World War 2 time line

By Kaleymik74

  • 1921, Jan. 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

  • 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • 1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

  • 1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

  • 1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • 1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • 1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

  • 1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

  • 1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government

  • 1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government

  • 1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.

  • 1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

  • 1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

  • 1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • 1940 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

  • 1940 Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

  • 1940 First time Peacetime Draft in US

  • 1940 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control