-
Period: to
WW II period
From the events that led to war to the end of the war itself. -
Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi party.
Hitler's raise to total power starts taking place. This begins Germany's fascist and agressive policy. -
Benito Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy
After the March on Rome the Italian king Savoia, appointed B. Mussolini at the vertex of power in Italy, Mussolini now has total control and he's a dictator. Italy allies with Germany. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union
After the Civil War Stalin becomes the overall leader of the USSR. He is a dictator as well. -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
The Japanese mske their first move. It's the beginning of a series of victories. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler has obtained dictatorial powers over Germany. -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
The U.S. declare they'll completely stay out of the war. With this Act not only thay can't engage combat, they can't even trade weaponry with other countries. -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
-
Military leaders take control of Japanese Government
Japan passes under martial law-government. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany
Germany breaks the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, which was the peace treaty that ended WW I -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China
The unmatched Japanese invade Nanjing and massacre a quarter of a million people. -
Munich Pact signed
It gave the Sudetenland of Chechoslovakia to Germany -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
The Nazis abusing of Jews intenisfies. They start putting them in concetration camps, in which they are treated as slaves and killed in tremendously big numbers. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
Germany and URSS sign a pact in which they state they'll not attack each other. -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
Despite what Hitler thought, this time Britain and France take action and the declare war, even though they don't have the means to conduct one yet. -
Period: to
WW2
-
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium
Nazis sweep through and take control of the countries listed above. -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
-
Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
-
First time Peacetime Draft in US
-
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades
As a consequence, USSR joins England in fighting the Germans. -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
-
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
-
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
The U.S join the war -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
More than 70,000 prisoners are marched to an internment camp 60,000 miles away. During the march the weren't provided with food and they scarcely had any water, nearly half of them didn't survive the march and fewer survived the camp. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
-
Battle of Midway
Gamechanger of war in the Pacific -
Russians stop Nazi advance
Russians stop the Nazi at Stalingrad and save Moscow -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
-
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
-
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Minister
-
D-Day
Invasion of France at Normandy by Allies. One of the biggest military amphibian landings ever. An operation that counted about 155,000 soldiers of the Allied forces. Made possible thanks to leaked information onwhere the Nazis located their defenses. A huge gamechanger in World War 2. -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
-
Dec. Battle of the Bulge
Last offensive of German Forces -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
-
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
-
-
First Atomic Bombs dropped
-
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
-
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
