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Mussolini and the Fascists come to power in Italy
Benito Mussolini rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism. Originally a revolutionary Socialist, he forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922 -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident ,the Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Hilter and the Nazis come to power in Germany
The Nazis capitalized on the situation by criticizing the ruling government and began to win elections. July 1932 elections, they captured 230 out of 608 seats in the Reichstag or German parliament. -
Germany and the USSR sign the Non-Aggression Pact
August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years -
Munich Conference
March 1938, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the ethnically German Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland which was fomented by the Sudeten German Party. -
Neutrality Acts passed in US
The growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II, the legacy of the Neutrality Acts was widely regarded as having been generally negative. -
Kristallnacht
November 9 to the 10, 1938 the Nazis touched synagogues Jewish houmes, businesses, and schools were shot down. Night of Broken Glass 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. -
Germany invades Poland-Beginning of WW2
The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea, Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the Kriegsmarine and aircraft of the Luftwaffe against the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, and Allied merchant shipping. -
Rosie the Riveter campaign encourages women to get a job
A cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. -
France falls to Germany
Britain and France despite having declared war on Germany in September 1939 following Hitler’s attack on Poland had seen little real fighting called the Phoney War. -
Rescue at Dunkirt
The Battle of Dunkirk was an important battle that took place in Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. The war started May 26, 1940 and ended June 3, 1940. -
Formation of the Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, it was two of the three Axis powers that had initiated conflicts that would become theaters of war in World War 2 -
Presidential election of 1940
The election was fought in the shadow of World War II in Europe, as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression, Republican candidate was maverick businessman Wendell Willkie a dark horse who crusaded against Roosevelt's perceived failure to end the Depression and his supposed eagerness for war -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Japan attacks the US Navy base at Peral Harbor, more than 2,000 military and civilians were killed, The US declared war on the empire of Japan. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii -
Allied Invasion/Victory in the Philippines
The Philippine Congress at the end of 1965 to send troops to South Vietnam–and the opposition to that proposal had been led by Marcos, then president of the senate. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer from Saisaih Pt. and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000 to 80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war which began on April 9, 1942, after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II -
Battle of Midway Island
Battle of Midway Island was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater 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 under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A -
D-Day Invasion
The Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control, codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, 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. -
Presidental Election of 1944
Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic nominee, sought his fourth term in office, defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey in the general election. -
Battle of the bulge
United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the western front, and Germany was largely unable to replace them. -
Yalta Conference
The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea.United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
V-E Day
V-E Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Manhattan Project
The Army component of the project was designated the Manhattan District, Manhattan gradually, superseded the official codename, Development of Substitute Materials, for the entire project along the way, the project absorbed its earlier British counterpart, Tube Alloys. -
Formation of the United Nations
United Nations was coined by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941 to describe the countries fighting against the Axis. It was first used officially on Jan. 1, 1942, when 26 states joined in the Declaration by the United Nations, pledging themselves to continue their joint war effort -
Congress passes the Lend Lease Act
In the 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 -
Relocation of Japanese Americans to camps
The U.S. government ordered the removal of Japanese Americans in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, all who lived on the West Coast were sent to camps, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were interned. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.
