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Star Spangled Banner named USA's official National Anthem
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia in 1935. Japan invades China in 1937. And Hitler marches into Austria in 1938. Germany, Japan, and Italy withdraw from the League of Nations.
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First Concentartion Camp was set for arrivals
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Burning of the Reichstag
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Hitler becomes the Fuhrer
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The Night of the Long Knives
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Germany issues "Anti-Jewish" laws
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Hitler annexes Austria
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Germany invades Poland. Great Britain declares war on Germany. Soon, all of Europe is fighting. The U.S. enters the war in December, 1941, although FDR is supplying Britain and the allies with guns and material before that date.
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Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany
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An attack on two Allied convoys had 36 ships sunk by the attacking German U-boats.
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The Allied Supreme War Council agrees to help Finland and Norway
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The governments of France and Britain agree to not make any secret peace treaties with the Germans and remain united together against the Nazi Army.
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Five British destroyers surprise and taken down nine out of ten German destroyers near Narvik.
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The Second Battle of Narvik nets the British eight German destroyers and also a submarine.
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An Allied rescue force made up of British, Polish, and French begin arriving at Namsos, Alesund, and Narvik.
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Duringan evacuation operation, the French destroyer Bison and the British destroyer called Afridi are both sunk by air attack.
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns as PM
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British and French army forces begin defensive preparations in Belgium in an effort to stop the German's from advancing.
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British forces at Bodo are forced to evacuate.
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The British and French governments notify the Norwegian government of their plans to evacuate.
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War goods begin leaving U.S. shores bound for Britain.
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The British 7th Tank Regiment, along with the 4th Indian Division, attack Italian positions at Tummar West and Nibeiwa.
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Operation Compass is officially launched.
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the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Anne Frank went into hiding, the Bataan Death March occurred, as did the Battles of Midway and Stalingrad. Japanese-Americans were interred in camps and the Manhattan Project began.
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The Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the killing of French Resistance leader Jean Moulin. Italy joined the Allies.
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D-Day, when the Allies landed in Normandy on the way to liberate Europe from the Nazis.
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World War II ended in Europe and in the Pacific in 1945, those two events dominated this year.
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The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Hitler committed suicide, the Germans and the Japanese surrendered
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The Nuremberg trials had began. The United Nations was founded, and Korea was divided into North and South Korea.
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Winston Churchill gave his "Iron Curtain" speech.
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The King David Hotel in Jersusalem was bombed, and Jews were massacred in the post-Holocaust Kielce Pogrom in Poland.
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The Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe took effect, and Jewish refugees aboard the Exodus were turned back by the British.
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"NATO" was established, the Soviet Union developed the atomic bomb, and China became communist.
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The year also witnessed the first non-stop flight around the world, and George Orwell's landmark "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was published.