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Hitler becomes leader of the Nazi party
Hitler is known for being the leader f the Nazi's. After WW1 Hitler became chancellor of Germany and was famous for saying how he was going to fix Germany and make it great again. -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Mussolini was appointed prime minister of Italy from 1922 to 1941. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Joseph Stalin was the sole dictator of the USSR from 1922 to 1953. -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
The Japanese seized Manchuria China the day after the Mukden Incident. The Japanese created a "puppet state". -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany and rules from 1933 until 1945 -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
This was Americas way of trying to stay out of WW1, they didn't pick sides, they just tried to stay out of it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVao8j5RVU) -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa, it started in October 1935, after a battle on 5 December 1934, -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Hitler used the treaty as an excuse to send troops to Rhineland. -
Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
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 residents of Nanjing. -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany, this was part of Germany's punishment for starting WW1. The league of nations took land from all around Germany and make different countries like Czechoslovakia. -
1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin, this kept them at peace -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany. Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland two days ago. At 1115 BST the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the British deadline for the withdrawal of German troops from Poland had expired. -
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia). In 1940, France was swiftly defeated by Nazi Germany, and colonial administration of French Indochina, modern-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, passed to the Vichy French government, a Puppet state of Nazi Germany. -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France fall to Hitler and Germany. German air forces (Luftwaffe) could use land for training. Germans wanted to occupy Norway for these reasons: Control of Norway's coasts -
Battle of Britain begins
Battle of Britain begins, Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island.The Battle of Britain was a combat of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against the German Air. The RAF responded to Luftwaffe developments with its 1934 Expansion Plan A -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 during the Second World War. In six weeks from 10 May 1940, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France. -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
First time Peacetime Draft in US. This started the drafting process that still happens today -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans. (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which was launched on Sunday 22 June 1941. The operation was driven by an ideological desire to conquer the Western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slave labour for the war effort. -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter. The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued on 14 August 1941, that defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. -
Dec. 7 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
Dec. 7 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 -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000[4] people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens.[5][6] These actions were ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.[7] -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
June 4-7 Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific War. Before the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7-8 May 1942, the Imperial Navy of Japan had swept aside all of its enemies from the Pacific and Indian oceans. -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
(23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
1938, Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps. This lasted a long time and many Jewish people died -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
The North African Campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War) and in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch) and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign). -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
Conflict between American servicemen stationed in Southern California and Mexican-American youths. -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (Italian pronunciation: [beˈniːto mussoˈliːni];[1] 29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista; PNF), ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce (The Leader), Mussolini was the founder of Italian Fascism. -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France. -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
The Liberation of Paris (also known as the Battle for Paris) was a military action that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been ruled by Nazi Germany since the signing of the Second Compiègne Armistice on 22 June 1940, after which the Wehrmacht occupied northern and western France. -
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, on the Western Front, towards the end of World War II, in the European theatre. -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
The Philippines campaign, the Battle of the Philippines or the Liberation of the Philippines (Filipino: Kampanya ng Pilipinas, Labanan sa Pilipinas & Pagpapalaya sa Pilipinas) (Operation Musketeer I, II, and III) (Filipino: Oplan Mosketero I, II, and III) 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
On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply 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 of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. -
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremberg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
also known as the Tokyo Trials or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three types of war crimes. "Class A" crimes were reserved for those who participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war, and were brought against those in the highest decision-making bodies; "Class B" crimes were reserved for those who committed "conventional" atrocities or crimes against humanity; -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
The Japanese government got take over by militarist and became a militarist country. Militarism: Having a lot of pride in ones military.
