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Hitler becomes Leader
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party -
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini is pointed to Prime Minister of Italy -
Josef Stalin
Josef Stalin sole dictator of Soviet Union -
Japans Army
Japans Army seizes Manchuria, China -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany -
Nuetrality
The neutrality act is passed by US congress -
ItalianArmy
The Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa -
Militarist
Militarist take control of the Japanese government -
Hitler Sends Troops
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty -
Japan Pillages
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people -
Munich Pact
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany -
The Nazis Begin
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin -
Invading Poland
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany -
Nazis invade more countries
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control -
Battle of Britain begins
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
Invading France
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender -
Draft
First time Peacetime Draft in US -
Hitler breaks pact
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades, USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans -
Atlantic Charter
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter -
Japanese invade
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan -
Phillipines
Philippines fall to Japanese, Bataan Death March -
Isolation
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps -
Stalingrad
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific -
North Africa
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa -
Zoot suit riots
Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racist attacks -
Italy
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min -
D-Day
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies