WW II Timeline By mattmccarthy Nov 11, 1918 End of WW II Jan 30, 1919 Hitler joins the Nazi Party Jan 30, 1922 Establishment of the USSR Jan 30, 1922 Mussolini takes over Italy Jan 30, 1922 Facist party established in Italy under Mussolini Jan 30, 1924 Death of Vladimir Lenin; Control of USSR to Joseph Stalin; deaths of 8-13 million people Jan 30, 1928 U.S. and 61 other countries sign the Kellogg-Braind Pact Jan 30, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Roosevelt takes office Jan 30, 1935 U.S. begins passing nutrality acts Jan 30, 1935 Hitler begins military build-up Jan 30, 1936 Italian troops conquer Ethiopia Jan 30, 1936 Civil War begins in Spain under Fransisco Franco Jan 30, 1936 German troops invade Rhineland Jan 30, 1936 Japan invades China Jan 30, 1937 Hitler announces secret plans for lebensraum Jan 30, 1938 Hitler takes Austria Jan 30, 1938 Munich Agreement; Sudetrnland to Germany Jan 30, 1938 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, establishing the Third Reich Jan 30, 1939 Czechoslovakia falls to Hitler Jan 30, 1939 Non-Agression Pact; Germany and Russia; divide Poland Jan 30, 1939 Franco is successful in Spain Jan 30, 1939 Totalitarian government established in USSR Jan 30, 1939 German invasion of Poland; Blitzkrieg war Jan 30, 1940 Russian army into Finland( Finns fall in three months) Jan 30, 1940 Germany invasion of Denmark and Norway Jan 30, 1940 Defeat of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg by Germany Jan 30, 1940 British and French defeated at Dunkirk Jan 30, 1940 Italy joins the war on the side of Germany and invades France Jan 30, 1940 France surrenders to Germany Jan 30, 1940 Plans for the invasion of Great Britian begin
