Timeline of WWII and Its Impact

  • World War 1 ends with German defeat

  • League of Nations is founded

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nation Socialist (Nazi) Party

  • Germany is admitted in League of Nations

  • U.S. Stock Market Crashes

  • Franklin Roosevelt becomes president of the U.S.

  • Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • Germany leaves League of Nations

  • Germany and Soviet Russia sign non-agression pact

  • Germany Invades Poland

  • Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister