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Worl War 2

By Calebcorwin
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    World War 2/ RHODES

  • Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

  • Bennito Mussolini becomes prime minister of Italy

  • Japans army seizes Mussolini, China

  • Hitler is named chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is named chancellor of Germany

  • neutrality acts passed by the U.S. Congress

  • Italian army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of germany in violation of the versailles treaty

    Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of germany in violation of the versailles treaty

  • militarist take control of Japenese Government

  • Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a 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

  • Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

  • Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control

  • Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

  • Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans

  • Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

    Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

  • Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US -

  • Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

  • Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacif

  • 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

    D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

  • Paris retaken by Allies Forces

  • Paris retaken by Allies Forces

  • 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 Europe

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

    First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

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