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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
Hitler was an extreme nationalist who became leader of a small group called National Socialist, or Nazi party. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Mussolini Promised to restore order through strong leadership. With his followers he threatened to overthrow the government. In response Mussolini became prime minister. He turned Italy into the first Fascist state. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union
Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state. He took brutal measures to control Industry and agriculture. -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
Without the approval from its government Japanese army seized Manchuria. -
Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
Hitler was an extreme nationalist who in 1921 became the leader of a small group called National Socialist. Hitler fet the German population lies that they wanted to hear. He blamed the loss of ww1 on others. This won the support of Germans. Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933. -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
It was the first of many laws designed to keep the U.S. at peace. It forbade any assistance to any nation in war. -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
Mussolini's army invaded Ethiopia and without the help of the league of Nations Ethiopia fell. -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
The great depression undermined faith in democratic rule. Military took control and preached racism. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
In May 1935 France signed a treaty of friendship and mutual support with the USSR. Germany claimed the treaty was hostile to them and Hitler used this as an excuse to send German troops into the Rhineland in March 1936, contrary to the terms of the treaties of Versailles and Locarno. -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
civilians on the streets of subjugated cities for enforced deportation. The civilians were captured in groups of unsuspecting passers-by, or kidnapped from selected city quarters that had been surrounded by German forces ahead of time.[1] -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact or the German–Soviet Non-aggression Pact officially Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
On this day in 1939, in response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany. -
Nazi invasion.
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium -
Battle of Britain begins
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 during the Second World War. -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, Pub.L. 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, was the first peacetime conscription in United States history. -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades
Russia had a deal with Germany but Germany broke it. This pulled England and France into the battle. -
Japanese invade French Indochina
In September 1940, the Japanese invaded Vichy French Indochina to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina -
pearl harbor
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US -
Philippines fall to Japanese
After pearl harbor the japanese attacked the philippines. The battle ended in an American loss. This lead to the Bataan Death March. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
Germany attacked Russia but was stopped with the help of the Russian winter. -
Battle of Midway
A battle between the U.S. and the Japanese. It was a all air attack. Both sides sent warplanes to bomb each other's ships. -
British and U.S. Vs Germany and Italy
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa -
Zoot Suit Riots
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racist attacks in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, between Mexican American youths and European American -
Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister
Italy is defeated and as a result Mussolini is relieved of prime minister. -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France. -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
The allied forces fought and retook Paris. -
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
After japanese took the Philippines the us took it back. -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
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 of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
War Crimes Trials
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
