WWII Causes Timeline

By ottmar15
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    Fascist Party rises to power in Italy

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    Nazi Party rises to power in Germany

  • Japan, lacking land and natural resources, becomes land-hungry and looks to establish an empire

  • Mussonlini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Mussonlini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • Hitler tries to overthrow German government, but fails and is impisoned

    Hitler tries to overthrow German government, but fails and is impisoned

  • Japan's economy worsens as a result of the Great Depression

  • America passes a series of Neutrality Acts saying that the US would withhold weapons and loans from all nations at war

  • Japan's army seizes Manchuria

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    Japan's military takes over government

  • Nazi Party is the largest political party in Germany's Reichstag and Hitler becomes head of the German state

    Nazi Party is the largest political party in Germany's Reichstag and Hitler becomes head of the German state

  • Mussolini and Italy invade Ethiopia

  • Hitler signs an alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers

  • German troops invade the Rhineland

  • FDR moves American Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor

  • Hitler annexes Austria

  • Hitler demands the Sudetenland; Britain and France agree in the Munich Conference

  • Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia

  • Britain and France pledge support to Poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany

  • Hitler invades Poland- Blitzkrieg

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

  • Japan controls most of eastern China

  • American First Committee forms to fight for American isolationism

  • Sitzkrieg ends - Germany attacks Denmark and Norway

  • Germany launches blitzkrieg on Belgium

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    German troops enter Paris and France surrenders

  • Japan allies with Germany and Italy- Tripartite Pact

  • Congress authorizes the first peactime draft in the nation's history- Selective Service Act

  • Roosevelt is reelected to a third term

  • Germany begins bombing England/ Battle of Britain

    Germany begins bombing England/ Battle of Britain

  • Lend- Lease Act

  • Japan signs neutrality pact with Soviet Union

  • Japanese forces occupy Indochina; US freezes Japan's American assets and cuts off trade

  • Japeanese forces occupy Indochina; US freezes Japan's American assets and cuts off trade

  • Japanese fleet begins moving toward Southeast Asia; US demands that Japan withdraw from Tripartite Pact

  • German raids on England end

  • American militarty base, Pearl Harbor, is attacked by Japanese warplanes

  • US declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the US