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World War 2 Timeline
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1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
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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
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Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China
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Neutrality Act passed by US Congress
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Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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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
This gives the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
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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
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First time Peacetime Draft in US
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Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
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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
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Bataan Death March
Philippines fall to Japanese -
Battle of Midway
Turning point of war in the Pacific -
Italy Surrenders
Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister -
D- Day
Invasion of France at Noramandy by Allies -
Battle of the Bulge
Last offensive of German forces -
FDR Dies
Harry S. Truman becomes president. -
V-E Day, War ends in Europe
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First Atomic Bomb is dropped
The U.S. drop atomic bombs on Japan -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan
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Nueremberg War Crimes Trials
