WWII By mwork17 Oct 29, 1929 U.S. Stock Market Crash Sep 19, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Hitler Becomes Germany's Chancellor Jun 30, 1934 The Night of the Long Knives Mar 13, 1935 Hitler openly announces to his Cabinet he will Defy the Treaty of Versailles Sep 15, 1935 First Anit-Semitic Law is passed in Germany Sep 15, 1935 Creation of the Nuremberg Laws Oct 3, 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia Mar 7, 1936 Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland Dec 13, 1937 Rape of Nanking Mar 12, 1938 Germany Annexes Austria Sep 28, 1938 Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia Sep 30, 1938 Munich Conference Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Aug 2, 1939 Einstein’s letter to FDR, “The Manhattan Project” Aug 23, 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Sep 1, 1939 Nazi Invades Poland May 26, 1940 Evacuation of Dunkirk Sep 27, 1940 The Tripartite Pact Jan 20, 1941 The Wannsee Conference and the “Final Solution” Mar 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act Jun 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Apr 9, 1942 Bataan Death March Jun 6, 1944 Operation Overlord and D-Day Jul 23, 1944 Discovery of Majdanek Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s Suicide May 8, 1945 V-E Day Aug 14, 1945 V-J Day Feb 4, 1947 The Beginning of the Cold War