Ww11

World War 2

By baileyrei69

  • HItler becomes leader of the NAZI Party

    HItler becomes leader of the NAZI Party

  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

  • Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

    Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

  • Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

    Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • 935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

    935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

  • 1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

    1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

    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

  • 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.

  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

    Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

    Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

    Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

  • Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

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

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

    Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

  • Period: to

    North African Campaign

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

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

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

    Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

  • First time Peacetime Draft in United States

    First time Peacetime Draft in United States

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

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

  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

    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

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

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

    Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

  • Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March

    Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
  • Period: to

    Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

    Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

  • Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

    Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

  • Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister

    Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister

  • 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
  • Period: to

    Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces

  • US forces return to recapture the Philippines

    US forces return to recapture the Philippines

  • FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

    FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

  • V-E Day, war ends in Europe

    V-E Day, war ends in Europe

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

    First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

    V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
  • Period: to

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