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World War 2
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1921 Hitler
1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party -
Mussolini
1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy -
Josef Stalin
1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR -
China
1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China -
Germany
1933 Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany -
Africa
1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa -
Neutrality Act
1935 Neutrality Act passed by US Congress -
Militarist
1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government -
Hitler
1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty -
People
1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people. -
Jew camps
1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps -
Munich Pact
1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany -
Nazis and Poland
1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany -
Soviet Pact
1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin -
Peacetime
1940 First time Peacetime Draft in US -
Germany and France
1940 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender -
Battle of Britain
1940 Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
Natzis and Denmark
1940 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control -
Japaness
1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) -
Hitler
1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR now joins England in fighting the Germans -
FDR
1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter -
Hawaii
1941 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US -
Bataan Death,isolated camps,Battle of Midway,& Russia
1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
1942 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow -
U.S forces, CA, & Mussolini
1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
1943 July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min. -
D-Day
1944 June - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies -
Paris
1944 Aug. - Paris retaken by Allies Forces -
Battle of the Bulge
1944 Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces -
FDR dies
1945 April 16th - FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President -
V-E day
1945 May 8th - V-E Day, war ends in Europe -
US forces
1945 Jan. – US forces return to recapture the Philippines -
Bombs & V.J Day
1945 Aug. - First Atomic Bombs dropped
1945 Aug. 14th – V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces -
War Crimes
1946 War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.