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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi party
This was the year Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party and President Paul von Hindenburg had made this choice. Hindenburg was very intimidated of Hitlers growing population and decided to appoint General Kurt von Schleicher to make Hitler chancellor. This was a turning point for germany when Hitler had became chancellor because he wanted to do away with politics and make germans powerful. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini rose to power in World War 1 as a leader in facism, he forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became the Prime minister of 1922 -
Joseph Stalin, the sole dictator
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. -
Japan's Army seized Manchuria, China
Japan was getting very over-crowded, because of limited space and increasing of the population. Though Manchuria offered japan a 200,000 square kilometers of space, which would control any over spilling population. -
The Neutrality Act
Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the exports of arms and ammunition and implements of war. This made it so that any arm was produced from the United States and no other. -
Italo-Ethiopian War
A war of armed conflict, which resulted in the Italian rule of Ethiopia. This was a war of ineffectiveness of the League of Nations. The Italians had failed before at ruling Ethiopia but the border between the two gave Benito Mussolini an excuses to intervene. -
Militarism takes control of japanese government
Military always had a strong influence on the japanese but most of the leaders in japan were samurai and only thought highly because they had a set of values and standeds on the outlook on japan. A policy was built to protect japan and make a strong military for japans defence against outside power. -
Hitlers disagreement with The Treaty of Versailles
Adolf Hitler had violated the Treaty of Versailles and locarno pact by sending german troops or military forces into Rhineland, which was located by the Rhine river along the western part of Germany. -
Invasion on Poland. The beginning of WW2
On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland. The polish army was defeated in just a few weeks, this is because the german were heavly armed with 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes. Soon they broke through Polands borders. -
Germany invaded Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium and France
The British had no interest in the Germany, they violated Norwegian neutrality by laying ocean mines on the shipping channel that was the germans and was bringing iron ore from Sweden. Hitler already had a plan to take Norway but while the british were laying mines places the Nazi forces were on there way to Norway. ONe month later Hitler sends troops to Belgium and The Neterlands without forwarning. -
Battle of Britain
On july 1, 1940 the german decide to attack Great Britain, by beginning the first long series of bombing raids. Britain knew that they probably had no chance but what the british had that the german didn't, made a huge difference. The british had a radar system, which would prevent the german from secretly attacking, they also produced superior quilty aircraft. -
Germany invades France
The Germans concentrate their attack through Luxembourg and the Ardennes Forest near the French city of Sedan. German tanks and infantry burst through the French defensive lines and advance to the coast, trapping the British and French armies in the north. -
First time Peacetime Draft in the U.S.
Frankin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service and Training Act , which requires all male citizens between the ages of 26 and 35 to register for the military draft. Beginning in October 16, the act had been passed by congress 10 days later. -
Invasion of the Societ Union
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Germany had one of the largest military operations in WW2. After, less than two years later the Soviet Pact was signed. -
Hitler breaks the Pact with Stalin's Russia and invades
Two days later, on September 3, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. World War II had begun.And less than two years after that, Hitler scrapped his pact with Stalin and sent some 3 million Nazi soldiers pouring into the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. -
Japanese invasion of French Indochina
To prepare for an invasion of the Dutch East Indies, some 140,000 Japanese troops invaded southern Indochina on 28 July 1941. Japanese forces remained in Indochina until the end of World War II. -
Churchill and FDR issue in Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
Pearl Harbor attack from Japan
On December 7, 1941 Japanese fighter planes attacked American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Japan managed to distroy 20 naval vessels, eight battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 American soldiers died and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. -
Bataan Death March
During this time, Filipinos amd American troops were surrendered and soon rouded up by the japanese. They were forced to march at the most 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando. Throughout this march, there was intense heat and abusive captors. -
Battle of Midway
This war/battle was one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War 2. During the sea and air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four japanese aircraft carriers, while only losing one for them. -
Bombing in Stalingrad
This was the first time a bombing happened in Stalingrad. The war was fought between the Soviet Union and the Nazi's, but this was one of the wars that made a turning point in World War 2. Both sides had a huge loss and suffered, Germany suffered the heaviest loss. After there were no further more german victories on the Eastern Front in the entire war. -
The North African Campaign
This campaign started in June of 1940 and carried on for three years, of the Axis and Allied forces pushed each other back and forth across the desert. Libya, Italy and british forces were neighboring Egypt. But Italy had declared war on Egypt, British and Indian forces captured 130,000 Italians. Several long, brutal pushes back and forth across Libya and Egypt which reached a turning point in the second battle of El Alamein in late 1942 -
Military Operations in North America
Between September 13, 1940 and May 13, 1943, the North African military had made important strategically for both Western allies and the Axis Powers. The Axis powers aimed to deprive the Allies of access to the Middle Eastern oil suppies. -
Zoot Suit Riots
This was a conflict between American servicemen stationed in Southern California and Mexican American youths. -
Mussolini fails from power
Benito Mussolini was fascist dictator of italy, he was voted out by power from his own grand council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele, who tells him that the war was lost. -
Codenamed Operation Overload
This war began on June 6, 1944 and was also known as the D-day. When 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50 mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy Region. -
Paris retaken by Allied Forces
German resistance melted away during the night. Most of the 20,000 troops surrendered or fled, and those that fought were quickly overcome. On the morning of August 25, the 2nd Armored Division swept clear the western half of Paris while the 4th Infantry Division cleared the eastern part. Paris was liberated. -
Battle of Bulge
On this day, the Germans launched the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Adrennes offensive and the Battle of the Bulge. This battle was not mistaken because the German were losing, and losing very fast. -
Bataan Recaptured
The Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines is occupied by American troops, but on February 16th, the 8th army occupied the southern tip of Bataan, as MacArthur drew closer to Manila and the complete recapture of the Philippines. -
FDR dies
On this day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge still fighting a Second World War and in possession of a weapon of terrifying powers. -
V-E Day, The war ends in Europe
This day is known as the V day or V-E day because it was simply the public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptence by the Allies of World War 2 of Nazi Germany surrender of its armed forces, It then marked the end of World War 2. -
First Atomic Bomb
During World War 2 and american B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the japanese city of Hiroshima. -
V-J Day, Japanese surrender to Allied forces
On August 14, 1945 it was announced that japan had surrendered to the Allies effectively ending the World War 2. Sense then on August 14v and 15 have been known as the victory day or Japan Day. -
War crimes in Germany
In Tokyo, Japan, the International Military Tribunals for the Far East begins hearing the, Unlike the Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals, where there were four chief prosecutors, Austro-German forces drive Russians out of the Carpathians.
