World War 2 Era

By Austin24Cleary

  • Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the nazi party.

  • Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

  • Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • Neutrality Act passed by US Congress

  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

  • Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty

  • Japan’s army pillages Nanjing,

    china massacre a quarter of a million people.

  • Munich Pact signed

    giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed

    by Hitler and Stalin

  • Nazis invade Poland

    Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Nazis invade Denmark

    Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control

  • Battle of Britain

    Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force

  • Battle of Britain

    Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

  • -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans

    Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades

  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

  • Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

  • US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9

    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

    – Bataan Death March

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

  • Battle of Midway

    turning point of war in the Pacific

  • British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

  • - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

  • Zoot Suit Riots

    – Los Angeles, CA

  • D-Day invasion

    of France at Normandy by Allies

  • Paris retaken by Allies Forces

  • Battle of the Bulge

    – last offensive of German Forces

  • US forces return to recapture the Philippines

  • FDR dies,

    Harry S. Truman becomes President

  • V-E Day

    war ends in Europe