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1921
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party -
1922
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy -
1929
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR) -
1931
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China -
1933
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany -
1935
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAs5EeZ0o_M -
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0v1NtYBKAE -
1938
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps -
1939
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin -
1939
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany -
1940
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control -
1940
Battle of Britain begins – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island -
1940
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender -
1940
First time Peacetime Draft in US -
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 (Viet. Laos, Cambodia) -
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 -
1942
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow -
1942
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March -
1942
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps -
1942
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific -
1943
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA -
1943
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min. -
1944
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies -
1944
Paris retaken by Allies Forces -
1944
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces -
1945
US forces return to recapture the Philippines -
1945
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President -
1945
V-E Day, war ends in Europe -
1945
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces -
1945
First Atomic Bombs dropped -
1946
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
