World war 2

Events That Led Up To World War II

By natguzma744

  • Adolf Hitler becomes dictator of Germany (1933)

    -Germans boycott Jewish goods.
    -The Nazi party becomes the official party of Germany.
    -Homeless, alcoholic, and unemployed sent to Nazi concentration camps.

  • 1934

    -Adolf Hitler makes himself Führer of Germany, becoming Head of State as well as Chancellor.
    -Members of the Wehrmacht begin swearing a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler instead of to the German constitution.

  • 1935

    -The Reichstag passes the Nuremberg Laws, introducing antisemitism in German legislation.
    -Italy invades Ethiopia, beginning the Second Italo–Abyssinian War.

  • 1936

    -In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland.
    -The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Japan and Germany. The signing parties agree to go to war with the Soviet Union if one of the signatories is attacked by the Soviet Union.
    -Hitler makes it mandatory for all males between the ages 10-18 to join the Hitler Youth.

  • 1937

    -U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt gives the Quarantine Speech outlining a move away from neutrality and towards "quarantining" all aggressors.
    -The USS Panay incident occurs, where Japan attacked the American gunboat Panay while she was anchored in the Yangtze River.

  • 1938

    -The Allison incident occurs further straining relations between Japan and the United States.
    -Austria is annexed by Nazi Germany.
    -U.S. President Roosevelt sends letter to German Führer Adolf Hitler seeking peace.[7]
    -The Munich Agreement is signed by Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. The agreement allows Germany to annex the Czechoslovak Sudetenland area in exchange for peace in an attempt to appease Hitler.
    -The Kristallnacht pogrom begins in Germany; many Jewish shops and synag

  • 1939

    -A uranium atom is split for the first time at Columbia University in the United States.
    -Adolf Hitler demands the return of the Free City of Danzig to Germany.
    -The United Kingdom and France offer a guarantee of Polish independence.
    -Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss, the codename for the attack on Poland, planned to be launched on August 25, 1939.
    -Sweden, Norway, and Finland reject Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.

  • 1939 continued. .

    -Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain reaffirms support for Poland and makes it clear that Britain did not view Free City of Danzig as being an internal German-Polish affair and would intervene on behalf of Poland if hostilities broke out between the two countries.
    -In response to a message from Mussolini that Italy will not honor the Pact of Steel if Germany attacks Poland, Hitler delays the launch of the invasion by five days to provide more time to secure British and French neutrality.

  • 1939 beginning of war.

    Without response to its ultimatum, Germany invades Poland, start of World War II.