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1921, Jan. 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
Hitler Named Leader of Nazi Party. By early 1921, Adolf Hitler was becoming highly effective at speaking in front of ever larger crowds. -
1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
1922, the king appointed Benito Mussolini as prime minister in an attempt to prevent a communist revolution in Italy. -
1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
This eventually led him to be the sole uncontested leader of the Party and the Soviet Union. ... Further information: Early life of Joseph Stalin and Joseph Stalin in the ... trade unions and a formal imposition of Party dictatorship over the industrial .... a while, and was finally exiled from the Soviet Union itself in January 1929. -
1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
Manchuria, on China?s eastern seaboard, was attacked by Japan in 1931. The League ... Many people admired the more robust response of the army. -
1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany ..... The NSDAP gained three posts: Hitler was named chancellor, Wilhelm Frick ... Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler on the Day of Potsdam, 21 March 1933. -
1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
Between 1935 and 1939 Congress passed four neutrality acts to limit America's involvement in foreign conflicts. -
1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland -
1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government
Firstly, the Japanese had no jobs, no money. Secondly, the Moderates had not prove themselves that they can provide better life for the Japanese. Thirdly, the Japanese traders cannot trade when the depression take place and hence, with the militarist leaders take over the nation, they promised to have an aggression foreign policy that attracted them because at last, they have another market to sell their products without relying on US/European Nation that were suffered from the Great Depression. -
1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
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1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
Munich Pact Signed thus giving the Sudetenland away to German the demands of Germans living in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia for closer ties with Germany. -
1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps POWs who were Jews, or whom the Nazis believed to be subcamps were set up near factories to provide forced labor. -
1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
The invasion of Poland by Germany began at 4:45 am on the 1st of September, when the Germans opened of September to declare war on Germany. -
1940 May 10 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
The battle lasted from 10 May 1940 until the main Dutch ... After the German invasion of Norway and Denmark, ... offensive into Central Belgium. -
1940 July 10 Battle of Britain begins – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign -
1940 July 14 - 22Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
In the Second World War, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the successful German invasion of France -
1940 Sept 16 - First time Peacetime Draft in US
the 76th United States Congress: Effective: September 16. 16, 1940, was the first peacetime conscription in United States history -
1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
Hitler Breaks the Treaty of Versailles Hitler invades Poland and starts World War II. World War II Hitler invades Russia in June 1941. -
1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a of the Atlantic Charter. Churchill and Roosevelt began a September 1941 speech, -
1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
In September 1940, the Japanese invaded Vichy French Indochina in order to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway, -
1941, 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
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
lots of american prisioners were captured by japanese