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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
Hitler is appointed head of the Nazi party -
Benito Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Mussolini was appointed PM in January of 1922 -
Josef Stalin sole director of the soviet union
Josef Stalin is head of the USSR -
Japanese army seizes Manchuria
Japan takes control of Manchuria -
Hitler is chancellor of Germany
Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany -
Neutrality act passed by US congress
US becomes a neutral force, deciding to not intervene in WWII -
Italy invades Ethiopia
Mussolini orders Italian army to invade Ethiopia -
Militarists take control of Japanese gov.
Japan converts government system to Militarism -
Hitler violates the TofV
Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. -
Japanese Massacre
Japan pillages Nanjing in China and kills a quarter of a million people -
Sudetenland is given to Germany
Czechoslovakian's Sudetenland was given to Germany when the Munich pact was signed -
Labor camps
The Nazi party starts to round up the Jews and placing in labor camps -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler singed the Nazi-Soviet pact -
Germany invades France
Germany invades France and forces France to Surrender -
Nazi's invade
The Nazi's invade and take control of Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. -
Battle of Britain begins
Germany tries to invade Great Britain but the Royal Air Force prevents a successful invasion. -
US peacetime draft
The US enacts the first peacetime in US history -
Hitler & the USSR
Hitler breaks the pact with Stalin and tries to invade Russia; Russia in turn Joins England in the fighting -
Atlantic Charter
FDR and Churchill issue the Atlantic Charter -
Japan and French Indochina
Japan invades French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese Carried out an attack on Pearl Harbor. the US declares war on Japan; And in turn Germany and Italy declare wr on the US. -
Bataan Death March
The Japanese invade the Philippines and take 140,000 prisoners from both the US and the Philippines. -
Stalingrad
The Russians stop the Nazi's from advancing at Stalingrad and save Moscow -
Defeat in North Africa
The British and US forces defeat the German an Italian armies in North Africa. -
Isolation capms
Japanese Americans are put in isolated camps -
Zoot suit riots
riots broke out in Los Angeles over Latino children being beaten -
Battle of Midway
Between Japan and the US, this battle is considered to be the turning point in the war -
Italy Surrenders
Prime minister Mussolini is dismissed -
D-Day
the invasion of France by Normandy by allies -
Paris
Paris is retaken by allied forces -
Battle of the Bulge
The last German offensive push -
Philippines
US forces recapture the Phillippines -
FDR dies
Harry Truman becomes president -
VE-Day
war ends in Europe -
VJ-Day
Japan surrenders to allied forces -
first atomic bomb dropped
the first atomic bomb used on humans was dropped on Hiroshima -
war crime trials
war crime trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines; and Tokyo, Japan
