World War 2

Mussolini and the Fascists come to Power in Italy

Oct 31, 1922

Mussolini was appointed prime minister of Italy.

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Sep 19, 1931

Seeking raw materials to fuel its growing industries Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria

Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party.

Neutrality Acts Passed in U.S

Aug 31, 1935

Tried to keep the U.S out of war/ making it illegal for Americans to transport war materials to belligerent nations

Munich Conference

Sep 30, 1938

Settlement between Germany, Britain,France, and Italy that permitted Germany annexation of Sudetenland.

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Night or broken glass/ Night the Nazis killed or injured many jews and destroyed many jewish properties.

Germany and the USSR sign the Non-Aggression Pact

Aug 23, 1939

Germany and Soviet Union agree to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years

Germany invades Poland/WW2 Begins

Sep 1, 1939

German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler invade Poland

Battle of Atlantic

Sep 3, 1939

Struggle between the Allied and German forces for cotrol of the Atlantic ocean

Formation of the Axis powers

Sep 27, 1939

Germany, Italy and Japan become allies

France Falls to Germany

May 10, 1940

Germany invasion of France

Rescue at Dunkirk

May 27, 1940

The evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches harbor of Dunkirk, in the North of France

Presidential election of 1940

Nov 5, 1940

Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes U.S president

Congress passes the Lend Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

Allowed the U.S to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed , vital to the defense of the U.S

Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawii

Dec 7, 1941

Japanese drop bombs on U.S naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Relocation of Japanese Americans to camps

Mar 18, 1942

established by FDR people of Japanese decent interred in isolated camps

Bataan Death March

Apr 9, 1942

Japanese forced 76,000 POW's to march about 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula

Battle of Midway Island

Jun 3, 1942

U.S navys victory against Japan in air-sea battle

Rosie the Riveter campaign encourages women

May 29, 1943

Add campaign that aimed at recruiting female workers

D-Day Invasion

Jun 6, 1944

Allied forces of , Britain, America, Canada, and France attack German forces on the coast of Normandy, France

Presidential election of 1944

Oct 7, 1944

Franklin Roosevelt reelected U.S president

Allied Invasion/ Victory in Philippines

Oct 20, 1944

U.S navay destroys the remainder of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Battle of Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

German forces launched a suprise attack on Allied forces in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

At Yalta,After Germanys surrender, The Big Three agreed that Germany would be divided into four post-war occupation zones

V-E Day

May 8, 1945

Germany Surrenders/ End of World War 2 in Europe

Manhattan Project

Jul 16, 1945

The first research and development that produced the first nuclear weapons

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

U.S dropped two nuclear weapons over Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki / between 150,000 and 75,000 deaths

Surrender of Japan

Aug 14, 1945

Surrender of Imperial Japan

Formation of United Nations

Oct 25, 1945

Created at the end of WW2 as a international peacekeeping organization between nations.