WWII By thelittleblueflower Sep 19, 1931 Japan conquers Manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany Mar 4, 1933 Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated for his first term as president Jul 7, 1937 Japan invades China Sep 29, 1938 : Munich Pact: To avert war, Britain and France give in to Hitler's claim to the Sudetenland Sep 1, 1939 World War II begins following Germany's invasion of Poland Sep 3, 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany Dec 7, 1941 : Japanese planes and submarines attack the American fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in an underground bunker in Berlin Aug 6, 1945 The Enola Gay, a B-29, drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A second bomb is later dropped on Nagasaki. Sep 2, 1945 Japan formally surrenders in a ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay
