WWII Timeline by John Foster

By Hufflepuff890

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

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    WWII Timeline

  • Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia

  • FDR signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, banning travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring countries

    FDR signs the 1937 Neutrality Act, banning travel on belligerent ships, forbids the arming of American merchant ships trading with belligerents, and issues an arms embargo with warring countries

  • FDR forbids U.S. ships from carrying arms to China or Japan

  • In response to Japanese action in China, FDR delivers a speech in which he calls for peace-loving nations to act together to “quarantine” aggressors

  • Japanese warplanes dive-bomb the American gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River in China, then apologizes and pays reparations for the lives lost

  • Time Inc. releases an anti-Nazi propaganda newsreel entitled March of Time in Nazi Germany

  • Hitler announces support for Japan

  • Hermann Goering, marshal of the Third Reich and Hitler’s second in charge, warns all Jews to leave Austria

  • Benito Mussolini agrees to fight alongside Hitler if war should break out

  • Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht); 7500 Jewish businesses are looted, 191 synagogues were set on fire, about 100 Jews were killed, and tens of thousands are sent to concentration camps

  • Germany and the Soviet Union agree to a nonaggression pact, allowing the Soviets to strengthen their western frontier

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Congress lifts the embargo on arms so that munitions could be sold to Britain and France

  • In a speech to Congress, FDR requests new defense spending, an enlarged army, and an expanded air fleet

  • France surrenders to Germany

  • FDR was elected for a third term

  • U.S. seizes Axis ships that sail into American ports

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Japanese fighter planes bomb Pearl Harbor

  • Winston Churchill and FDR meet to plan attacks

  • D-Day: Nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France

  • FDR dies of a cerebral hemorrhage

  • Germany surrenders

  • WWII ends

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