World War 2

Mussolini and the Fascists come to power

Jan 1, 1922

Hitler and Nazi came to power in Germany

Jan 27, 1933

Neutrality Act passed in the U.S.

Aug 31, 1935

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Germany and USSR sign the Non-Aggression Pact

Aug 23, 1939

Germany invades Poland-Beginning of WW2

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Oct 6, 1939

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history/videos/germany-invades-poland

Battle of the Atlantic

Period: Sep 3, 1939 to May 7, 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-xzcwCZNF8

France falls to Germany

May 10, 1940

Rescue at Dunkirk

Period: May 26, 1940 to Jun 3, 1940

Formation of the Axis powers

Sep 27, 1940

Presidential Election of 1940

Nov 1, 1940

Rosie The Riveter campaign encourages women to get a job

Period: Feb 2, 1941 to Feb 2, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/rosie-the-riveter

Congress passes the lend lease act of 1941

Mar 1, 1941

Bombing of Pearl Harbor,Hawaii

Dec 7, 1941

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearl-harbor-bombed

Manhattan Project

Feb 2, 1942

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

Relocation of Japanese Americans to camps

Period: Feb 19, 1942 to Jun 30, 1946

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation/videos/japanese-internment-in-america

Bataan Death March

Apr 9, 1942

Battle of Midway Island

Jun 3, 1942

Battle of Midway Island

Jun 7, 1942

allied invasion/ Victory in the philippines

Period: Oct 20, 1944 to Aug 15, 1945

Prsidential Election of 1944

Nov 7, 1944

Battle of the Bulge

Period: Dec 16, 1944 to Jan 25, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history/videos/battle-bulge

Yalta Conference

Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference/speeches/franklin-d-roosevelt-reports-on-teheran-and-cairo-conferences

V-E Day

May 8, 1945

was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

D-Day Invasion

Jun 6, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day

Battle of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pxk4zy_SQw

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Aug 8, 1945

Surrender of Japan

Sep 2, 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsZ0qwJSbuQ

Formation of the United Nations

Oct 24, 1945

Formation of The United Nations

Oct 24, 1945