world war two By mattsaunders Nov 8, 1932 Franklin Roosevelt elected President Franklin Roosevelt elected President Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Feb 27, 1933 German Reichstag Burns Mar 12, 1933 First Concentration Camp opened Oct 14, 1933 Germany quits the League of Nations Jul 25, 1934 Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Mar 16, 1935 Hitler Violates Treaty of Versailles Sep 15, 1935 German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremburg Race Laws Jun 11, 1937 Josef Stalin begins the purge of Red Army Generals Aug 12, 1937 German military mobilizes Mar 16, 1939 Nazis capture Czechoslovakia Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland Sep 3, 1939 France, Britain, New Zealand, and Austria declare war on Germany Sep 5, 1939 United States proclaims nuetrality Sep 17, 1939 Soviets invade Poland Oct 1, 1939 Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany Jun 3, 1940 Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends Jul 1, 1940 German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic Nov 5, 1940 Roosevelt re-elected President Sep 1, 1941 Germans order Jews to wear yellow stars Dec 7, 1941 Japenese bomb Pearl Harbor Dec 8, 1941 United States and Britian declare war on Japan Dec 11, 1941 Hitler declares war on United States Apr 1, 1942 Japanese Americans sent to relocation centers Feb 2, 1943 Germany surrenders at Stalingrad, the first big defeat of Hitlers armies Mar 18, 1944 British drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Hamburg, Germany Jun 6, 1944 D-Day landings on the northern coast of France Aug 6, 1945 First U.S atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan Aug 9, 1945 Second U.S atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan Oct 24, 1945 United Nations in Born
