Causes of WWII Jacob Calko

Facist Party rises to power in Italy

Period: Jan 1, 1919 to Dec 31, 1922

Nazi Party rises to power in Germany

Period: Jan 1, 1919 to Dec 31, 1923

Japan, lacking land and natural resources, becomes land- hungary and looks to establish an empire

Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1929

Mussolini Appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Oct 1, 1922

Hitler tries to overthrow Germn Government, but fails and is imprisoned

Nov 1, 1923

Japan's ecnomy worsens as a result of the Great Depression

Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Dec 31, 1939

Japan's military takes over government

Period: Jan 1, 1931 to Dec 31, 1936

Japan's army siezes Manchuria (Northern China)

Period: Jan 1, 1931 to Dec 31, 1932

Nazi Party s the largest political party in Germany's Reichstag & Hitler Becomes head of the German State

Jan 2, 1933

America passes a series of Neutrality Acts saying that the US would withhold weapons & loans from all nations at war

Period: Jan 1, 1935 to Dec 31, 1937

america First Comittee forms to fight for American Isolationism

Period: Jan 1, 1935 to Dec 31, 1938

Mussolini & Italy invade Ethiopia

Oct 1, 1935

Hitler signs alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers

Jan 3, 1936

FDR moves American Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor

Period: Jan 1, 1938 to Dec 31, 1938

Hitler Annexes Austria

Mar 2, 1938

German Troops invade the Rhineland

Mar 9, 1938

Hitler demands the Sudetenland; Britain and France agree in the Munich Conference

Sep 12, 1938

Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia

Mar 14, 1939

Britain & France pledge support to Poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany

Mar 31, 1939

hitler invades Poland-Blitzkrieg

Sep 1, 1939

France & Great Britain declare war on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Japan controls most of Eastern China

Period: Jan 1, 1940 to Dec 31, 1940

Sitzkrieg ends- Germany attacks Denmark & Norway

Apr 9, 1940

germany launches blitzkrieg on Belgium

May 10, 1940

German troops enter Paris & France surrenders

Period: Jun 14, 1940 to Jun 17, 1940

Japan allies with Germany & Italy - tripartite Pact

Sep 7, 1940

Congess authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nations history-Selective Service Act

Sep 14, 1940

Roosevelt is reelected to third term

Nov 17, 1940

German begins bombing England/ Battle of Britain

Dec 13, 1940

Lend Lease Act

Mar 7, 1941

Japn signs neutrality pact with Soviet Union

Apr 17, 1941

Japan forces occupy Indochina; U.S. freezes Japan's American assets & cut off trade

Jul 14, 1941

Japanese fleet begins moving toward Southeast Asia; US demands that Japan withdraw from Tripartite Pact

Nov 25, 1941

American Military base, Pearl Harbor, is attacked by Japanese warplanes

Dec 7, 1941

United States declares war on Japan

Dec 8, 1941

Germany & Italy declare war on United States

Dec 11, 1941

German raids on England end

Dec 28, 1941