Cuease of world war 2 Richar dHare

Fasct party rises to power in Italy

Period: Jan 1, 1919 to Dec 31, 1922

Nazi party rises to power in Germany

Period: Jan 8, 1919 to Jan 8, 1923

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

Mar 9, 1920

Nazi party is largest poltlcal party in Germany's Reichstag & Hitler becomes head of the German state

Period: Mar 9, 1920 to Mar 9, 1930

Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Mar 8, 1922

Hitler tries to overthrow German goverment, but fails and is imprisoned

Nov 1, 1923

japan's economy worsens as a result of the Great Depression

Mar 9, 1930

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

Mar 13, 1930

Japan's army seizes Manchuria (nothern China)

Mar 9, 1931

Japan's military takes over government

Period: Mar 9, 1931 to Mar 9, 1937

Mussolini & Italy invade Ethiopia

Oct 1, 1935

German troops invade the Rhineland

Mar 9, 1936

Hitler signs and alliance with Mussolini, forming the axis powers

Period: Mar 9, 1936 to Mar 9, 1937

Hitler annexes austria

Mar 9, 1938

Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia

Mar 9, 1938

FDR moves American Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor

Mar 13, 1938

Britain & France pledge aupport to poland in the event that it is invaded by Germany

Mar 31, 1939

Hitler invades poland - Bliyzkrieg

Sep 1, 1939

France & Great Britain declare war on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

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

Sep 9, 1939

Japan contrals most of eastern China

Mar 9, 1940

America First Committee forms to fight for American isolationism

Mar 13, 1940

Roosevelt is reelected to a third term

Mar 13, 1940

Sitzkrieg ends - Germany attacks Denmark & Norway

Apr 9, 1940

Japan signs neutrality pact with soviet union

Apr 13, 1940

Germany launches blitzkrieg on Belgium

May 10, 1940

Japan allies with Germany & Italy - Tripartite Pact

Sep 9, 1940

Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft in the nation's history - Selective Service Act

Sep 13, 1940

German begins bombing England / Battle of Britain

Dec 9, 1940

German raids on England end

Mar 9, 1941

Lend-Lease Act

Mar 13, 1941

Japanese forces occupy indochina; U.S. freezes Japan's American assest & cuts off trade

Nov 25, 1941

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

Dec 7, 1941

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

Dec 8, 1941

Germany & Italy declare war on the United States

Dec 11, 1941

German troops enter Paris & France surrenders

Period: Jun 14, 2012 to Jun 17, 2012