World war 2 Timeline By gjpiston98 Jan 30, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party Period: Mar 20, 1921 to Mar 20, 1946 stat and end of world war 2 Mar 20, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy Jan 1, 1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR) Jun 22, 1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China Mar 21, 1933 1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany Apr 3, 1935 1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress Apr 5, 1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa Apr 5, 1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government Jun 8, 1936 1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty Jul 29, 1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people. Mar 11, 1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany Aug 11, 1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps Sep 1, 1939 1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany Dec 7, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin Apr 11, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control Apr 11, 1940 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender Apr 11, 1940 Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island Apr 18, 1940 First time Peacetime Draft in US Apr 18, 1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans Apr 18, 1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter Apr 18, 1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) Dec 7, 1941 1941, Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US Apr 18, 1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March Apr 18, 1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps Apr 18, 1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow Apr 18, 1942 1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific Apr 18, 1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa Apr 18, 1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
