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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the nazi party
Many german's were angry over their defeat in world war I and the heavy reparation payments forced on them by the aliies. Among them was an exterme nationalist, adolf hitler. By 1921, hitler had become leader of a small group know as Nazi Party. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
After world was I, econmic problems in italy had led to unrest. Benito Mussolini promised to restore order through strong leader ship. In october, 1922 Mussolini threatned to overthrow italy's elected goverment. In responses, the king zppointed mussolini prome minister. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union
Stalin took brutal measures to control and mderinize industry and argiculture. He ordered peasents to give crops,animals, and land to goverment- run farms. Millions of pheasents who resisted where sent to labor camps or executed. -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
In 1931, acting without permission of japan's elected goverment, the japenese army seized manchuria in northeastern china. The leauge of nations, which had been founded to halt agression, protested but took no action! -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
The great depression increased hitler's popularity. In 1933, he was named chancellor of germany, or the leader of the german parliament. -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
In 1935, congress passed the neutrality act. It was the first of sereval laws designed to keep the united states at peace. -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
In 1935, mussolini's armie's invaded the aftrican country of ethiopia. Though the Ethopian's fought bravely their cavalry and outdated rifles were no match for italy's modern tanks and airplanes. -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
In japan, the great depression was taking a toll also. Military leaders pressured the civillan goverment to take control of nearby countries. Militarists argued that thier island nation needed more space, as well as raw matrial. By 1936, militarist were in complete control of the japenese goverment. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Hitler breaks the versailles treaty and sends troops into Rhineland of Germany. -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
After 1937, japan stepped up its agression in china. Japenese armies treated the chinese brutally. For six weeks, japenese force's pillaged the chinese city of Nanjing. In assualt, more than a half a million civillians and prisoner's of war
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Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
The munich pact is signed giving he sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to germany. -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Hitler thought anyone who was jewish didn't have the right to live in germany. So he declared military personal round them up and take them to conncentration and labor camps. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
The pact's publicly stated intentions were a guarantee of non-belligerence by either party towards the other, and a commitment that neither party would ally with or aid an enemy of the other party. This latter provision ensured that Germany would not support Japan in its undeclared war against the Soviet Union along the Manchurian-Mongolian border, ensuring that the Soviets won the Battles of Khalkhin Gol. -
Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
This is what started world war II. When Britian and France found out Germany had invaded poland after Hitler told them he would not they were outraged and instantly called war with Germany. -
Battle of Britian
The name is derived from a famous speech delivered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the House of Commons: "... the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most susta -
First time peacedraft in U.S.
Also known as the cronscription of the U.S. has been employed by the federal government on three occasions. The third incarnation of the draft came into being in 1940 through the Selective Training and Service Act. It was the country's first peacetime draft. From 1940 until 1973, during both peacetime and periods of conflict, men were drafted to fill vacancies in the armed forces which could not be filled through voluntary means. The draft was ended when the United States -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
Hitler's armies moved north, seizeing denmark and norway. In may they marched west to conquer the netherlands, luxembourg, and belgium. Then they moved into france. -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
Britian sent troops to help france resit the assualt. The british and french however were quickly over powered. By may, the germans had forced them to retrat to dunkirk, a french port on the english channel. -
Hitler breaks pact with stalin's russia and invades- USSR which now joins england in fighting the Germans
Hitler breaks the pact with russia and decides to invade. That convice's ussr to join england in fighting the germans. -
Chruchhill and FDR issue the Atlantic charter
The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooper -
Japenese invade French Indochina
In September 1940, the Japanese occupied Vichy French Indochina in order to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway, from the port of Haiphong through Hanoi to Kunming in Yunnan. The fighting, which lasted several days before the French authorities reached an agreement with the Japanese, took place in the context of the ongoing Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Japan was able to occupy nor -
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 attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHgCPmGnAg&safe=active -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
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 the southwest -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March (Filipino: Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan, Japanese: Batān Shi no Kōshin ,which began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II.All told, approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnell. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally as a geographic matter: all who lived on the West Coast were interned, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one -
June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II.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 (USN), under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kond -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War) and in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch) and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign). The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century. -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. Mexican Americans and white military personnel were the main parties in the riots, and some African American and Filipino/Filipino American youths were involved as well. -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister
The Armistice of Cassibile was an armistice signed on 3 September 1943, and made public on 8 September, between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allies ("United Nations") of World War II. It was signed at a conference of generals from both sides in an Allied military camp at Cassibile in Sicily, which had recently been liberated by the Allies. The armistice presented a total capitulation of Italy and was approved by both King Victor Emanuel III and Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio. -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
D-Day, was Tuesday 6 June 1944 and Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on that day came from Canada, the Free French Forces, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In the weeks following the invasion, Polish forces also participated, as well as contingents from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and the Netherlands.[4] Most of the above countries also provided air and naval support, as did the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the Royal Norwegian Navy. -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
On august 25th Paris was liberated by allied force's . -
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making reso -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
The Philippines campaign of 1944–1945, the Battle of the Philippines 1944–1945, or the Liberation of the Philippines was the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, during World War II. The Japanese Army had overrun all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942. The Liberation of the Philippines commenced with amphibious landings on the eastern Phillipines. -
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 or VE Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) 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. -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. They were the first atomic bomb's dropped on another country. -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan’s surrender was made—to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945. -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
War crimes agianst germany for taking terriotorys it did not have permission to take,tokyo and japan for nuking pearl harbor and taking territory and killing millions of civillans with no reason.
