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World War ll Era
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1921, Jan. 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler becomes official leader of the Nazi party and was announced as "Fuehrer" in public for the first time -
1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Mussolini was announced Prime Minister of Italy after creating his Facist party -
1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Joeseph Stalin became sole Dictatior of the Sovjet Union after slowly taking power away from Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev -
1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
After in explosion in Mukden, the Japanese military invaded Manchuria -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, becomes CHancellor of Germany -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
Italien armed forces Eritrea invaded Ethopia without a declaration of war just shortly after the League exonerated both parties in the Walwal incident -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
Every japanese man stands fully behind there military/government. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Since it broked the treaty it marked the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region. -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
The acts of violence lasted into the middle of July and over a quarter million of people were killed. -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
It permitted the annesxiation of the Sudetenland, a part of Chzecoslovakia mainly populated by ethnic Germans, to Nazi Germany. -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Nazis make Jews register wealth and property and start deporting them into labour/concentration camps. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
Russia and Germany sign this pact and agree that they will not attack each other. In secret they agree that they will share Poland after invasion. -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
Germans Blitzkrieg method worked fast, Poland was invaded in a very short time -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
The Germans started there invasion on western Europe. France and Brittain are concerned. -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
After surrendering,Northern France spent four years under German occupation. -
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
Germany used terror bombing tecniques and bombin on brittish aircraft factories to become superior over the Royal Air Force. -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
the first peacetime program of compulsory military service takes effect. Under the Selective Training and Service Act, all males between the ages of 21 to 35 are required to register for the draft. -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States -
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
in order to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway. -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
He broke the pact so he could attack on the soviet union -
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan
a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Germany and Italy declare war on the US
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Philippines fall to Japanese
The Bataan Death March- 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. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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. -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
The German Army never fully recovered from the beating it took in Russia around Moscow -
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
It was the most important naval battle of world war 2. "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare." -
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 -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
Also known as the North African Campaign -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
Dismissed by Victor Emmanuel III -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
With much of France now under allied control the Americans decided that the liberation of Paris by Christmas would be politically advantageous. -
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
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. It was also a surprise attack -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
The first objective was the capture of Leyte, an island situated between Luzon and Mindanao. After a two day naval bombardment General Walter Krueger and the 6th Army landed on 22nd October, 1944. -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
After the death of FDR, Harry S. Truman of Missouri, the Vice President, took the oath as the thirty-second President. -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
Also known as Victory in Europe day: tit was to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. whcih marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
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V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations so they surrendered -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
Due to major war criminals, the war crime trials had to be held
