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Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi Party
Hitler is welcomed as the Leader of the Nazi Party -
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WWII Timeline
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Benito Mussolini Appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Mussolini becomes Prime Minister -
Josef Stalin Sole Dictator of the Soviet Union
Josef Stalin becomes Dictator -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
Overcomes Manchuria -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
Neutrality Act passes -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
Italy seizes Ethiopia -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
Japanese Government is taken over -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Violation of the Versailles Treaty -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people
Massacre of at least a quarter of a million people -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
Czechoslovakia is given to Germany -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Jews and others are taken to concentration camps -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
Hitler and Stalin join a pact -
Nazis invade Poland
Poland invaded -
Britain and France declare war on Germany
War is declared on Germany -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium
Nazis take control -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
France is forced to surrender -
Battle of Britain
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
Drafting in US -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades USSR
USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
Atlantic Charter occurs -
Japanese invade French Indochina
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqNY88Amuzw Pearl Harbor attacked -
US declares war on Japan
War declared on Japan -
Germany and Italy declare war on the US
War declared on U.S. -
Philippines fall to Japanese
Bataan Death March -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
Japanese Americans taken to camps by the U.S. -
Battle of Midway
turning point of war in the Pacific -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad, save Moscow
Nazis are stopped -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
German defeat -
Zoot Suit Riots
Los Angeles, CA -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
Mussolini no longer prime minister -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
Immense number of ships attack -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
Paria retaken -
Battle of the Bulge
last offensive of German Forces -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
Philippines recaptured -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
Franklin Roosevelt dies -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
"It's all over" -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
Japan finally surrenders -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan
Trials in Germany
