WWll By Ben McCrumb Jan 30, 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party. Oct 17, 1922 Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy Jun 19, 1929 Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union Mar 25, 1931 Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China Mar 21, 1933 Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany Feb 7, 1935 Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa Aug 29, 1935 Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress Apr 17, 1936 Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty May 20, 1936 Militarist take control of Japanese Government Nov 20, 1937 Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people. Jun 7, 1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany Sep 28, 1938 Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps Mar 13, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany May 10, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins Jul 14, 1940 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender Sep 16, 1940 First time Peacetime Draft in US Mar 9, 1941 Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades Sep 5, 1941 Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter Oct 18, 1941 Japanese invade French Indochina Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces Dec 9, 1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the US Jun 4, 1942 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific Aug 14, 1942 Bataan Death March Oct 27, 1942 Japanese Americans interned in death camps Dec 11, 1942 Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow Feb 8, 1943 British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa Apr 1, 1943 Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA Jul 14, 1943 Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min. Jun 6, 1944 D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies Aug 15, 1944 Paris retaken by Allies Forces Dec 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces Jan 7, 1945 US forces return to recapture the Philippines Apr 16, 1945 FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President May 8, 1945 V-E Day, war ends in Europe Aug 13, 1945 First Atomic Bombs dropped Aug 14, 1945 V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces Dec 25, 1946 War Crimes Trials held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
