WW2

By matt112901

  • Mussolini joins Hitler

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

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

  • Roosevelt quarantines the war

    In response to Japanese action in China, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers a speech in which he calls for peace-loving nations to act together to "quarantine" aggressors to protect the world from the "disease" of war.

  • Attack on panay

    Japanese warplanes dive-bomb the American gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River in China. Japan apologizes and pays reparations for the lives lost.
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    U.S against Japan

    In the United States, popular support for American action against Japan far exceeds support for action against Nazi Germany.

  • Hitler supports Japan

    German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announces support for Japan.

  • Herman Goering warns the Jews

    Hermann Goering, marshal of the Third Reich and Hitler's second in charge, warns all Jews to leave Austria.

  • Naval expansion act

    The U.S. Congress passes the Naval Expansion Act giving President Franklin D. Roosevelt one billion dollars to enlarge the navy

  • Sudetenland and Appeasement

    Leaders of France and Great Britain meet with representatives from Germany, including Adolf Hitler, to discuss Germany's demands, ultimately granting Hitler the Sudetenland in the hopes of gaining "peace with honor." The Czechs are not consulted.

  • Hitler Promises Peace

    Adolf Hitler, in return for the Sudetenland, promises to leave the rest of Czechoslovakia alone.