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Hitler Becomes Leader of The Nazi Party
Hitler joined the nazi party the year it was founded. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Rose to power as a leading Fascist -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Changed Soviet Union from peasant country to world power. His actions had consequences like dead civilians. -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
Japan occupied south Manchuria on China's east coast -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
The supposed one thousand year Reich had started -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
Prohibited US of arms, ammunition and implements and war -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
To boost Italian national prestige -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
They used intimidation and assassination to achieve their aims -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Germany claimed one of France's treaties were hostile to Germany -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
Committed by Japanese Army against the residents of Nanjing -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
10 days later Hitler signed a pact for war against Czechoslovakia -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
It was a military tactic. They began with Polish Jews -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
Stalin viewed the pact as a way to be on peaceful terms with Germany -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
Germany had been planning this attack since March -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
The German occupation began in April when they invaded Scandinavia -
Battle of Britain begins – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
Combat began with the Luftwaffe mainly -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
The attack began with air raids on Belgium and Holland -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
Also known as the Burke-Wadsworth -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
German-Soviet relationship date back to the end of the first world war -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
Churchill is the British prime minister -
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
They did this order to stop China from importing arms -
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
Pearl Harbor was completely unprepared for a battle -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
45 mile march to prison camps -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
62% of the internees were u.s. citizens -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
Russians changed their tactics in order to succeed -
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
only 6 months after pearl harbor we had gained back momentum -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
North Africa destroyed or neutralized nearly 900,000 German and Italian troops -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
Mexican immigrants faced discrimination across the country causing riots. -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
Majority passed a resolution that dismissed Mussolini -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
Largest operation in History -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
Allies original strategy was to push the Germans to the Rhine -
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
Launched in a densely forest area -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
We arrived at leyte island -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
FDR served four terms -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
Public Holiday of victory in europe -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
President Truman wanted to bring the war to a speedy end -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
Formally signed on September 2 -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
General Yamashita was hanged for war crrimes
