Causes of WW||

By CarlyElsen
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    Fascist Party to power in Italy

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    Nazi party rises to power in Germany

  • Japan, lacking land and natural resources, become land-hungry and looks to establish an empire

  • Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • Hitler tries to overthrow German government, but fails and is imprisoned

  • Japan's economy worsens as a result of the Great Depression

  • Japan's army seizes Manchuria (northern China)

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    Japans military takes over government

  • Nazi Party is the largest political party in Germany's Reichstag & Hitler becomes head of teh German state

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    Ameriac passes a series of Nutrality Acts saying that the US would withhold weapons and loans from all nations at war

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    Ameriac passes a series of Nutrality Acts saying that the US would withhold weapons and loans from all nations at war

  • Mussolini & Italy invade Ethiopia

  • Hitler signs and alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers

  • Hitler annexes Austria

  • German troops invade the Rhineland

  • FDR moves American Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor

  • Hitler demands the Sudetenland; Britain and France agree in the Muinich Confrence

  • Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia

  • britain and France pledge support to Poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany

  • Hitler invades Poland-Blitzkrieg

  • France and Great Britan declare war on Germany

  • Japan cnotrols most of eastern China

  • America First Committee forms to fight for American isolationism

  • Sitzkrieg ends - Germany attacks Denmark and Norway

  • Germany launches blitzkrieg on Belgium

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    German troops enter Paris and France surrenders

  • Japan allies with Germanyand Italy- Trioartite Pact

  • Congress athorizes the first peacetime draft in the nations history- Selective Service Act

  • Roosevelt is reelected to a third term

  • Germany begins bombing England / Battle of Britain

  • Lend-Lease Act

  • Japan signs nutrality pact with Soviet Union

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    Japanese forses occupy Indonisia; U.S. freezes Japan's American assets and cuts off trade

  • Japanese fleete begins moving twoard Southeast Asia; U.S. demands that Japan withdraw from Tripartite Pact

  • German raids on England end

  • Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japanese warplanes

  • United States declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Italy declares war on the United States