World War Student Choice Project

  • The Great Depression Begins

    The Great Depression Begins

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor

  • Mussolini invades Ethiopia

    Mussolini invades Ethiopia

  • Japan defeats China

    Japan defeats China

  • Roosevelt limits ships to Asia

    Roosevelt limits ships to Asia

    President Roosevalt forbids US ships from carrying arms into China or Japan
  • Mussolini joins Hitler

    Mussolini joins Hitler

    During a speech in Rome, Mussolini agrees to fight the democracies along Hitlers side if war should break out.
  • Hitler aims for Sudetenland

    Hitler aims for Sudetenland

    Hitler says he is going to invade and conquer the Sudetenland region of Czechoslavakia
  • Hitler promises peace

    Hitler promises peace

    Hitler, in return for the Sudetenland, promises to leave the rest of Czechoslavakia alone.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    This is when the official beginning of the war started.
  • Britain and France declare war

    Britain and France declare war

  • Germany invades Soviet Union

    Germany invades Soviet Union

  • Pearl Harbor.

    Pearl Harbor.

  • US at war

    US at war

    Germany and Italy declare war on United States. United States declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan.
  • D Day

    D Day

  • FDR dies.

    FDR dies.

  • Mussolini dies.

    Mussolini dies.

    Italian insurgents capture him, murder him, and mutilate his body.
  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders

  • Victory in Europe

    Victory in Europe

  • Japan signs the surrender agreement

    Japan signs the surrender agreement