WWII Time Line

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi Party

    Hitler is appointed head of the Nazi party
  • Benito Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini was appointed PM in January of 1922
  • Josef Stalin sole director of the soviet union

    Josef Stalin sole director of the soviet union

    Josef Stalin is head of the USSR
  • Japanese army seizes Manchuria

    Japanese army seizes Manchuria

    Japan takes control of Manchuria
  • Hitler is chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany
  • Neutrality act passed by US congress

    Neutrality act passed by US congress

    US becomes a neutral force, deciding to not intervene in WWII
  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia

    Mussolini orders Italian army to invade Ethiopia
  • Militarists take control of Japanese gov.

    Militarists take control of Japanese gov.

    Japan converts government system to Militarism
  • Hitler violates the TofV

    Hitler violates the TofV

    Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Japanese Massacre

    Japanese Massacre

    Japan pillages Nanjing in China and kills a quarter of a million people
  • Sudetenland is given to Germany

    Sudetenland is given to Germany

    Czechoslovakian's Sudetenland was given to Germany when the Munich pact was signed
  • Labor camps

    Labor camps

    The Nazi party starts to round up the Jews and placing in labor camps
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler singed the Nazi-Soviet pact
  • Germany invades France

    Germany invades France

    Germany invades France and forces France to Surrender
  • Nazi's invade

    Nazi's invade

    The Nazi's invade and take control of Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium.
  • Battle of Britain begins

    Battle of Britain begins

    Germany tries to invade Great Britain but the Royal Air Force prevents a successful invasion.
  • US peacetime draft

    US peacetime draft

    The US enacts the first peacetime in US history
  • Hitler & the USSR

    Hitler & the USSR

    Hitler breaks the pact with Stalin and tries to invade Russia; Russia in turn Joins England in the fighting
  • Atlantic Charter

    Atlantic Charter

    FDR and Churchill issue the Atlantic Charter
  • Japan and French Indochina

    Japan and French Indochina

    Japan invades French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese Carried out an attack on Pearl Harbor. the US declares war on Japan; And in turn Germany and Italy declare wr on the US.
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    The Japanese invade the Philippines and take 140,000 prisoners from both the US and the Philippines.
  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    The Russians stop the Nazi's from advancing at Stalingrad and save Moscow
  • Defeat in North Africa

    Defeat in North Africa

    The British and US forces defeat the German an Italian armies in North Africa.
  • Isolation capms

    Isolation capms

    Japanese Americans are put in isolated camps
  • Zoot suit riots

    Zoot suit riots

    riots broke out in Los Angeles over Latino children being beaten
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Between Japan and the US, this battle is considered to be the turning point in the war
  • Italy Surrenders

    Italy Surrenders

    Prime minister Mussolini is dismissed
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    the invasion of France by Normandy by allies
  • Paris

    Paris

    Paris is retaken by allied forces
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    The last German offensive push
  • Philippines

    Philippines

    US forces recapture the Phillippines
  • FDR dies

    FDR dies

    Harry Truman becomes president
  • VE-Day

    VE-Day

    war ends in Europe
  • VJ-Day

    VJ-Day

    Japan surrenders to allied forces
  • first atomic bomb dropped

    first atomic bomb dropped

    the first atomic bomb used on humans was dropped on Hiroshima
  • war crime trials

    war crime trials

    war crime trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines; and Tokyo, Japan