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World War II Timeline

  • Japanese soldiers seized Manchuria

    Japanese soldiers seized Manchuria
  • Hitler announces creation of new air force

  • Hitler expands army from 100,000 to 500,000 members

  • Fascist Italy invades Ethiopia

  • Hitler sent troops to Rhineland which was, according to the Treaty of Versailles, a place Germans weren't allowed to have weapons or fortifications

  • Hitler and Mussolini had an agreement recognizing common political/economical interests

  • agreement between Hitler and Mussolini leads to alliance called Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Germany and Japan sign Anti-Cominterm Pact- promised common front against communism

  • Japan Attacks China

  • Hitler annexed Austria to Germany

  • Munich Conference

    France, Britain and Germany met in Munich
  • Lend Lease, US lent war materials to Great Britain

  • Germany signed nonagression pact with the Soviets

    Germany signed nonagression pact with the Soviets
  • Germany and Soviet Union signed Nazi non-agression pact- promised not to attack each other

  • Blitz krieg

    Hitler’s offensive, called Blitzkrieg, against Poland.
  • Germany invades Poland

  • Britain decalres war on Germnay

    Britain decalres war on Germnay
  • Hitler does Blitskreig against Norway and Denmark

  • France surrenders to Germany

  • Germans release major offensive by the Luftwaffe against Britain

  • Germany attacks Britain and fails

  • Hitler invades Soviet Union

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

  • Germans surrender

  • Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japenese surrender