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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

Jan 30, 1921

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Period: Dec 5, 1921 to Dec 5, 1946

Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy

Dec 5, 1922

Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)

Sep 8, 1929

Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China

Dec 5, 1931

Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

Mar 21, 1933

Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress

Dec 5, 1935

Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa

Dec 5, 1935

Militarist take control of Japanese Government

Dec 5, 1936

Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty

Dec 5, 1936

Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people

Dec 5, 1937

Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany

Dec 5, 1938

Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps

Dec 5, 1938

Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin

Sep 11, 1939

Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control

Dec 11, 1940

Germany invades France and forces it to surrender

Dec 11, 1940

Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island

Dec 11, 1940

First time Peacetime Draft in US

Dec 11, 1940

Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades -USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans

Sep 14, 1941

Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US

Dec 7, 1941

Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter

Dec 17, 1941

Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia

Dec 17, 1941

Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific

Jun 4, 1942

Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death Marc

Dec 17, 1942

Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps

Dec 17, 1942

Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow

Dec 17, 1942

Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min

Jul 17, 1943

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

Dec 17, 1943

Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA

Dec 17, 1943

D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies

Jun 6, 1944

Paris retaken by Allies Forces

Aug 17, 1944

Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces

Dec 17, 1944

US forces return to recapture the Philippines

Jan 17, 1945

FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President

Apr 16, 1945

V-E Day, war ends in Europe

May 8, 1945

V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces

Aug 14, 1945

First Atomic Bombs dropped

Aug 17, 1945

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

Dec 17, 1946