Japan begin takeover of Manchuria, which is later renamed Manchukuo.
Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor of Germany.
Adolph Hitler seizes power in Germany. Hindenburg is reduced to a figure head.
Hitler assumes the presidency of Germany when Hindenburg dies and thus gains full control of the government.
In Germany, the first Nuremberg Laws are passed revoking citizenship from Jews and prohibiting them from marrying non-Jews.
Italy invades Ethiopia.
Berlin Olympic Games. Nazis disguise outward signs of anti-Semitism
Japan invades China.
Kristallnacht- the Night of the Broken Glass. Nazis violently attack Jews and destroy Jewish property, 91 Jews are killed and others are beaten.
The Jewish refugee ship the St. Louis arrives in Belgium after being denied access to Cuba and the United States. Most of the passengers are eventually murdered by the Nazis.
Germany invades Poland from the west.
Britain declares war on Germany at 11 am, France declares war on Germany six hours later.
British troops arrive in France.
In Poland, the process of moving the Jewish population into ghettos begins.
Albert Einstein and others inform FDR of the possibility of creating an atomic bomb.
Rationing is introduced in Britain.
Holland surrenders to Germany.
Belgium surrenders to Germany.
Norway surrenders to Germany.
Italy declares war on Britain and France.
Germans enter Paris
First all night air raid on London.
Germany attacks the Soviet Union.
Over 62,000 Jews are murdered in western Russia.
Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary, and Rumania. Japanese bomb the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
Britain and the United States declare war on Japan. Japan invades Malaya.
Germany and Italy declare war on United States.
United States institutes extended military conscription for men ages 20-44.
14 Nazi leaders attend a short meeting to discuss the elimination of the remaining European Jews. The genocidal plan is dubbed "The Final Solution."
The United States first attacks the Japanese by air.
Battle of Midway Island.
Germans advancing in Russia and start the Leningrad offensive on the 28th.
Battle of Guadalcanal, heavy losses on both sides, eventual United States victory.
Italy surrenders.
D-Day, Allied invasion of Normandy.
Germans in retreat from Normandy.
Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive in the west.
