WWII By gstokes23 Jul 29, 1921 Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party. Period: Jul 29, 1921 to Sep 2, 1945 WWII Nov 8, 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president of the United States. Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. Mar 7, 1936 German troops remilitarize Rhineland. May 9, 1936 Mussolini takes Ethiopia. Oct 15, 1936 Hitler occupies Sudetenland. Mar 12, 1939 Germany combines with Austria (the Anschluss). Mar 15, 1939 Germany takes the rest of Czechoslovakia. Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Joseph Stalin sign a nonaggression pact. Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland. Sep 4, 1939 The British Royal Air Force attacks German Navy and succeeds. May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain as Germany continues to invade other European countries. Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain Jun 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa, Germany attacks the Soviet Union. Jul 26, 1941 Roosevelt discontinues relations with Japan. Aug 14, 1941 Atlantic Charter (Churchill and Roosevelt) Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Apr 1, 1942 Japanese-Americans sent to relocation camps. Jan 27, 1943 First American bombing on Germany. Jun 6, 1944 D-Day; landings in northern France Apr 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide. May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe Day Aug 6, 1945 First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Aug 9, 1945 Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrenders (V-Day)
