World War 2

By schroedeluk
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    From the rise of dictators, to the end of World War 2

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the German National Socialists

  • Benito Mussolini overthrows Italian government

  • Josef Stalin becomes sole dictator of Soviet Russia

  • Japan invades Manchuria, China

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

  • American Congress passes the Neutrality Act

  • Japanese militarists control government

  • Adolf Hitler send troops to the Rhineland, against Treaty of Versailles

  • Japan increases aggression againt China

  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews

  • Germany occupies Austria

  • Munich Pact gets signed

  • Germany occupies the Sudetenland

  • Germany takes over the rest of Czechoslovakia

  • Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin sign Non-Aggression Pact

  • Soviets invade Poland (east)

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Russia invades Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia

  • Nazis invade Poland (west)

  • Franklin Roosevelt gets reelected to a 3rd term of presidency

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany invades Netherlands, Luxemburg and Belgium

  • Churchill's famous speech

  • France surrenders to Germany

  • Battle of Britain

  • Roosevelt and Churchill sign Lend-Lease Program

  • Adolf Hitler breaks Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin

  • Japan invades French Indochina

  • Atlantic Cherter, Roosevelt and Churchill outlining wargoals

  • Germany invades Russia

  • Pearl Harbor

  • United States declare war on Japan

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • British troops push back Germany at El Alamein, Egypt

  • First U.S. troops land in Northern Africa

  • Zoot Suit Riots

  • General Dwight. D. Eisenhower defeats Erwin Rommel

  • Invasion of Sicily

  • Mussolini gets removed from office, Italy surrenders

  • D-Day

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • Battle of Iwo Jima

  • Russians invade Germany

  • Britain invades Germany

  • Battle of Okinawa

  • President Roosevelt dies from a stroke

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide, Germany surrenders

  • Official Victorie of the Allies, V-E Day

  • Atomic Bomb dropping on Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb droppping on Nagasaki

  • Japan officialy surrenders, V-J Day,

  • End of World War 2