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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
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Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
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Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
Japenese trearted the Chinee very badly. For six weeks Japan forces pillaged the Chinese city of Nanjing. In the assault more than a quarter of a million civilians and prisoners of war were massacred -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
After he got named that Hitler created the totalitarian state. All other parties were outlawed so he was pretty much the dictator. -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
Designed to keep The United States at peace.Made it so we could'nt sell weapons, make loans or give any kind assistance to any involved in the war -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty
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Japan’s army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre a quarter of a million people.
an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking (current official spelling: Nanjing) during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
1938 Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to German
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Nazis begin rounding up Jews for labor camps
After the Anschluss, the SS is placed in charge of Jewish affairs in Austria with Adolf Eichmann establishing an Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna. Himmler then establishes Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
The Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
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Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take control
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First time Peacetime Draft in US
Central to the discussion in The First Peacetime Draft is the first important American policy response to Hitler's victory in Europe in the spring of 1940--the Selective Service Act. It marked the effective end of the isolationist tradition in the United States because for the first time while the country remained officially at peace civilians were drafted into the armed forces to face the possible threat of aggression from abroad. -
\Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
The German objective was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command. From July 1940, coastal shipping convoys and shipping centres, such as Portsmouth, were the main targets; one month later, the Luftwaffe shifted its attacks to RAF airfields and infrastructure. As the battle progressed, the Luftwaffe also targeted aircraft factories and ground infrastructure. -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
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Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
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
Americans were not expecting this rather abrupt attack on them but it happened. The Japanese attacked pearl harbor killing many and sinking out boats, just full of disruction. -
Germany and Italy declare war on the US
Germany and Italy have announced they are at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000[2] people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
Japanese capture many fillipinos and make them walk over 65 miles with no food, water, or sleep many dyed but the ones that lived and escaped are haunted for the rest of their life. -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
Russians stopped Nazis from advancing to Stalingard. The Soviet Union won a clear victory. After that they pushed westward -
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
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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. The Vichy government ceded control of Hanoi and Saigon in 1940 to Japan, and in 1941, Japan extended its control over the whole of French Indochina. The United States, concerned by this expansion, put embargoes on exports of steel and oil to Japan. The desire to escape these embargoes a -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
The Zoot Suit Riots were in part the effect of the infamous Sleepy Lagoon murder trial which followed the death of a young Latino man in a barrio near Los Angeles. The incident triggered similar attacks against Latinos in Beaumont, Chicago, San Diego, Oakland, Detroit, Evansville, Philadelphia, and New York City. -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
North African Campaign took place in North Africa on the 13th of 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). -
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans attacked catching us off gaurd but we ended up really danaging their planes and such -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
Vice president Truman becomes the Pres and leads us to the end of the war. -
V-J Day, Japan surrenders to Allied Forces
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War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
Anybody that had anything to do with the concentration camps or the killing innoceent people were put on trial and most of them were executed for doing those terrible things even thought they had to.
