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Mussolini and the Fascists come to power in Italy
https://youtu.be/tDYtKsTjIWAMussolini's Fascist movement and Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' party were founded early in 1919, yet whereas Mussolini had been apointed prime minister of Italy on Oct.29,1922. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo. -
Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo. -
Germany and the USSR sign the Non-Aggresion Pact
The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact fell apart in June 1941, when Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. It broke because two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Neutrality Acts passed in the US
U.S. Congress was worried bout german and Italian aggersion. They passed the Neutrailty Acts, making it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war. -
Munich Conference
Britain, France, Germany and Italy meet to try to prevent war, but Germany refuses to back down. Germany wanted Sudetenland. -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. -
Germany invades Poland-Beginning of WW2
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Battle of Bulge
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Battle of the Atlantic
https://youtu.be/YDX0odyws_sThis battle to control the Atlantic shipping lanes involved thousands of ships and stretched across thousands of perilous square miles of ocean. In the war German warships made a number of forays into the shipping lanes, aiming to catch and destroy Allied convoys. -
France falls to Germany
June 1940 France surrenders to Gemany. Charles De Gualle, French general, organizes opposition to Germany -
Rescue at Dunkirk
It was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940. On the first day of the evacuation, only 7,669 men were evacuated. -
Formation of the Axis Powers
Italy invades Ethiopia. In 1937 Germay and Italy join forces. -
Presidental election of 1940
It was the 39th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. The election was fought in the shadow of World War II in Europe, as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression -
Congress passes the Lend Lease Act
1941 Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act. U.S. can lead or lease arms supplies to any country vitual tothe U.S. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
It lasted 2 hours. Destroyed 20 vessels, 8 battleships, 200 planes; 3,000 casualties -
Relocation of Japanese Americans to camps
After the attack on Pearl Harbor approximately 120,000 American citizens were force to move to 10 internment camps across the country. -
Bataan Death March
Approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of MIdway Island
It was a major turning point. U.S. commander: Admiral Chester Nimitz -
Roise the Riveter campaign encourages women toget a job
While the men where at war the women where available to fill in their jobs. -
D-Day Invasion
Allies invaded Western Europe; more than 160,000 allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on beaches of Normandy, France. -
Allied invasion/Victory in the Philippines
American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel th eImperial Janese forces occupying the Philippines. -
Presidental Election of 1944
Took place while the United States was preoccupied with the fighting WW2. -
Yalta Conference
It was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as WW2 was winding down. -
V-E Day
It marks the Formal acceptance by the Allies of WW2 of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Manhattan Projects
The nuclear age began. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first developed atomic bomb over the japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Surrender of japan
https://youtu.be/y4LcYHzc2MkIt brought an end to WW2, they surrendered to the Allies. -
Formation of the United Nations
On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
