WW2 e-timeline

1921, Jan. 30 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

Jan 30, 1921

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/leader.htm

1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Oct 30, 1922

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

Jan 30, 1929

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

Jan 30, 1931

http://thenagain.info/WebChron/China/JapanManchuria.html

1933, March 21 - Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

Mar 21, 1933

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany

1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

Jan 30, 1935

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Acts_of_1930s

1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

Jan 30, 1935

http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/ww2-italy-invades-ethiopia

1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government

Jan 30, 1936

http://www.pacificwar.org.au/pearlharbor/pearloverview3.html

1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty

Jan 30, 1936

http://slideplayer.com/slide/10587695/

1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.

Dec 13, 1937

http://portuguese.china.org.cn/china_key_words/2015-11/16/content_38618518.htm

1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

Sep 30, 1938

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/munich-pact-signed

1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

Nov 30, 1938

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_year_did_the_Jews_get_captured_by_the_Nazis#slide=1

1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

Aug 23, 1939

http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/nonaggression.htm

1939 Sept 1st - Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

Sep 1, 1939

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-declare-war-on-germany

WW2

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Aug 15, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

1940 May 10 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control

May 10, 1940

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-invades-norway-and-denmark

1940 July 10 Battle of Britain begins – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

Jul 10, 1940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain

1940 July 14 - 22Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

Jul 14, 1940

http://slideplayer.com/slide/7949021/

1940 Sept 16 - First time Peacetime Draft in US

Sep 16, 1940

http://onetuberadio.com/2015/09/16/september-16-1940-first-peacetime-draft/

1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

Aug 14, 1941

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter

1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans

Aug 23, 1941

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hitler-stalin-pact

1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)

Sep 22, 1941

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_French_Indochina

1941, Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US - Dec. 9

Dec 7, 1941

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

Feb 19, 1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March

Apr 9, 1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March

1942, June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific

Jun 4, 1942

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwari1/p/Midway.htm

1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

Aug 23, 1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

May 12, 1943

http://ww2today.com/12th-may-1943-the-germans-surrender-in-north-africa

1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

Jun 1, 1943

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots

1943 July - Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

Sep 8, 1943

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/8/newsid_3612000/3612037.stm

1944 June 6 - D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

Jun 6, 1944

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day

1944 Aug. - Paris retaken by Allies Forces

Aug 25, 1944

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated

1944 Dec. Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces

Dec 16, 1944

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge

1945 Jan. – US forces return to recapture the Philippines

Jan 9, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_Campaign_(1944–1945)

1945 April 16th - FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

Apr 16, 1945

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-dies

1945 May 8th - V-E Day, war ends in Europe

May 8, 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_in_Europe_Day

1945 Aug. - First Atomic Bombs dropped

Aug 6, 1945

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima

1945 Aug. 14th – V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

Aug 14, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day

1946 War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan

Aug 26, 1945

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/nuremberg