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Becoming leader
Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party -
Prime Minister
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy -
Dictator
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR) -
Japan
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China -
Hitler
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany -
Neutrality Act
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress -
Italy
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa -
Hitler
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty -
Take control
Militarist take control of Japanese Government -
Japan
1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people. -
Giving away
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany -
Nazis
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps -
Nazis
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin -
Nazis
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany -
take control
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control -
Germany
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender -
Draft
First time Peacetime Draft in US -
Battle
Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
Atlantic Charter
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter -
Japanese
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) -
Hitler
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans -
Pearl Harbor
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 -
Iosolation
japanese Americans interned in iolated camps -
Russians
Russians stop Nazi advandce at stalingrad -
Midway
Battle of midway, turning point of war in the pacific. -
Alies defeat gremans.
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa -
zoot suits
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA -
Italy
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min. -
Bulge
Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces -
D-Day
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies -
Paris
Paris retaken by Allies Forces -
FDR dies
April 16th - FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President -
V-E day
V-E Day, war ends in Europe -
United States
US forces return to recapture the Philippines -
V-J Day
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces -
Bombing
First Atomic Bombs dropped -
War Crimes
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
