WW2

By DK_Kuhno

  • US Neutrality Acts

    US Neutrality Acts enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality.

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    When the Japanese Kwantung Army (also known as the Guandong Army) contrived to invade Manchuria on 18 September 1931, it unleashed military and political forces which led ultimately to the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

  • Hitler takes power

    hitler takes power and starts killing jews like a mad man.

  • US neutrality act

    america said they would stay neutral and stay out

  • Germany invades Rhineland

    The Treaty of Versailles, signed in July 1919. In 1925 the Locarno Pact was signed. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party seized full power in Germany, promising vengeance against the Allied nations that had forced the Treaty of Versailles on the German people.

  • Hitler Annexes Austria

    On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. Austria existed as a federal state of Germany until the end of World War II.

  • Germany Invades Sudetenland

    22 September 1938, Chamberlain met Hitler again at Godesberg, Chamberlain offered Hitler control of the Sudetenland. hitler said he has to get his armey out of there by october 1, 1938.

  • The Munich Conference

    The Munich Pact seals the fate of Czechoslovakia. It handed over to the Nazi war machine 66 percent of Czechoslovakia's coal, 70 percent of its iron and steel, and 70 percent of its electrical power.

  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

    On August 23, 1939 hitler and stalin signed a non-agresion pact that says they are to keep peace. but hitler gets gready and wants more land so he tryed to take over some of stalins land and broke the non-agression pact.

  • the start of WW2

    germany attacked poland european countries had to act creating WW2.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air. when the germans attacked poland they used the blitzkrieg method. that is when they use fast moveing tanks, fast moving air suport, and lots of reinforcements.

  • US Lend-Lease Program

    Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.

  • Rescue at Dunkirk

    The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and French troops from Dunkirk's beaches on the north coast of France was about to begin. more than 330,000 troops were rescued from the beaches in one of the most astonishing operations of the war.

  • Battle of Britain

    On 18 June 1940, Churchill gave a rousing speech to the British people, announcing the Battle of France is over. France surrendered to Germany and Hitler turned his attention to Britain. The battle began in mid-July and, initially, the Luftwaffe concentrated on attacking shipping in the English Channel and attacking coastal towns and defences.

  • Fall of France

    The defeat of this powerful army in a mere six weeks in 1940 stands as one of the most remarkable military campaigns in history. The French had suffered massive casualties in frontal attacks in 1914.

  • The Phony War (sitzkrieg)

  • Yugoslavia and Greece fall

    The attack on Yugoslavia was swift and brutal, an act of terror resulting in the death of 17,000 civilians the largest number of civilian casualties in a single day since the start of the war. All of Yugoslavia's airfields were also bombed, destroying most of its 600 aircraft while still on the ground.

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

    Germany occupied what is now Belarus and most of Ukraine, and surrounded Leningrad. Hitler had counted on taking Moscow before Russia's punishing winter set in, but the half-starved German army didn't even arrive on the outskirts until September.

  • Mussolini invades Ethiopia

    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on 29 July 1883. In March 1919, Mussolini formed the Fascist Party. He was captured by Italian partisans and shot on 28 April 1945.