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Japan conquers Manchuria, in northern China.
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By: Andrew Ciliberto
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president.
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The nazi party becomes the most powerful in Germany
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Adolf Hitler is appointed German chancellor and sets up Dachau concentration camp.
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The prohibition ends with the creation of the 21st amendment.
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Chinese communists flee in the Long March.
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Stalimn begins the great purge in USSR.
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Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia asks the league of nations for help against a Italian invasion
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General Francisco Franco leads a fascist rebellion in Spain.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt gets reelected.
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Kristallnacht-Nazis riot, destroying Jewish neighborhoods.
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Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds, A fictional allen invasion.
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Germany siezes all of Czechoslavakia
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Germany invades Poland, Britain and France declare war.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected for a third time.
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Nazis begin mass murder of the Jews
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Adolf Hitler invades the Soviet Union
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A. Philip Randolph demands that war industries hire African Americans.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
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The United Ttates enters the World War 2
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FDR creates the War Production Board to coordinate mobilization
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Japanese Americans are sent to relocation centers
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In the Pacific, the battle of Midway turns the tide in favor of the allies.
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The Nazis develop the "final solution" for exterminating Jews.
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Rommel's forces surrender in North America
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FDR is elected for a 4th term
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The allies launch a massive invasion of Europe
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The U.S marines take Iwo Jima.
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Japan surrenders after atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The nazi retreat begins after the Battke of the Bulge.
