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Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of Nazi Party
Concentration CampHitler was now gaining massive popularity for his rowdy behavior. -
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World War II Timelime
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Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Benito created the world's first facist state. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Soviet Union (USSR)
Managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin. -
Japan’s Army seizes Manchuria, China
Japan and its Militarism government starts its acts of war -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Hitler gains power thourgh offical government positon -
Neutrality Acts passed by US Congress
This act keeps the United States at peace -
Italian Army invades Ethipia in Africa
The Italian Army marches into Ethiopia and take control -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
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Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of Versailles Treaty
Hitler sends troop into Rienland in a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
Hiltler and Stalin become "Friends" -
Japan's army pillages Nanjing, China; massacre 250,000 people
Japanese massacre a quater milion chinese people in the town of Nanjing,China -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
Germany expands by the treaty with Czechoslovika giving Germany Sudetenland -
Nazis begin rounding up Jews for concentration camps
The Jews are round up to be used in labor camp for the Nazi's -
Nazis invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
Poland fearing invasion asked Briatin and France for help if Germany ever invaded. -
Germany invades France and forces it to surrender
France falls to Germany along with most of Europe -
Battle of Britain – Royal Air Force defeats German Air Force to prevent invasion of their island
Young British piolts defened there country from the German Air Force -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium – take contro
The nazi's start to invaded and capture other countries -
First time Peacetime Draft in US
U.S.A drafts their ver first peacetime -
Hitler breaks Pact with Stalin’s Russia and invades - USSR which now joins England in fighting the Germans
Hitler turns on Stalin -
Churchill and FDR issue the Atlantic Charter
Atlantic Charter issued -
Japanese invade French Indochina (Viet. Laos, Cambodia)
Japan invades french in their own territory -
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii attacked by Japanese Naval and Air forces, US declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy declare war on the US
Japan boms U.S in Pearl Harbor -
Philippines fall to Japanese – Bataan Death March
Many prisioners of ar taken -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
They were not trusted at all -
Battle of Midway, turning point of war in the Pacific
Turning point in war -
Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad save Moscow
Russian win saves Moscow -
Zoot Suit Riots – Los Angeles, CA
Soldiers attack men in zoot suits -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
U.S involvment helps earn more victories -
Italy surrenders, Mussolini dismissed as Prime Min.
Mussolini is no longer Prime Minister of Italy -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
Paris taken from germans -
Battle of the Bulge – last offensive of German Forces
Germans take there last stand -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
Allied troops land at Normady -
V-E Day, war ends in Europe
Euorpean front is over -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
U.S frees the Philippines -
FDR dies, Harry S. Truman becomes President
FDR dies, vice takes over -
First Atomic Bombs dropped
Deadly, first ever -
War Crimes Trials
War Crimes Trials held in Nuremburg, Germany; Manila, Philippines and Tokyo, Japan.
