WW II Timeline

End of WW II

Nov 11, 1918

Hitler joins the Nazi Party

Jan 30, 1919

Establishment of the USSR

Jan 30, 1922

Mussolini takes over Italy

Jan 30, 1922

Facist party established in Italy under Mussolini

Jan 30, 1922

Death of Vladimir Lenin; Control of USSR to Joseph Stalin; deaths of 8-13 million people

Jan 30, 1924

U.S. and 61 other countries sign the Kellogg-Braind Pact

Jan 30, 1928

Japan invades Manchuria

Jan 30, 1931

Roosevelt takes office

Jan 30, 1933

U.S. begins passing nutrality acts

Jan 30, 1935

Hitler begins military build-up

Jan 30, 1935

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, 1936

Hitler announces secret plans for lebensraum

Jan 30, 1937

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, 1938

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, 1939

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

Jan 30, 1940