WW2 TImeline By MadelineM Jan 30, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party Period: Jan 30, 1921 to Jan 1, 1946 World War 2 Causes & Effects Oct 29, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy Dec 3, 1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union Sep 18, 1931 Japan's army seizes Manchuria, China Mar 21, 1933 HItler is named Chancellor of Germany Aug 31, 1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress Oct 3, 1935 Italian army invades Ethiiopia in Africa Mar 7, 1936 Hitler sends troops to Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Treaty of Versailles rHINELAND Dec 3, 1936 Militarist take control of Japanese government Jul 3, 1937 Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people Mar 13, 1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps Sep 30, 1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany Dec 3, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium - take control Dec 3, 1940 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender Dec 3, 1940 Battle of Britain - royal airforce defeats German air force to prevent invasion of their island Dec 3, 1940 First time Peacetime draft in US Dec 6, 1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans Dec 6, 1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter Dec 6, 1941 Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces Dec 9, 1941 US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific Dec 6, 1942 Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March Dec 6, 1942 Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps Dec 6, 1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow Jul 6, 1943 Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min. Dec 6, 1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa Dec 6, 1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA Jun 6, 1944 D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies Aug 12, 1944 Paris retaken by Allies Forces Dec 12, 1944 Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces Jan 12, 1945 US forces return to recapture the Philippines Apr 16, 1945 FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President May 8, 1945 V-E Day, war ends in Europe Aug 12, 1945 First Atomic Bombs dropped Aug 14, 1945 V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces Dec 12, 1946 War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
