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World War II Timeline

By Katelyn Steimel
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    World War II

  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi party

    Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi party

  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy.

  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin is sole dictator of the Soviet Union

  • Japan's Army Seizes Manchuria, China

  • Adolf Hitler is named the Chancelor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler is named the Chancelor of Germany

  • Neutrility Acts passed by the U.S. Congress

  • Italian army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

  • Hitler sends troops into Rhineland in Germany in violation of the Verasllies treaty

  • Japan's army pillages Nanjija, China

    Japan massacred a quarter of a million people.

  • Munich Pact signed

    It gave Sudetenland of Czech. to Germany

  • Nazi's begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • Nazi-soviet pact signed between Hitler and Stalin

    Nazi-soviet pact signed between Hitler and Stalin

  • Nazi's invade Poland:France and Britain declare war on Germany

  • Nazi's invade Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands: Luxembourg and Belgium take control

  • Germany invades France and forces them to surrender

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island.

  • First Time Peacetime Draft in US

  • Hitler breaks his pact with Salin's Russia and invades

    USSR wich now joins England in fighting the Germans

  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

  • Japenese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

  • Pearl Harbour Attack

    Pearl Harbour Attack

    Pearl Harbour in Hawaii was attacked by Japenese Naval and Air Forces, US declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the United States

  • Phillipines fall to Japanese Bataan Death March

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

    Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

  • Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific

  • British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

  • British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

    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

  • Paris retaken by Allies Forces

  • Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces

  • US forces return to recapture the Philippines

  • FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

    FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

  • V-E Day, war ends in Europe

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

    First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

  • War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.

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