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World War 2 - Walters
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Adolf Hitler becomes leadrer of Nazi party
The Great Depression increased Hitlers popularity. He became named the chancllor and the leader of German parliament. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Mussolini tuned Italy into the worlds first Fascist state. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
He turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state. -
Japanese army seizes Manchuria, China
The League of Nations protested against this, but took no action. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Hitlers speach with english subtitles
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or of the or Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany. -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license. -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
Ethiopia's leader, Haile Selassie, appealed to the League of Nations for help. However, they responded weakly and Ethiopia fell into thw invaders. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Two years after this event, his troops invaded Austria. Just as predicted the European democracies did nothing to stop him such as before. -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
Like Nazis in Germany, Japanese militarists preached racism. They thought they were superior to other Asians as well as non-asians. -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China
For six weeks the Japanese army pillaged the city in China. In the assult, more than a quarter of a millon civillians an prisoners of war were massacred. -
Munich Pact signed
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. After this Hitler promised he would seek no further territory. -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Jews are liable for forced labor. They can be picked up off the streets for work at manual labor jobs such as digging ditches, shoveling snow, and cleaning streets. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
They signed a non-agression agreement. Together, they secretly decided to divide up Poland. -
Nazis invade Poland
Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium
The Nazis take control of all these countries. -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
The British and French had responded to the original attack by putting into operation a plan to advance to the River Dyle, in Belgium. -
Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
This required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards. -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades
USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. -
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
France's rapid fall to the Germans meant weakened colonial rule in Indochina. Japan saw an opportunity to extend her own empire all the way to Malaysia and into India, and that is what she set out to do. -
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
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
Despite the lack of any concrete evidence, Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land. ANTI-JAPANESE PARANOIA increased because of a large Japanese presence on the West Coast. -
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive. -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
For a time, the entire Eastern Front had teetered on the verge of collapse as division upon division of well-equipped Russians materialized seemingly out of nowhere and attacked. -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century. -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
With Mussolini deposed from power and the earlier collapse of the fascist government in July, Gen. Pietro Badoglio, the man who had assumed power in Mussolini's stead by request of King Victor Emanuel, began negotiating with Gen. Eisenhower for weeks. -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
On 6 June 1944 the Western Allies landed in northern France, opening the long-awaited "Second Front" against Adolf Hitler's Germany. -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
Just as the Allies (UK, USA, Canada, Free French Forces) had secured the area around Normandy, Free French Forces insisted on advancing into Paris -
Battle of the Bulge
Last offensive of German Forces -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
The ensuing battles of Leyte Island proved among the bloodiest of the war in the Pacific and signaled the beginning of the end for the Japanese. -
FDR dies
Harry S. Truman becomes President -
V-E Day
War ends in Europe -
V-J Day
Japan surrenders to Allied Forces -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
Atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki -
War Crimes Trials
Held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
