WWII timeline

By Azurilion

  • Great Depression

    Stock Market crashes and the Depression begins.
  • Period: to

    WWII

  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria begins

    Japan begins its imperialistic expansion by attacking Chinese Manchuria

  • Stimson Doctrine

    US refused to recognize illegaly seized land held by Japan in China.

  • Good Neighbor Policy

    Troops are retracted from Latin America.

  • Japan withdraws from the League of Nations

    Angry about racism and their lack of power Japan withdraws from the League.

  • Revokation of the Roosevelt Corollary

    Franklin D. Roosevelt condemns interventionism.

  • Neutrality acts of 1935

    Not allowed to ship weapons to belligerents.

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    The first act of European aggression.

  • Neutrality acts of 1936

    Were also no longer able to travel on ships belonging to belligerents or loan them money.

  • Francisco Franco attempts to overthrow the Governement of Spain

    Is a facist. Receives support from Hitler and Mussolini.

  • Rome-Berlin Axis

    Germany and Italy become allies.

  • Neutrality acts of 1937

    Sale of non-munition goods to belligerents on a Cash and Carry basis only

  • Marco Polo Bridge

    Japan uses a skirmish at the bridge as a pretext to invade China.

  • Rape of Nanking begins

    It lasts for three weeks and is a mass murder and rape committed by the Japanese military in China's capital.

  • Munich pact

    France and Britain allowed Italy and Germany to annex Ethiopia and Austria and Sudentenland in exchange for no further aggression.

  • Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

    Also known as the Nazi-Soiet Non-Aggression pact

  • World War II begins

    France and Britain declare war on Germany for its aggression against Poland.

  • Neutrality act of 1939

    Cash and Carry was renewed so they could aid there allies in the war.

  • Lend-Lease

    allowed the president to decide who to sell materials to in war.

  • Japanese-Soviet non-aggression pact

    They signed it.

  • Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets

    In protest of their occupation of French Indo-China.

  • Atlantic Charter

    Outlined aims for the post-war world for the allies.

  • Hull note

    A note requesting the removal of Japanese troops from their conquered territories which the Japanese took as an ultimatum despite not legally being one.

  • Pearl Harbour

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbour

  • Roosevelt declares war

    Congress declares war on Japan in retaliation for Pearl Harbour.