Ww11

World War 11

By vanhorndes79
  • Period: to

    World War 11

    Timespan of ww11
  • Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
  • Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
  • Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

    Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

    1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
  • 1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

    1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

    Japans army attacks China.
  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

    Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

    1935, Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa.
  • Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

    Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

    1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

    Militarist take control of Japanese Government

    1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government
  • 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

    1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
  • Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.

    Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.

    1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
  • 1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

    1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

    1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

    Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

    1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

    Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

    1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
  • Nazis invade Portland; Britain and France declare war on Germany.

    Nazis invade Portland; Britain and France declare war on Germany.

    September first, 1939-Nazis invade Portland; Britain and France declare war on Germany.
  • Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, and Belgium.

    Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, and Belgium.

    Takes control.
  • Battle of Britian

    Battle of Britian

    Royal airforce defeats German airforce to prevent invasion of their island
  • Germany invades France and forces it to surrender.

    Germany invades France and forces it to surrender.

    Germany invades France.
  • Peacetime draft in US

    Peacetime draft in US

    First time peacetime draft
  • Hitler breaks pact

    Hitler breaks pact

    Hitler breaks pact with stalins Russia and invades
    Joins England
  • Churchill

    Churchill

    Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic charter
  • Japanese invade French indochina.

    Japanese invade French indochina.

    (viet. Laos, Cambodia)
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Attacked by Japanese naval air forces, US declares war on France.
  • Phillipines fall to jail Japanese

    Phillipines fall to jail Japanese

    Bataan death March
  • Russians so nazis

    Russians so nazis

    Stalingard save Moscow
  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

    Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

    Isolated camps

  • Battle of midway

    Turning point of war in the Pacific.
  • Us defeats German and Italy army.

    Us defeats German and Italy army.

    North Africa
  • Zoom suit riot.

    Zoom suit riot.

    Los Angeles California
  • Italy surrenders

    Italy surrenders

    Mussolini dismissed as prime minister.
  • D-day invasion

    D-day invasion

    Invasion of France at Normandy by allies
  • Paris retaken

    Paris retaken

    Taken by allies forces
  • 1944 Dec. Battle of the Bulge

    1944 Dec. Battle of the Bulge

    Last offensive of German Forces
  • US forces return

    US forces return

    recapture the Philippines
  • FDR dies

    FDR dies

    Harry S. Truman becomes President
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    war ends in Europe
  • Atomic bombs

    Atomic bombs

    First atomic bombs dropped.
  • -V-J Day

    -V-J Day

    Japan surrenders to allied forces.
  • War crimes trials

    War crimes trials

    Held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.