Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
h Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
First time Peacetime Draft in US
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
1941, Dec. 7 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
Battle of 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 Min.
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
1944 Aug. - Paris retaken by Allies Forces
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
1944 Dec. 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
1946 War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
