World War 2

By maxbauerch
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    World War 2 Timeline

  • 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party

    1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party

    This takes place in post-World War 1 Germany
  • Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Forced KIng to appoint him prime minister after his Fascist Party "the black shirts" march on Rome to demand control of the government.
  • Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union

    Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union

    Also known as the (USSR)

  • Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China

  • Neutrality Act passed by US Congress

  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • Hitler sends troops into the Rhinelands of Germany

    Doing this violates the Versailles Treaty

  • Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China

    This is the massacre of a quarter of a million people
  • The Munich Pact is signed

    The Munich Pact is signed

    This gives the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

    Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • Nazi Germany invades Poland - World War ll begins

    Germany uses the "blitzkrieg" lightning war tactic and rapidly over run the Poland countryside.

  • Nazis Invade Poland

    Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Nazis invade more countries

    These include Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium.

  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

  • Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
    https://youtu.be/G4BVzYGeF0M

  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

  • Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

    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

  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    Philippines fall to Japanese
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Turning point of war in the Pacific

  • Italy Surrenders

    Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister
  • D- Day

    D- Day

    Invasion of France at Noramandy by Allies

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Last offensive of German forces
  • FDR Dies

    FDR Dies

    Harry S. Truman becomes president.

  • V-E Day, War ends in Europe

  • First Atomic Bomb is dropped

    First Atomic Bomb is dropped

    The U.S. drop atomic bombs on Japan

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

    This is after the bombs are dropped

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

  • Nueremberg War Crimes Trials