World War II

By crainboltforbes17

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) is elected president of the United States

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

  • German troops occupy the Rhineland.

  • Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact

  • Japan invades China

  • British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich

  • German troops occupy the Sudetenland

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • The Soviet Union invades Poland

  • The Soviet Union invades Finland

  • Italy invades southern France

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • The United States declares war on Japan

  • Allied troops liberate Rome

  • D-Day landings on the northern coast of France.

  • Allied troops reach Paris

  • Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • V-E (Victory in Europe) Day

  • Germany surrenders to the Soviets

  • First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • Second atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan

  • V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.

  • Nuremberg war crimes trials begin