World War II

By apolvere2

  • Japan seizes Manchuria

    Japan military leaders and ultranationalists though that Japan should have an empire equall to those of the Western powers.

  • Neutrality Act

    The United States Congress passed the Neutrality Acts.

  • The Axis powers are formed

    Britain, France, and the United States, Germany, Italy and Japan formed what became known as the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis ( THE AXIS POWERS)

  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles

    Hitler sent troops into the "demilitarized Rhineland bordering France.

  • Ethiopia is conquered by Italy

    Ethiopia appealed to the League of Nations for help, but the League had no power to enforce sanctions, and by early 1936, Italy had conquered Ethiopia.

  • Western democracies adopted policies of Appeasement

    The Western democracies gave in to Hitler to keep peace

  • Trouble in Spain

    a local struggle in Spain polarized public opinion throughout Europe. The trouble began in 1931, when popular unrest against the old order forced the king to leave Spain. A republic was set up with a new, more liberal constitution

  • Francisco Franco

    Franco led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war.

  • German air raid

    In Guernica, a small spanish market, was air raided by Germany. German planes dropped loads of bombs and then swooped low to machine- gun anyone who survived.

  • Second Sino-Japanese War

    Japanese armies overran much of eastern China starting the war.

  • Italy invaded Ethiopia

    Ethipians resisted bravely, their outdated weapons were no match for Mussolini's tanks, machine guns, poison gas, and airplanes.

  • Anschluss

    Hitler was ready to engineer the union of Austria and Germany

  • appeasement was chosen

    At the Munich Conference British and French leaders again chose appeasement. They caved into Hitler's commands.

  • Hitler broke his promise

    Hitler broke his promises and gobbled up the rest of Czechoslovakia.

  • Franco had triumphed

    Franco created a facist dictatorship simliar to the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Hitler stunned the worls by announcing a nonaggression pact with his great enemy - Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator

  • Germany invades Poland

    German forces invade Poland a week after the Nazi-Soviet Pact

  • Bataan Death March

    the Japanese had gained control of the Philippines, killing several hundred American soldiers and as many as 10,000 Filipino soldiers during the 65-mile Bataan Death March

  • V-E Day

    Officially, the war in Europe ended the next day,

  • The Manhattan Project

    the first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico

  • Atomic bombs on Hiroshima

    the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima after the Japanese would not surrender.