World War 2 AH/CB https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007306

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  • Jan 30, 1933

    World War 2 starts .

  • Feb 1,1933

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

  • Oct 3, 1935

    Italy, under the leader ship of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, invades Ethiopia.

  • May 1, 1937

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, which bans travel on belligerent ships.

  • Jul 7, 1937

    The Japanese defeat Chinese forces in a clash near Peking, taking control of North China.

  • May 14, 1938

    In a speech in Rome, Benito Mussolini, fascist leader of Italy, promises to fight the democracies alongside Adolf Hitler's should war break out.

  • Dec 7,1941

    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.

  • Jun 6,1944

    The first of nearly 3 million allied soilders arive in normandy , on tne northern shores of france

  • Aug 6, 1945

    The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hirshima and forced japan to surrender.

  • Aug 9, 1945

    America droped a second bomb on nagasaki forceing japan to surrender again

  • Aug 16,1945

    (JJ day) World War 2 ended