WW2 time line the battle of toast vs ranch

Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party

Feb 20, 1921

Benito Mussolini appointer prime minister of Italy

Feb 20, 1922

Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

Feb 21, 1929

Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China

Feb 21, 1931

Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

Mar 21, 1933

Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

Feb 21, 1935

Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

Feb 21, 1935

Laws passed by Congress to stop the U.S. from going to war

Militarist take control of Japanese Government

Feb 21, 1936

Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles treaty

Feb 21, 1936

Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China;massacre almost a quarter of a million people

Feb 21, 1937

Munich Pact signed giving Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

Feb 21, 1938

Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

Feb 21, 1938

Nazi-Soviet pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

Feb 21, 1939

Nazis invade Poland;Britain and France declare war on Germany

Sep 1, 1939

Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium - take control

Feb 21, 1940

Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

Feb 23, 1940

Battle of Britain- Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

Feb 24, 1940

Britain fends of German Air force with its superior air force to defend itself from an invasion

First time Peacetime Draft in US

Feb 25, 1940

This was the first time that a country had a military draft while at peace

Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

Feb 18, 1941

Hitler breaks pact with Stalin's Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans

Feb 26, 1941

Japanese invade French Indochina (Vet. Laos Cambodia)

Feb 28, 1941