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Hitler to Power
1921, Jan. 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party -
Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy -
Josef Stalin, Dictator of Russia.
1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR) -
Japan in Manchuria.
1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China -
Hitler as chancellor.
1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany -
Neutral US.
1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress -
Italy in Africa.
1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa -
Japanese government overtaken.
1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government -
Hitler's troops to Rhineland.
1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty -
Japan pillages Nanjing
1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people. -
Germany takes the Sudetenland.
1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany -
The Holocaust begins.
1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps -
Labor camps become crowded.
1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps -
The War s on.
1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany -
Nazis continue invasion of Europe.
1940 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control -
The French surrender.
1940 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender -
Keep the peace.
1940 First time Peacetime Draft in US -
The Battle of Britain.
1940 Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
Japanese make a move.
1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) -
Hitler defies Stalin.
1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans -
Britain and America create Atlantic Charter.
1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter -
The attack at Pearl Harbor.
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 -
The Death March
1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March -
Japanese Americans suspected.
1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps. -
The turning point.
1942, June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific -
Battle at Stalingrad
1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow -
North Africa protected
1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa -
D-Day
1944 June 6 - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
