Alyssa Harty WW2 Timeline

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  • Adolf Hitler becomes Leader of the Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler becomes Leader of the Nazi Party

    Nazis won by 33% of the vote by promising a way out of the depression
  • Benito Mussolini appointed to Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini appointed to Prime Minister of Italy

  • Josef Stalin becomes Sole Dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

    Josef Stalin becomes Sole Dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

  • Japan's Army Seizes Manchuria, China

    Japan's Army Seizes Manchuria, China

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Neutrality acts passed in the US

    Neutrality acts passed in the US

  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia

    Italian Army invades Ethiopia

  • Militarist take ocntrol of Japanese Government

    Militarist take ocntrol of Japanese Government

  • Hitler sends troops to Rhinland, Germany in violation of the Versallies Treaty

    Hitler sends troops to Rhinland, Germany in violation of the Versallies Treaty

  • Japan's Army pillages through Nanjing, China; massacre of a quarter of a million people

    Japan's Army pillages through Nanjing, China; massacre of a quarter of a million people

  • Munich Pact signed giving Sudetenland of Czechosolvakia to Germany

    Munich Pact signed giving Sudetenland of Czechosolvakia to Germany

  • Nazis start rounidng up Jewish People for labor camps

    Nazis start rounidng up Jewish People for labor camps

  • Nazi-Soviet pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

    Nazi-Soviet pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

  • Nazis invade Poland; Britian and France declare war on Poland

    Nazis invade Poland; Britian and France declare war on Poland

  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

    First time Peacetime Draft in US

  • Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,and Belguim.

    Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,and Belguim.

    Take control
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
  • Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

    Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

  • Hitler breaks pact with Stalin's Russia and invades USSR

    Hitler breaks pact with Stalin's Russia and invades USSR

    which now joins England in fighting the Germans
  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

    Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

  • Japanese invade French Indochina (Laos. Cambodia)

    Japanese invade French Indochina (Laos. Cambodia)

  • Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces,US declares war on Japan,Germany and Italy declare war in the US

    Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces,US declares war on Japan,Germany and Italy declare war in the US

  • Period: to

    Battle of Midway

    Turning Point in the war, in the Pacific
  • Philippenes fall to the Japanese

    Philippenes fall to the Japanese

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated amps

    Japanese Americans interned in isolated amps

  • Russians stop Nazi advance in Strangligrad, Save Moscow

    Russians stop Nazi advance in Strangligrad, Save Moscow

  • Italy Surrenders

    Italy Surrenders

    Mussolini dissmissed as prime minister
  • British and US defeat German and Italian armies in Northern Africa

    British and US defeat German and Italian armies in Northern Africa

  • Zoot Suit Roots- Los Angeles, California

    Zoot Suit Roots- Los Angeles, California

  • D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

    D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

  • Paris is retaken by Allied Forces

    Paris is retaken by Allied Forces

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    Last offensive of German Forces
  • U.S forces return to recapture the Phillipenes

    U.S forces return to recapture the Phillipenes

  • FDR dies, Harry S Truman becomes president

    FDR dies, Harry S Truman becomes president

  • V-E day, war ends in Europe

    V-E day, war ends in Europe

  • V-J day. Japan surrenders to allied forces

    V-J day. Japan surrenders to allied forces

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

    First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • War Crimes Trial held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila,Philippines, and Tokyo Japan

    War Crimes Trial held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila,Philippines, and Tokyo Japan