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WWII Timeline Objective: Create a timeline as a visual tool to help you understand the sequence of events that unfolded leading up to and through WWII. November 11, 1918. WWI is over. 1919. Hitler Forms Nazi Party. 1924. Beer Hall Putsch fails Hitler goes to jail. October 29, 1929.
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WWII TimelineObjective: Create a timeline as a visual tool to help you understand the sequence of events that unfolded leading up to and through WWII.
November 11, 1918 • WWI is over
1919 • Hitler Forms Nazi Party
1924 • Beer Hall Putsch fails • Hitler goes to jail
October 29, 1929 • Stock Market Crashes
1931 • Japan attacks Manchuria
1932 • FDR elected President of US
1933 • Hitler becomes Chancellor in Germany • Japan leaves League of Nations
1934 • Reichstag Fire • Hitler makes Deutschland Pact with the army • Night of the Long Knives • All leaders of the Brownshirts (SA) are killed • Hitler declares himself fuehrer over Germany
1935 • Mussolini invades Ethiopia • Hitler begins to defy Treaty of Versailles • Holds a draft • FDR passes first Neutrality Acts • Hitler passes Nuremberg Laws
1936 • Hitler & Mussolini send troops to Spain • FDR elected to 2nd term as President • Hitler sends troops into Rhineland • Hitler & Mussolini form Axis Powers
1937 • Japan invades China • FDR adds to Neutrality Acts • Hitler annexes Austria
1938 • Hitler invades Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia • Munich Conference is held • Holocaust begins- Nov. 9, 1938 (Kristallnacht) Night of the Broken Glass
1939 • Germany signs non-aggression pact with Russia • FDR steps up Neutrality Acts • Hitler invades Poland • WWII begins September 1, 1939 • Hitler takes Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
1940 • France surrenders • FDR elected to 3rd term as President • Hitler begins bombing London (Battle of Britain) • FDR places trade embargo on Japan • Japan joins Axis Powers • Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England
1941 • FDR & Churchill form Atlantic Charter • Basis for the United Nations • Dec. 7- Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor • Germany & Italy declare war on US • US mobilizes • Germany invades USSR
1942 • Japan has control of Pacific & Philippines • Hitler controls Europe, Med., & N. Africa • Hitler orders Final Solution • Extermination of Jews • US victories at Coral Sea & Midway halt Japanese expansion in Pacific
1943 • Germans surrender to Russia at Stalingrad • US defeats Rommel in North Africa • Italy surrenders to Allies
1944 • US defeats Germany in Rome • June 6- D-Day- Allies invade France • Paris liberated in August • Battle of the Bulge begins • FDR elected to 4th term as President
1945 • Allies begin final assault on Germany • Feb-US wins back Philippines & Iwo Jima • April 12- FDR dies, Truman takes over • April 30- Hitler commits suicide • May 8- VE Day (Victory in Europe) • August 6- Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima • August 8- USSR declares war on Japan • August 9- Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki • August 15- VJ Day (Victory in Japan) • United Nations is born