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H.G. first hour WWII timeline

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  • Hitler Becomes The Leader of the Nazi Party

  • Benito Mussolini is Appointed Prime Minister of Italy

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

  • Japan’s Army Seizes Manchuria, China

  • Hitler is Named Chancellor of Germany

  • First Neutrality Act

    Congress passes the first Neutrality Act to keep The U.S. out of foreign wars.

  • Italy Invades Ethiopia

  • Militarist Take Control of Japanese Government

  • Hitler Sends Troops into Rhineland of Germany

    Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

  • Japan Invades China

  • Japan’s Army Pillages Nanjing, China

    Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.

  • Munich Pact Signed

    Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany.

  • Nazis Begin Rounding Up Jews for Labor Camps

  • Roosevelt Announces-

    Roosevelt announces that the U.S. will remain neutral in war.

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact Signed By Hitler and Stalin

  • World War II Begins

    Germany invades Poland; World War II begins

  • Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control

  • Germany Invades France and Forces it to Surrender

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island.

  • First Peacetime Draft in U.S.

  • Battle of Britain Ends

  • The United States Join the War

    The U.S. enters the war after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

  • Hitler Breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and Invades

    Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR now joins England in fighting the Germans.

  • Churchill and FDR Issue the Atlantic Charter

  • Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

  • U.S. Navy Defeats the Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway

  • Britain Defeats German Forces in Egypt

  • Philippines Fall to the Japanese – Bataan Death March

  • Japanese Americans Interned in Isolated Camps

  • Russians Stop Nazi Advance at Stalingrad Save Moscow

  • British and US Forces Defeat German and Italian Armies in North Africa

  • Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

  • Italy Surrenders

    Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

  • Allied Troops Land in France on D-Day

  • D-Day Invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

  • Paris Retaken by Allies Forces

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces.

  • U.S. Forces Return to Recapture the Philippines

  • FDR Dies

    FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President.

  • V-E Day

    V-E Day, war ends in Europe.

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki

    Second atomic bomb dropped. To make Japan surrender.

  • World War II Ends

    One of the U.S.'s planes drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima; World War II ends. Also known a V-J Day.

  • First Atomic Bombs Dropped

  • German Leaders Convicted of War Crimes