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WWII Timeline

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  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi Party

    Hitler is welcomed as the Leader of the Nazi Party
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    WWII Timeline

  • Benito Mussolini Appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Benito Mussolini Appointed Prime Minister of Italy

    Mussolini becomes Prime Minister
  • Josef Stalin Sole Dictator of the Soviet Union

    Josef Stalin Sole Dictator of the Soviet Union

    Josef Stalin becomes Dictator
  • Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

    Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

    Overcomes Manchuria
  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor
  • Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

    Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

    Neutrality Act passes
  • Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

    Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

    Italy seizes Ethiopia
  • Militarist take control of Japanese Government

    Militarist take control of Japanese Government

    Japanese Government is taken over
  • Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty

    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

    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

    Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

    Czechoslovakia is given to Germany
  • Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

    Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

    Jews and others are taken to concentration camps
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

    Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

    Hitler and Stalin join a pact
  • Nazis invade Poland

    Nazis invade Poland

    Poland invaded
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

    Britain and France declare war on Germany

    War is declared on Germany
  • Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium

    Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium

    Nazis take control
  • Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

    Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

    France is forced to surrender
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
  • First time Peacetime Draft in US

    First time Peacetime Draft in US

    Drafting in US
  • Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades USSR

    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

    Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

    Atlantic Charter occurs
  • Japanese invade French Indochina

    Japanese invade French Indochina

    (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
  • Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces

    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

    US declares war on Japan

    War declared on Japan
  • Germany and Italy declare war on the US

    Germany and Italy declare war on the US

    War declared on U.S.
  • Philippines fall to Japanese

    Philippines fall to Japanese

    Bataan Death March
  • Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

    Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

    Japanese Americans taken to camps by the U.S.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    turning point of war in the Pacific
  • Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad, save Moscow

    Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad, save Moscow

    Nazis are stopped
  • British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

    British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa

    German defeat
  • Zoot Suit Riots

    Zoot Suit Riots

    Los Angeles, CA
  • Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

    Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.

    Mussolini no longer prime minister
  • D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

    D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

    Immense number of ships attack
  • Paris retaken by Allies Forces

    Paris retaken by Allies Forces

    Paria retaken
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    last offensive of German Forces
  • US forces return to recapture the Philippines

    US forces return to recapture the Philippines

    Philippines recaptured
  • FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

    FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

    Franklin Roosevelt dies
  • V-E Day, war ends in Europe

    V-E Day, war ends in Europe

    "It's all over"
  • First Atomic Bombs dropped

    First Atomic Bombs dropped

    Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
  • V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

    V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

    Japan finally surrenders
  • War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan

    War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan

    Trials in Germany