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Adlouf Hilter
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Hitler becomes leader of the Natzi party
Hitler became popular becuame he gave the Germans something to blame for their trubels, the Jews -
Benito Mussolini is made prime minster of Italy
Mussolini thretaned to overthrow the Italian government, so the king of Italy made him prime minster. Mussolini made Italy the first Fasctis state, and he banned every political party that was not his own. -
Joseph Stalin, Sole Dictator of the Soveit Union
Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a totalarion state wich means a single party controles every acspect of people's lives. He damanded peasents to give all thier the crops, animals, and land to government run farms. Protesters where executed or sent to labor camps -
Japan's army siezes Manchuria, China
Japan was suffering geratly from the Great Deppresion and the people had lost faith in their government so theay attacked China becuse China was rich in minerals and resources. -
Hitler named chancler of Germany
hitler's rise to powerHitler was popular and he became chancler becuse he promised to restore Germany to its former glory -
Neutralty Acts passed by the U.S Congresses
America tried to stay out of the war by passing a law that forbade the presedent from selling arms, making loans, or helping any nation invoved in the war -
Italian army invaides Ethiopia, Africa
The Ethiopians fought bravely but thier calvery and outdated rifels where no match for Itialy's tanks and airplanes -
Mitileraists take control of Japense government
the Great Depersion made it easy for dictatores to come into power becuse thay told people that they where superior to everyone else and they deserved to own everything they wanted -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany violating the Vearslies Treaty
Hitler built up his army and sent the to Rhineland in violation to the Treaty -
Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China; massacure a quarter of a million people
Japan Milterists preached that Japan was supier to non-Asians as well as other Asians. They beleved Japan needed more land so they attcked China -
Munich Pact signed
the Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps through deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labor. Prisoners were transported in inhumane conditions by rail freight cars, in which many died before reaching their destination. The prisoners were confined to the boxcars for days or even weeks, with little or no food or water. Many died of dehydration in the intense heat of summer or froze to death in winter. Concentration camps also existe -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
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Nazis invade Poland;Bitain and France declare war on Germany
Britain initially did no more than the drop anti-Nazi propaganda leaflets—13 tons of them—over Germany. They would begin bombing German ships on September 4, suffering significant losses. They were also working under orders not to harm German civilians. The German military, of course, had no such restrictions. France would begin an offensive against Germany's western border two weeks later. -
Nazis take control ofDenmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium
German forces were able to slip through the mines Britain had laid around Norwegian ports because local garrisons were ordered to allow the Germans to land unopposed -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
France, along with the United Kingdom, was one of the first participants in World War II after declaring war on Germany following its invasion of Poland in 1939. After the Phoney War from 1939 to 1940, the Germans conducted a brilliant campaign in the Low Countries and, in the Battle of France, managed to inflict defeat on the Allied forces. France formally surrendered to Germany and Italy who invaded late in the campaign -
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
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1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval rmany and Air forces
The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning -
July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min
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Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
becuse of predjedce aganst Latinos's choice of clothing many riots broke out in the big cities -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
so many solders died on this date that it was named Death Day -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
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Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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U.S. Forces return to recapture the Philippines
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War ends in Europe
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First atomic bombs dropped
the bomb ended the war but had lasting consquses of harmful radiation -
Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
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War Crime Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
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Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
