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U.S. History
Unit #8
World War II
World War II Timeline
Year
Event
1922
Benito Mussolini
Fascists Control Italy
1923
Beer Hall Putsch - Germany
1924
Adolf Hitler in Prison
1931
Japan Invades Manchuria
1932
Nazi Party Gains Power in
Germany
1934
Hitler Becomes “Fuhrer” of
Germany
Italy Invades Ethiopia
1935
Nuremburg Laws - Germany
Germany Reoccupies
Rhineland
1936
Military Controls Japan
Hideki Tojo
1937 Japan Invades Eastern China
Description/Significance
“Kristallnacht” - Germany
1938
“Anschluss” Germany
annexes Austria
Sudetenland - Appeasement
1st deportation of Jews Germany
Germany Occupies
Czechoslovakia
1939
Non-aggression Pact
Germany/Russia
Germany Invades Poland
Three Power Pact
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Germany Invades France
1940
Battle of Britain (1940-41)
Battle of the Atlantic (1940-45)
“Afrika Korps”
Germany Enters North Africa
1941
“Operation Barbarossa”
Germany Invades Russia
Pearl Harbor
Japan Attacks U.S.A.
Japan Conquers Southeast
Asia (1941-42)
Executive Order 9066
Korematsu v U.S.
Bataan Death March
1942
The Manhattan Project
(1942-1945)
Battles of Midway &
Guadalcanal
Turning Point in the Pacific
Battle of El Alamein
Turning Point in North Africa
Wannsee Conference
Battle of Stalingrad
Turning Point in Russia
The Holocaust
(1939-1945)
“Battle of Kursk”
1943
Allied Invasion of Italy
Casablanca Conference
Teheran Conference
1944
Operation Overlord – D-Day
Allied Invasion of Normandy
Turning Point in Europe
“Battle of the Bulge”
Yalta Conference
F.D.R. Dies
Germany Surrenders
V-E Day
1945
Potsdam Conference
Atomic Bombs
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Japan Surrenders
V-J Day
Nuremberg Trials (1945-49)
1946
Tokyo War Crimes Trials
(1946-48)