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WW2 timeline (1921-1946)

By barbeauxbri12

  • Hitler is leader of Nazi Party

  • Period: to

    Before-After WW2

  • Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

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

  • Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

  • Hitler violated Treaty of Versailles

  • Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China

    massacre a quarter of a million people

  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • Munich Pact signed

    giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

  • Nazis invade Poland

    Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Germany invades France

    France is forced to surrender

  • Nazis take control

    Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium
    (not exact date, it took through-out the year to control all)

  • Battle of Britain

    Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

  • Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades

    USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans

  • Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

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

  • Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the US

    US declares war on Japan

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

  • Philippines fall to Japanese

    Bataan Death March
    (lasted from december 1941- may 1942)

  • Battle of Midway

    turning point in the Pacific war
    (June 4-7)

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

  • Zoot Suit Riots

    Location: Los Angeles, CA
    were usually worn by preteen-teen youths

  • British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies

    Location: North Africa

  • Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min

  • D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

  • Paris retaken by Allies Forces

  • Battle of the Bulge

    last offensive of german forces

  • US forces return to recapture the Philippines

    (Jan.-Feb.)

  • FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

  • V-E Day, war ends in Europe

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

  • war crime trials

    held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
    (some happened before in 1946 in 1945)