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Hilter Becomes Chancellor
Hitler becomes cnancellor of Germany. -
Mussolini Invades Ethiopia
Italy, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benita Mussolini, invades Ethiopia. -
Neutrality Act
President Franklin D. Roosevelt sings the 1937 Neutrality Act. Which bans travel on belligerent ships. Forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents and issues on arms embargo with warring nations -
Japan Defeats China
The Japanese defeats the Chinese forces in a clashnear Peking, taking control of North China. -
Roosevelt Limits Ships to Asia
Prsident Franklin D. Roosevelt forbids U.S. ships from carring arms to China or Japan. -
Roosevelt Quarantines War
In respones to Japanese action in China, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a speech in which he calls for peace-loving to act together to "quarantine" aggressors to protect the world from war. -
Attack on the Panay
Japanese warplanes dive-bomb the American gunboat PAnay in the Yangtze River in China. -
March of Time
Time Inc. releases an anit-Nazi progenanda newsreel entitled Marth of Time in Nazy Germany. -
World War II Actually Starts
War Offically Starts! -
Hitler Seizes Low Countries
Hilter takes neutral Denmark, Norway,Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels and killing 2,355 servicemen and 68 civilins -
D-Day
The first of nearly 3 million allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the Northern shores of France. -
World War II Ends
A formal surrender ceremony is conducted in Tokyo Bay on the U.S. battleship, Missouri.
