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Adolf becomes leader of Nazi Party
He reformed the nazi party and made himself leader. He makes the declaration at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
because the Italian king at the time, Victor Emmanuel III, was worried about what would happen after the march on Rome for the Fascist movement. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
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Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
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Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
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Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. ... In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe. -
italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
Thursday, 3 October 1935. In 1935, the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German. -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
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Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
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1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
1940 May 10 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium
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Battle of Britain begins
On this day in 1940, the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins. -
22 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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First time Peacetime Draft in US
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Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces
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Philippines fall to Japanese
The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. The invasion of the Philippines started on 8 December 1941, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku ... -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
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Zoot Suit Riots
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racist attacks in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, between Mexican American youths and European American servicemen stationed in Southern California. -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
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D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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US forces return to recapture the Philippines
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FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
