World War II

By GuyJohnson
  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party.

    Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party.

  • Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy.

    Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy.

    Date is unknown.
  • Josef Stalin sole dictator of Soviet Union (USSR)

    Josef Stalin sole dictator of Soviet Union (USSR)

    Date is unknown.
  • Japan's army seizes Manchuria, China

    Japan's army seizes Manchuria, China

    Date is unknown
  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

    Exact date is unknown

  • Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

    Exact date is unknown

  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

    Exact date is unknown.

  • Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty

    Exact date is unknown.

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

    Exact date is unknown

  • Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

    Exact date is unknown

  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

    Exact date is unknown

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

    Exact date is unknown

  • Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

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

    Exact date unknown

  • Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

    Exact date is unknown

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

    exact date unknown

  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

    Exact date is unknown

  • Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans

    Exact date is unknown.

  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

    Exact date is unknown

  • Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

    Exact date is unknown

  • Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan.

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the US.

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

    Exact date is unknown

  • Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March

    Exact date is unknown

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

    Exact date is unknown
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    Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific

  • British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

    Exact date is unknown

  • Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

    Exact date is unknown.

  • Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

    Exact date is unknown, but it is in the month of July.

  • D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

  • Paris retaken by Allies Forces

    Exact date is unknown, but is in the month of August.

  • Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces

    Exact date is unknown, but it is in the month of December.

  • US forces return to recapture the Philippines

    Exact date is unknown.

  • FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

  • V-E Day, war ends in Europe

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

    Exact date is unknown, but it is in the month of August.

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

    V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

  • War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.

    Exact date is unknown

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