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Germany
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party. -
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World War II
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Italy
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy. -
USSR
Josef Stalin becomes dictator of the USSR. -
China
Japanese invade Manchuria. -
Germany
Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany. -
United States
The United States Congress passes the Neutrality Acts. -
Ethiopia
The Italian Army invades Ethiopia. -
Japan
Militarist take control of Japan. -
Germany
Adolf Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty. -
China
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people. -
Germany
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps. -
Germany
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. -
USSR
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin. -
Poland
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Europe
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. -
France
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender. -
England
Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of England. -
United States
First time Peacetime Draft in the United States.. -
USSR
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades the USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans. -
United States
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt issue the Atlantic Charter. -
French Indochina
Japanese invade French Indochina. -
United States
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan. -
Europe
Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. -
Philippines
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March. -
Midway Island
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific. -
USSR
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow. -
United States
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps.
