WORLD WAR II

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    WORLD WAR II

  • Prime Minister

    Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
  • (USSR)

    (USSR)

    Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union

  • Japan's Army

    Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China
  • hitler named chancellor

    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

    FDR dies

    Harry s. Truman becomes president

  • V-E day

    war ends in Europe

  • V-J day

    Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
  • Atomic Bombs

    Atomic Bombs

    First atomic bombs are dropped by U.S.

  • War Crimes Trials

    held in Nureburg Germany, Manila