Main Causes of WWll

By Emma Marriott
  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi Party

    dolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party
  • Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party
  • Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

    Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

    oseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
  • Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

    Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

    The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931

  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

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

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

  • Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

  • Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

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

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

  • 22 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

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

  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

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

  • Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9

  • Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

  • Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific

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

  • Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

  • Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

  • D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

  • Paris retaken by Allies Forces

  • Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces

  • US forces return to recapture the Philippines

  • FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

  • V-E Day, war ends in Europe

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

  • War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.

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