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