Main Causes of World War ll timeline

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party

Apr 17, 1921

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party

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Period: Apr 17, 1921 to Apr 17, 1946

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Apr 17, 1922

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union

Apr 17, 1929

Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

Apr 17, 1931

Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

Apr 17, 1933

Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

Neutrality Act passed by US Congress

Apr 17, 1935

Neutrality Act passed by US Congress

Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

Apr 17, 1935

Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

Militarist take control of Japanese Government

Apr 17, 1936

Militarist take control of Japanese Government

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

Apr 17, 1936

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

Apr 17, 1937

Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

Apr 17, 1938

Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

Apr 17, 1938

Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

Sep 1, 1939

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

Apr 17, 1940

Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

Apr 17, 1940

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

Apr 17, 1940

First time Peacetime Draft in US

Apr 17, 1940

Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

Apr 17, 1941

Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US

Apr 17, 1941

Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

Apr 17, 1942

Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March

Apr 17, 1942

Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

Apr 17, 1942

Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific

Apr 17, 1942

British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

Apr 17, 1943

Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

Apr 17, 1943

Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

Jul 17, 1943

D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

Jun 17, 1944

Paris retaken by Allies Forces

Aug 17, 1944

Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces

Dec 17, 1944

FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

Apr 16, 1945

US forces return to recapture the Philippines

Apr 17, 1945

V-E Day, war ends in Europe

May 8, 1945

V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

Aug 14, 1945

First Atomic Bombs dropped

Aug 17, 1945

war crimes trails held in nuremburg germany;Manila philippines and tokyo japan.

Apr 17, 1946