-
-
Hitler's emergence as chancellor was a huge turning point for Germany. His plan was to get rid of politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.
-
The "quarantine" speech which President Roosevelt made in Chicago, is generally assumed to have been a landmark in our foreign policy, showing the point at which the President made the decision to take a strong stand against the Axis powers.
-
In the United States, popular support for American action against Japan far exceeds support for action against Nazi Germany.
(I could not find the specific day, the 1st is not the correct date.) -
In a speech in Rome, Benito Mussolini, fascist leader of Italy, promises to fight the democracies alongside Adolf Hitler's should war break out.
-
Adolf Hitler takes neutral Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg.
-
Benito Mussolini's Italian forces attack France from the south.
-
Germany invades the Soviet Union violating the Nonaggression Pact. U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson estimates that it will take Hitler less than three months to conquer the Soviet Union.
-
Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels, and killing 2,355 U.S. servicemen and 68 civilians.
-
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Casablanca in North Africa to plan attacks on all fronts, to invade Sicily and Italy, to send forces to the Pacific, and to better aid the Soviet Union.
