Pre-WWII and WWII

  • First Neutrality Act is passed

  • Signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact

  • German troops invade Czechoslovakia

  • Hitler declares Austria as part of the Third Reich

  • The Munich Conference is called

  • Mussolini invades Albania

  • German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed

  • Germany attacks Poland

  • The Soviet Union attacks Finland

  • Germans invade Denmark and Norway

  • Winston Churchill is named as Prime Minister of Great Britain

  • Germans invade the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg

  • Dunkerque is evacuated

  • Mussolini declares war on France and Great Britain

  • Period: to

    Battle of Britain

  • Japan forms an alliance with Germany and Italy

  • Erwin Rommel takes control of Libya

  • Germany attacks the Soviet Union

  • Roosevelt and Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter

  • Pearl Harbor is attacked

  • US Congress declares war on Japan

  • Wannsee Conference

  • Bataan Death March

  • Period: to

    Battle of Midway

  • Period: to

    Battle of Stalingrad

  • D-Day

  • MacArthur lands in the Philippines

  • V-E Day

  • Period: to

    Potsdam Conference

  • V-J Day