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WORLD WAR II
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Prime Minister
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy -
(USSR)
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union -
Japan's Army
Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China -
hitler named chancellor
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. -
Neutrality Act
Neutrality Act passed by US Congress -
Italian Rade
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa -
Militarist take control
Militarist take control of Japanese Goverment -
Hitler sends troops to Rhineland
Hitler sends troops to Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty -
Japan's army
Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quater of a million people -
Munich Pact
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. -
Nazis begin
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps -
Nazi-Soviet
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin. -
Nazis invade Poland
Nazis incade Poland; Britian and France declare war on Germany. -
Nazis invade Denmark
Invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium--take control. -
Germany invades France
Invades France and forces it to surrender. -
Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Forces to precent invasion of their land. -
First time Peacetime
First time Peacetime Draft in US. -
Hitler breaks pact
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin's Russia and invades. USSR no joins England in fighting the Germans. -
Churchill and FDR issue
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter. -
Japanese invade French
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) -
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air Forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on US. -
Philippines fall
Philippines fall to Japanese- Bataan Death March -
Japanese Americans intern
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps -
Battle of Midway
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific -
Russians stop Nazis
Russians stop Nazis advance at Stalingrad save Moscow -
British & US forces defeat
Defeat German & Italian armis in North America -
Zoot Suit Riots
Los Angeles, CA. Riots because young men were in a style of suit that was seen as innapropriet at the time because of world war two -
Italy surrenders
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister. -
D-Day
invasion of France at Normandy by Allies -
Paris retaken
Paris taken back by Allie Forces -
Battle of the Bulge
Last offensive of German Forces -
Recapture the Phillippines
US forces return to recapture the Phillippines -
FDR dies
Harry s. Truman becomes president -
V-E day
war ends in Europe -
V-J day
Japan surrenders to Allied Forces -
Atomic Bombs
First atomic bombs are dropped by U.S. -
War Crimes Trials
held in Nureburg Germany, Manila
