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Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. Promising to make Germany a better place and to make it one of the greatest country. -
Mussolini Invades Ethiopia
Italy, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, invades Ethiopia. -
Neutrality Act
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, which bans travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations. -
Roosevelt Limits Ships to Asia
President Franklin D. Roosevelt forbids U.S. ships from carrying arms to China or Japan. -
Hitler invades Poland
Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, he did that because he wanted more land, especially in the east, to expand Germany -
Britain & France declare war on Germany
Britain and France declared war on Germany. Neville Chamberlain made the announcement that the country was at war becase of what Hitler had done and that was indaved Poland. -
Blitzkrieg
Hitler launched his blitzkrieg (lightning war) against Holland and Belgium. Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied. -
Dunkirk
The British commander-in-chief, General Gort, had been forced to retreat to the coast at Dunkirk. The troops waited, under merciless fire, to be taken off the beaches. A call went out to all owners of sea-worthy vessels to travel to Dunkirk to take the troops off the beaches of Dunkirk. More than 338,000 men were rescued, among them some 140,000 French who would form the nucleus of the Free French army under a little known general, Charles de Gaulle. -
Tojo
General Hideki Tojo took control of Japan -
Japan declares war on the USA
On this day is when Japan attacks Pearl Habor and that is when USA joins in for WWII -
D-Day
D-Day: The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France. -
FDR dies
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. -
Mussolini Dies
Italian insurgents capture Mussolini, murder him, and mutilate his body. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin. -
Germany Surrenders
Germany surrendered and World War II ended -
V.E
Victory in Europe was celebrated. -
Tokyo Petitions for Peace
Tokyo asks for peace on the condition that Emperor Hirohito will retain his throne. The Allies accept. -
Hiroshima
The United States drops an atomic bomb—the first to be used in warfare—on Hiroshima, killing 75,000 people instantly, and injuring more than 100,000. -
The second bomb is dropped in Nagasaki
The second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki killing half of what The bomb of Hiroshima had killed that was to make Japan surrender. -
Japan Surrenders
Japan now has no other option than to surrender after the two bombs U.S. dropped and killing a lot of innocent people and basically destroying everything. -
Japan surrenders
A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay on the U.S. battleship Missouri. World War II officially ends. -
Wold War 2 has come to its end
US General, Douglas MacArthur, accepted Japan's surrender formally ending the second world war.
