World war 2 timeline

Sammy Denoyer (World war 2 Timeline!

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party
  • Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
  • Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union

  • Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China

  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • Neutrality Act passes 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 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

  • Naziz invade denmark, Norway, The netherlands, luxembourg and belgium - Take Control

  • Germany invades france and forces it to surrender

  • Battle of Britain - Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their land

  • First time Peacetime draft in US

  • Hitler breaks pact with Stalin's Russia and invades - USSR now joins England in fighting the germans

  • Curchill 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 was on the US

  • Philippines fall to Japanese - Bataan Death March

  • Japanese Americansinterned in isolated camps

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

  • 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, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister.

  • 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 Erope

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to allied Forces

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