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WWII

By jadaoberacker
  • Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

    Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

  • Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist Nazi Party

    Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist Nazi Party

  • Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.

    Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.

  • Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany

    Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany

  • Roosevelt elected President

    Roosevelt elected President

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • German Reichstag Burns

    German Reichstag Burns

  • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power

    Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power

  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

    Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

  • Germany quites League of Nations

    Germany quites League of Nations

  • Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss

    Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss

    Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss bled to death in his Vienna office, assassinated by Nazis in a (failed) attempt to overthrow the Austrian government.
  • Hindenburg dies

    Hindenburg dies

  • Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

    Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription

    Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription

  • Nuremburg Laws passes

    Nuremburg Laws passes

    Image: Nuremburg Laws Chart
  • Germans occupy the Rhinelands

    Germans occupy the Rhinelands

    Here German troops cross the Rhine to recoccupy the Rhineland.
  • German Military Mobilizes

    German Military Mobilizes

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

  • Nazis take Czechoslovakia

    Deep inside the former Czechoslovakia, residents of the city of Moravia watch as Hitler's troops roll in.
  • Non-Aggression Pact

    Non-Aggression Pact

  • Nazis invade Poland

    Nazis invade Poland

    German troops parade through Warsaw after the invasion of Poland
  • U.S. declares neutrality

    U.S. declares neutrality

    President Roosevelt remained focused on the problems at home as he declared American neutrality.
  • Soviets invade Poland

    Soviets invade Poland

    Image: Soviets parade in Lviv, 1939.
  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis

    Belgium surrenders to the Nazis

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany

    France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany

    Image: Prime Minister of Vichy France with Hitler.
  • Battle of Britain begins

    Battle of Britain begins

    Image: Heinkel He 111 bombers during the Battle of Britain
  • German Blitz against Britain begins

    German Blitz against Britain begins

  • President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act

    President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act

  • Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg

    Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg

  • Operation Barbarossa begins.

    Operation Barbarossa begins.

    Germans attack Soviet Union.
  • Executive Order 8832

    Executive Order 8832

    Image: Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan

    United States and Britain declare war on Japan

  • Hitler declares war on the United States

    Hitler declares war on the United States

  • Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps

    Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps

  • Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations

    Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations

  • Battle of Stalingrad begins

    Battle of Stalingrad begins

    Image: Soviets defend a position.
  • Allies take Tunisia

    Allies take Tunisia

  • Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland

    Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland

  • Casablanca conference

    Casablanca conference

    Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with "unconditional German surrender."
  • Allies land in Sicily

    Allies land in Sicily

  • Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls

    Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls

  • Germans rescue Mussolini

    Germans rescue Mussolini

  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.
  • D-Day landings on Normandy

    D-Day landings on Normandy

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • FDR died

    FDR died

  • Soviets reach Berlin

    Soviets reach Berlin

  • Mussolini is captured and hung by Italian partisans

    Mussolini is captured and hung by Italian partisans

    Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan, after being shot.
  • Htiler commits suicide

    Htiler commits suicide

  • Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government

    Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

  • U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • U.S. drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    U.S. drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki

  • Japanese agree to unconditional surrender

    Japanese agree to unconditional surrender

  • Nuremberg war crimes trials begin

    Nuremberg war crimes trials begin