World War II

By nash_kathleen
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    World War II

  • 1921, Jan. 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

  • 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • 1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

  • 1931 Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China

  • 1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • 1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • 1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

  • 1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government

  • 1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty

  • 1937 Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people

  • 1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

  • 1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • 1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

  • 1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • 1940 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control

  • 1940 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

  • 1940 Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

  • 1940 First time Peacetime Draft in US

  • 1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans

  • 1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

  • 1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

  • 1941, Dec. 7 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

  • 1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March

  • 1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

  • 1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

  • 1942, June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific

  • 1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

  • 1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

  • 1943 July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

  • 1944 June 6 - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

  • 1944 Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces

  • 1945 Jan. – US forces return to recapture the Philippines

  • 1945 April 16th - FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

  • 1945 May 8th - V-E Day, war ends in Europe

  • 1945 Aug. - First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • 1945 Aug. 14th – V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

  • 1946 War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.