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1921
Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party. -
1933
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany -
1939
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
1940
22 Germany invades France and forces it to surrender. -
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. 9 -
1949
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min. -
1922
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime of italy. -
1929
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR) -
1931
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China -
1935
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress -
1935
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa -
1936
Militarist take control of Japanese Government -
1936
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty. -
1937
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people. -
1938
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany. -
1938
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps. -
1939
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin -
1941
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans. -
1941
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter. -
1941
Japanese invade French Indochina -
1942
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps. -
1942
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow -
1943
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa. -
1943
Zoot Suit Riots -
1945
US forces return to recapture the Philippines. -
1945
US forces return to recapture the Philippines -
1946
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila -
1942
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March. -
1945
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President -
1945
- V-E Day, war ends in Europe
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1940
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control -
1942
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific -
1940
Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
1945
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces -
1944
Paris retaken by Allies Forces. -
1945
First Atomic Bombs dropped -
1940
First time Peacetime Draft in US -
1944
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces