World War 2

  • Japan

    Japan
    Japan conquers Manchuria, in northern China.
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    WW2

    By: Andrew Ciliberto
  • FDR

    FDR
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president.
  • Nazi Party

    Nazi Party
    The nazi party becomes the most powerful in Germany
  • Adolf Hitler

     Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler is appointed German chancellor and sets up Dachau concentration camp.
  • Prohibition

    Prohibition
    The prohibition ends with the creation of the 21st amendment.
  • Chinese

    Chinese
    Chinese communists flee in the Long March.
  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin
    Stalimn begins the great purge in USSR.
  • Ethiopia

    Ethiopia
    Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia asks the league of nations for help against a Italian invasion
  • Francisco Franco

    Francisco Franco
    General Francisco Franco leads a fascist rebellion in Spain.
  • FDR

    FDR
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt gets reelected.
  • Kristallnacht-Nazis

    Kristallnacht-Nazis
    Kristallnacht-Nazis riot, destroying Jewish neighborhoods.
  • Orson Welles

    Orson Welles
    Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds, A fictional allen invasion.
  • Germany

    Germany
    Germany siezes all of Czechoslavakia
  • Germany Invasion

    Germany Invasion
    Germany invades Poland, Britain and France declare war.
  • FDR third election

    FDR third election
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected for a third time.
  • Murder

    Murder
    Nazis begin mass murder of the Jews
  • HITLER

    HITLER
    Adolf Hitler invades the Soviet Union
  • A. Philip Randolph

    A. Philip Randolph
    A. Philip Randolph demands that war industries hire African Americans.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
  • US

    US
    The United Ttates enters the World War 2
  • FDR

    FDR creates the War Production Board to coordinate mobilization
  • Japan-American

    Japanese Americans are sent to relocation centers
  • Pacific

    In the Pacific, the battle of Midway turns the tide in favor of the allies.
  • Nazis

    The Nazis develop the "final solution" for exterminating Jews.
  • Rommel

    Rommel's forces surrender in North America
  • FDR's big number 4

    FDR is elected for a 4th term
  • The allies

    The allies launch a massive invasion of Europe
  • U.S

    The U.S marines take Iwo Jima.
  • Japan

    Japan surrenders after atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Nazi

    The nazi retreat begins after the Battke of the Bulge.