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Kwantung Army of Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria after the Mudken Incident. Japan established puppet state called Manchuko, that occupation lasted until the end of World War II
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Border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland, that December gave Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting atribitration offers.
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Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, which bans travel of belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring nations.
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Last incident was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident that marked the beginning of Total War between both countries.
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Japanese warplanes dive bomb the American gunboat, Panay, in the Yangtze River in China. Japan apologizes and pays reparations for the lives lost.
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Austrian Nazi's conspired for the second time in 4 years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.
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Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted Germany from annexing Sudentenland in western Czechoslovakia.
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Passenger ship, St. Louis, containing 907 Jewish refugees, begins its journey back to Europe after th United States refuses permission to dock.
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Suprisingly, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adofl Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II has begun!
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Congress grants Roosevelt's request to revise neutrality laws to repeal an arms embargo so that muntions could be sold to Britain and France, and prevent U.S. ships form sailing in war zones.
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Takes neutral countries like Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg.
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Air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during te summer and autumn of 1940.
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Agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan. Defensive military alliance that was eventually was joined by Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu. 20 America naval vessels, including 8 battleships, and almost 200 airplanes were destroyed.
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After devestating attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt request, recieves a declaration of war against Japan.
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Six months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy decisevly defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, inflictinnng damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable.
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Major battle in Word War II in which Nazi Germany and its Allies fought the Soviet Union for the control of the city Stalingrad in Southern Russia, eastern border of Europe.
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Gen. Eisenhower pubicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies. Germany reacted to it with Operation Axis, the Aliies with Operation Avalanche.
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Largest seaborne invasion in history, thw operation began the invasion of German- occupied western Europe, which led to the liberation of France from Nazi control, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.
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After more than 4 years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. Infantry Division. German Resistance was light, and General Dietrich von Choltiz, defied an order by Hitler to blow up Paris landmarks
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Killed himself by gunshot in his Furhrerbunker in Berlin. With his wife Eva that also committed suicide by cyanide.
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Public holiday celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies in World War II of Nazi's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Thus making te end of World War II!
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"Little Boy" was the name for the type of atomic bomb dropped on Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was the first atomic bomb used in warfare. Dropped by the U.S.
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Codenamed "Fat Boy" for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States. This and "Little Man" were the only atomic bombs used.
