Significant Events Surrounding Hitler's

  • 1933

    1.Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt.
    2.First genuine US aircraft carrier named USS Ranger.
    3.Mount Rushmore unveiled.
    4.Japan leaves League of Nations.
    5.Paraguay declares war on Bolivia.
  • 1934

    1. USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
    2. Japan renounces Washington treaties of 1922 and 1930.
    3. King of Yugoslavia is assassinated.
    4. French Foreign Minister is assassinated.
  • 1935

    1. Persia changes its name to Iran.
    2. The Nuremberg Laws are passed against the Jews in Germany.
  • 1936

    1.Edward VIII becomes King of Britain.
    2.Edward VIII latest passes the throne to his brother George VI.
    3.Italy, Austria, and Hungary sign the Rome Pact.
    4. The Olympic Games are held in Berlin.
  • 1937

    1.Italy and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade Pact.
    2.The Japanese seize Beijing.
    3. Dictator of Iraq is assassinated.
    4.Italy leaves the League of Nations.
    5.Japanese planes sink the U.S. gunboat, Panay.
  • 1938

    1. Hungary annexes southern Slovakia.
    2. Japan installs a puppet government in China.
  • 1939

    1. The Spanish Civil War comes to an end.
    2. England and Poland sign a treaty.
    3. Italy invades Albania.
    4. Hungary leaves the League of Nations.
    5. Germany invades Poland, which starts World War 2.
  • 1940

    1. Winston Churchill becomes British prime minister.
    2. The Blitz (the bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between September 1940 and May 1941) begins in London.
  • 1941

    1. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
    2. The U.S. declares war on Japan, Germany, and Italy.
  • 1942

    1. The Battle of Midway occurs.
    2. Tokyo is bombed.
    3. U.S. prisoners of war suffer on the Bataan Death March in the Philippines.
  • 1943

    1. The Casablanca Conference between FDR and Churchill occurs.
    2. Italy surrenders to the invading Allies.
    3. Churchill, FDR, and Joseph Stalin all meet at Teheran.
    4. Famine sweeps Bengal.
  • 1944

    1. The first missile bomb (the V-1) is launched by Germany on London.
    2. Vietnam declares independence from France.
    3. Charles de Gaulle reclaims France from the Germans.
  • 1945

    1. Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
    2. Benito Mussolini is executed.
    3. FDR dies, Harry Truman takes office.
    4. United Nations is formed.
    5. U.S. drops atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
    6. WW2 ends for Europe.