WW2 Timeline

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  • Invasion of Manchuria

    Invasion of Manchuria
    In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler becomes Chancellor
    President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues.

  • Invasion of Ethiopia

    Invasion of Ethiopia
    Italo-Ethiopian War, (1935–36), an armed conflict that resulted in Ethiopia's subjection to Italian rule. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia.

  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    Conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps.

  • Non- Aggression Pact

    Non- Aggression Pact
    shortly before World War II (1939-45) 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.

  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland
    The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. sept. 1- oct 6

  • Invasion of France

    Invasion of France
    The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries. May 10, 1940 – Jun 25, 1940

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. Jul 10, 1940 – Oct 31, 1940

  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad
    The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. 1942 – February 2, 1943