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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
VideoOn this date Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party from then on he became one of the worst leaders in the world. Heres the video of Adolf Hitler. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Mussoluni was a Journalist, Politican, and leader of the National Fascist Party. Mussoluni ruled as Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 until outsing in 1943. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Stalin was dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin's control the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. -
1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg was the one that named hitler Chancellor of Germany. Hindenburg, intimidated by Hitler's growing popularity -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Italian Army Invades Ethiopia in Africa
It was a brief colonial war that is also remembered in history as the second Italo-Abyssinian war. -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
THe reason why Militarist leaders took over Japanese goverment is because they diddn't prove themselves that they can provide better life for the Japanese. -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in Violation of the Versailes Treaty
Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers. -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
The nazi's began geting the jews for the labor camps. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
The Nazi-Soviet pact guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
That was the start of world war ll. -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
Germany had a code name for their assualt on Denmark and Norway, it was Operation Weserübung. -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb, German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes to cut off and surround the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium. -
Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
The draft was also commonly known as conscription in the united states. -
18. Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
The pact that hitler broke was the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
Beginning in May 1941, the Viet Minh, a communist army led by Ho Chi Minh, began a revolt against French rule known as the First Indochina War. -
21. Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9
Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
The insolated camps had over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
Russuians Saved Moscow from the Nazi's invading them. -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
Bataan Death March began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. Mexican Americans and white military personnel were the main parties in the riots, and some African American and Filipino/Filipino American youths were involved as well. -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
That is where they first faught when we entered the war. -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” -
1944 Aug. - Paris retaken by Allies Forces
As late as August 11, nine French Jews were arrested by the French police in Paris. -
Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
1945 Jan. – US forces return to recapture the Philippines
In January U.S forces return to recapture the Phillippines. -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
1945 May 8th - V-E Day, war ends in Europe
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day or VE Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
1945 Aug. - First Atomic Bombs dropped
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
Many people were getting arrested from these crimes. -
1945 Aug. 14th – V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
