WWII

WWII

Period: Jan 1, 1921 to Sep 2, 1945

Benito Mussolini founded Fascist Party

Jan 7, 1921

Stalin came to power in the Soviet Union

Dec 7, 1924

Japan invaded Manchuria

Sep 19, 1931

Hitler created the Nazi Party

Dec 7, 1933

U.S. passes Neutrality Act

Aug 31, 1935

Japan formed alliance with Germany and Italy

Dec 7, 1935

Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Japan signed an anticommunism pact with Germany

Oct 23, 1936

Anschluss

Mar 12, 1938

the joining of Germany and Austria

Germany and Soviet Union sign nonagression pact

Aug 23, 1939

Germany invaded Poland

Sep 1, 1939

official start of war

Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

U.S. passes cash-and carry

Sep 21, 1939

U.S. lend Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

Hitler broke nonagression pact with Stalin

Aug 7, 1941

Soviets joined the Allies

The Atlantic Charter met

Aug 8, 1941

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

brings the U.S. into war

Doolittle Raids

Apr 18, 1942

16 U.S. bombers attack Tokyo

Battle of Midway

Jun 4, 1942

U.S. defeated Japan

Soviets defeated Germany at The Battle of Stalingrad

Aug 23, 1942

Operation Torch

Nov 8, 1942

The U.S. invades North Africa

U.S. invades Sicily

Jul 9, 1943

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

U.S. attacks on the beaches of Normandy

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Oct 23, 1944

naval battle between U.S. and Japan

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

last major German offensive

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet to discuss post-war

Iwo Jima

Feb 19, 1945

U.S. attacked Japan

Okinawa

Apr 7, 1945

U.S. was island hopping to Japan

VE Day

May 8, 1945

marked the formal end of war in Europe

Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

Japan surrenders

Sep 2, 1945