WWII

Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

Jun 28, 1919

Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist Nazi Party

Jul 29, 1921

Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.

Jul 18, 1925

Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany

Sep 14, 1930

Roosevelt elected President

Nov 8, 1932

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

German Reichstag Burns

Feb 27, 1933

Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power

Mar 23, 1933

Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

Jul 14, 1933

Germany quites League of Nations

Oct 14, 1933

Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss

Jul 25, 1934

Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss bled to death in his Vienna office, assassinated by Nazis in a (failed) attempt to overthrow the Austrian government.

Hindenburg dies

Aug 2, 1934

Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

Aug 19, 1934

Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription

Mar 16, 1935

Nuremburg Laws passes

Sep 15, 1935

Image: Nuremburg Laws Chart

Germans occupy the Rhinelands

Mar 7, 1936

Here German troops cross the Rhine to recoccupy the Rhineland.

German Military Mobilizes

Aug 12, 1938

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Nazis take Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

Deep inside the former Czechoslovakia, residents of the city of Moravia watch as Hitler's troops roll in.

Non-Aggression Pact

Aug 23, 1939

Nazis invade Poland

Sep 1, 1939

German troops parade through Warsaw after the invasion of Poland

U.S. declares neutrality

Sep 5, 1939

President Roosevelt remained focused on the problems at home as he declared American neutrality.

Soviets invade Poland

Sep 17, 1939

Image: Soviets parade in Lviv, 1939.

Belgium surrenders to the Nazis

May 28, 1940

France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany

Jun 22, 1940

Image: Prime Minister of Vichy France with Hitler.

Battle of Britain begins

Jul 10, 1940

Image: Heinkel He 111 bombers during the Battle of Britain

German Blitz against Britain begins

Sep 7, 1940

President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg

May 11, 1941

Operation Barbarossa begins.

Jun 22, 1941

Germans attack Soviet Union.

Executive Order 8832

Jul 26, 1941

Image: Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.

Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

United States and Britain declare war on Japan

Dec 8, 1941

Hitler declares war on the United States

Dec 11, 1941

Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps

Apr 19, 1942

Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations

Jun 1, 1942

Battle of Stalingrad begins

Sep 13, 1942

Image: Soviets defend a position.

Allies take Tunisia

May 7, 1943

Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland

Jun 11, 1943

Casablanca conference

Jun 14, 1943

Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender."

Allies land in Sicily

Jul 9, 1943

Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls

Jul 25, 1943

Germans rescue Mussolini

Sep 12, 1943

Tehran Conference

Nov 28, 1943

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.

D-Day landings on Normandy

Jun 6, 1944

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

FDR died

Apr 12, 1945

Soviets reach Berlin

Apr 21, 1945

Mussolini is captured and hung by Italian partisans

Apr 28, 1945

Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan, after being shot.

Htiler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government

Jun 5, 1945

Potsdam Conference

Jul 16, 1945

U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

U.S. drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

Japanese agree to unconditional surrender

Aug 14, 1945

Nuremberg war crimes trials begin

Nov 20, 1945