WWII

By whitingale11
  • Hittler becomes leader of Nazi Party

    Hittler becomes leader of Nazi Party

  • Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

  • Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union

  • Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

  • Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

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

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

  • Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

    Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

  • Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium

  • Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

    Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

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    Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

  • 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, US declares war on Japan

    Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan

  • Germany and Italy declare war on the US

  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

  • Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March

  • Battle of Midway

    turning point of war in the Pacific
    lasted 3 days

  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

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

  • Zoot Suit Riots

    Zoot Suit Riots

    Los Angeles, CA

  • Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

  • D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

    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

  • FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

  • V-E Day, war ends in Europe

    V-E Day, war ends in Europe

  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

    First Atomic Bombs dropped

  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

    V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

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

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

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