnel were the main parties in the riots, and some African American and Filipino/Filipino American youths were involved as well -
July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min
The overthrow of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini by the Fascist Grand Council made a more ambitious plan feasible, and the Allies decided to supplement the crossing of the Eighth Army with a seizure of the port of Naples. -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIjmOcp_xhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wg5x5WaZPo
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Paris retaken by Allies Forces
The Germans gamed Paris but Paris was soon returened because they surrendered -
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched. Eric von Manstein planned the offensive with the primary goal to recapture the important harbor of Antwerp. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
The Philippines campaign of 1944–1945, the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, The Japanese Army had overrun all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942. The Liberation of the Philippines commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte on October 20, 1944, and hostilities in a small part -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
Roosevelt died after months of declining health.and Turman became president. Under Truman, the Allies successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day, or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
President Turman was in charge of this. A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9. -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan
Japanese war crimes occurred in many Asian and Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
