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Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
Mussolini assembled a Fascist Party conference to discuss a coup de main or “sneak attack” on the Italian capital of Rome. -
Joseph Stalin became the leader of the USSR
Stalin became a Soviet Union's and a country's communist party leader after the death of Vladimir Lenin. However, his actual dictatorship began after he became the undisputed leader of Russia in 1929 -
Japan Invades Manchuria
Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. This proved to be one of the causes of World War II. -
Japan invaded China
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Holocaust Began
Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power due to the social and political circumstances that characterized the interwar period in Germany. -
Adolf Hitler became leader of Germany
Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented consolidation of power in the short history of the republic. -
Congress passed the neutrality acts
The United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia had valuable exports and at the time they were also forming a modern army with the help of several European powers, but was purchased with their own money -
European appeasement of Hitler began
The policy of giving in to Germany’s demands in order to maintain peace was known as Appeasement. -
Kristallnacht
Instigated by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA and Hitler Youth, Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom. -
Germany and Russia signed a nonaggression pact
representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war. -
Germany Began The Blitrieg into Poland
Gramany invaded Poland on September 1st,1939.The attack comes without any warning or declaration of war. -
The Manhattan Project.
In late 1941, the American effort to design and build an atomic bomb later receiving its code name: The Manhattan Project. -
Battle of the Atlantic
Germany blockaded America’s merchant ships to control the Atlantic. Then America sent naval ships to block Germany’s trade routes. -
Cash and Carry
President Roosevelt knew that if the Allies fell then the US would be drawn into war, He asked Congress to allow the Allies to buy American arms. The Allies would pay cash and then carry the goods on their own ships. -
Churchill became the Prime Minister of Great Britain
Churchill, who was known for his military leadership ability, was appointed British prime minister in his place. He formed an all-party coalition and quickly won the popular support of Britons. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command. -
The Tripartite Pact was signed
The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war. -
Four Freedoms
The Four Freedoms were: the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear, they symbolized America's war aims and gave hope in the following years to a war-wearied people because they knew they were fighting for freedom. -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials. -
Nazis developed the Final Solution
Nazi Germany's plan to exterminate the Jews. -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. It provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
OPA created
The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
Double V
The Double V was intended to accomplish two things: victory over the Axis powers abroad and victory over Jim Crow and racism at home. -
Japanese put in internment camps in the U.S
The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Tuskegee Airmen
"Tuskegee Airmen" refers to all who were involved in the so-called "Tuskegee Experiment," the Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft. -
Bataan Death March
The forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese.The 63-mile march began with 72,000* prisoners from the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. -
Doolittle Raids
Air attack on Japan, launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet and led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, was the most daring operation yet undertaken by the United States in the young Pacific War. -
WAAC formed
In the build up to its creation, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps encountered the prejudices that existed at that time to women in general. -
Navajo Code Talkers used
During World War II, the Marine Corps used one of the thousands of languages spoken in the world to create an unbreakable code: Navajo. -
Battle of Midway
Naval battle on Midway atoll and a decisive American victory. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. -
Operation Torch
The name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa . The first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together. -
Japanese attack on Pear Harbor
The Japanese attacked on Pear Harbor on December 7th 1942.Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, had initiated planning for a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at the beginning of any hostilities that the Japanese might undertake -
development of Rosie the Riveter
Women affectionately known as "Rosies" helped change industry and had sweeping and lasting impacts. -
Casablanca Conference
The most notable developments at the Conference were the finalization of Allied strategic plans against the Axis powers in 1943, and the promulgation of the policy of “unconditional surrender.” -
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
The legislation was hurriedly created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significantly lowered due to high wartime inflation, struck for a $2-a-day wage increase. -
Tehran Conference
This was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. -
D-Day
June 1944 was a major turning point of World War II, particularly in Europe. Although the initiative had been seized from the Germans some months before, so far the western Allies had been unable to mass sufficient men and material to risk an attack in northern Europe. -
MacArthur "returned" to the philippines
He had made 2.5 years earlier to the people of the Philippines: he returned to the islands with an enormous invasion force and the largest assemblage of naval vessels in the history of mankind. -
Battle of the Bulge
Allied Victory in the Ardennes mountains against the Germans(Also called the Ardennes Offensive) -
Yalta Conference
The big three discuss the reorganization of post war Europe(Stalin,Roosevelt,Churchill) -
Battle Of Iwo Jima
U.S. captured the Island of Iwo Jima storming three japanese airfields -
FDR died
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Nuremberg Trials
Trials against the defeated Nazi Germany after World War 2 -
V-E Day
VE Day Started on May 8th 1954.The day on which the Allies announced the surrender of German forces in Europe. -
The Battle of Okinawa
Codenamed operation Iceberg was an allied victory and the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was on August 6gh 1945.B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan. -
V-J Day
VJ Day started on August 15th 1945.the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japanese forces during World War II.
