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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945 -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
In 1931, the Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congres Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia. -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
The military took control of the governmrnt. People were under strick rules and were beat if they did not follow them, -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
The Nanking Massacre, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residence of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
The Munich Agreement was a bargain between Nazi Germany, and its allies, Italy, the Western Powers of France, and the United Kingdom. The bargain, or pact, allowed Germany to take over the borderlands of Czechoslovakia known as the Sudetenland -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
Aldof Hitler amde lots of peole against Jews. He said they caused the fail of ww1. Many ant-Jew kiled them for fun. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
These were the two bitter enimes but signed a contrat to not attack each other. Germant did not follow thruand attacked Russia. Russia revanged them back . -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
The Invasion of Poland, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
Hitler's forces were on their way to Norway, and on the 9th of April his paratroops landed at six of Norway's ports, between Oslo and Narvik. And that same day the Germans moved to take control of the land directly between it and Norway: Denmark. -
Battle of Britain begins – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
The Battle of Britain campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign -
22Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
In the Second World War, the Battle of France, was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
This Selective Service Act required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards. Later, when the U.S. entered World War II, all men aged 18 to 45 were made subject to military service, and all men aged 18 to 65 were required to register -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
This is when Hitler broke the agreement with Russian and attacked it. The russians later got their revange -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; reduction of trade restrictions -
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
In September 1940, the Japanese invaded Vichy French Indochina in order to prevent the Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French Indochina along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway, from the port of Haiphong through Hanoi to Kunming in Yunnan. The France won. -
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
The jappanses were very smart and planes tthe attack for 3 years. That day it was a vey easy day to aatack them The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March, which began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry. Fear — not evidence — drove the U.S. to place over 127,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of ww2 -
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating and irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
The Battle of Moscow is the name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War Il -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia. -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C-KDq8F-ek
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots in 1943 during World War II that exploded in Los Angeles, California, between white sailors and Marines stationed throughout the city and Latino youths, who were recognizable by the zoot suits they favored. While Mexican Americans and military servicemen were the main parties in the riots, African American and Filipino/Filipino American youth were also involved -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min
The surrender was signed five days ago in secret by a representative of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's prime minister since the downfall of Benito Mussolini in July -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
The Invasion of Normandy was the invasion by and establishment of Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II; the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
was a military conflict that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944 -
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
was the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, during World War II -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declinin of health -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany
