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WWII Timeline

By DeeJ30

  • Xinhai Revolution in China

    The overthrow of China's ruling Qing Dynasty.

  • Emperor Puyi steps down as last Qing Emperor of China.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the United States for the first time.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

  • Chinese Communists engage in the Long March

  • Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by ordering military conscription

  • Mussolini Invades Ethiopia

  • Bombing of Guernica, Spain

  • Stalin begins his purge of dissenters.

  • Japan Invades Nanking, China

  • Germany announces ‘Anschluss’ with Austria.

  • Britain, France, and Russia appease Germany at the Munich Conference.

  • Kristallnacht begins.

  • Czechoslovakia taken by Nazi’s as appeasement from Britain and France.

  • Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy

    If there was a war there would be mutual assistance between the countries.

  • Nazis and Soviets sign non-aggression Pact.

  • Britain declares war on Germany.

  • United States proclaims neutrality.

  • Germany Invades Poland

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands

  • Battle of Britain begins.

  • German air raid on Central London

  • Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan

  • Germany attacks the Soviet Union.

  • Nazi’s first experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.

  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.

  • United States and Britain declare war on Japan

  • Germany declares war on the United States.

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

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