WWII TIMELINE
1931
SEPTEMBER 1931 JAPAN INVADES MANCHURIA OCTOBER 1931 JAPAN PRIME MINISTER IS ASSASSINATED BY AN OFFICER, NOW JAPAN IS OFFICIALLY CONTROLED BY THE MILITARY
1933
HITLER BECOMES CHANCELOR OF GERMANY FIRST CONCENTRATION CAMP ESTABLISHED
NAZI PARTY BECOME THE ONLY PARTY IN GERMANY GERMANY QUITS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
1934
HINDENBURG DIES, HITLER RISES TO FUHRER OF GERMANY
1935
VIOLATE TREATY OF VERSALLIES & INTRODUCE A MILITARY TO GERMANY NUEMBERG LAWS ARE ESTABLISHED IN GERMANY
ANTI-COMINTERN PACT (GERMANY, ITALY, JAPAN) SEPTEMBER 1935, NUEMBERG LAWS ARE ESTABLISHED IN GERMANY
1936
GERMANY VIOLATES TREATY OF VERSALLIES AND MOVE IN AND OCCUPY THE RHINELAND MUSSOLINI/ ITALY INVADE ETHIOPIA
OLYMPICS ARE HELD IN BERLIN, GERMANY
1937
UNITED STATES DECLAIRED NEUTRALITY ACT OF 1937 “CASH AND CARRY”
1938
APPEASEMENT POLICY OVER SUDETENLAND “MUNICH CONFERENCE” HITLER THREATENED TO INVADE GERMAN SPEAKING AUSTRIA, AUSTRIA GOVERNMENT GIVES IN. APPEASEMENT POLICY OVER SUDETENLAND “MUNICH CONFERENCE”
JAPAN GOES TO WAR WITH CHINA BY THE END JAPAN CAPTURED: SHANGHAI, BEIJING, AND NANJING
STALIN AND HITLER JOIN SAME SIDE “NONAGGRESSION PACT” KRISTALLNACHT
1939
SEPTEMBER 1939, GERMANY INVADES POLAND GERMANY INVADES NORWAY, DENMARK, FRANCE
BRITAIN & FRANCE DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY CANADA DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY WAR IN ATLANTIC BEGINS
UNITED STATE CUTS OFF SUPPLIES OF AIRCRAFT MATERIALS WITH JAPAN CANADA DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY WAR IN ATLANTIC BEGINS
1940
MAY 10 1940, BATTLE OF BRITAIN GERMANY INVADES NORWAY, DENMARK, FRANCE
LONDON BLITZ UNITED STATES CUTS OFF SCRAP STEEL TO JAPAN US DECLARES SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT (FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT IN AMERICAN HISTORY)
JAPAN MOVES TO OCCUPY FRENCH, INDO-CHINA GERMANY, ITALY, AND JAPAN SIGN TRIPARTITE PACT (TO ESTABLISH NEW ORDER IN EUROPE AND ASIA) ITALY INVADE GREECE JAPAN MOVES TO OCCUPY FRENCH, INDO-CHINA
1941
US CUTS JAPAN OFF FROM MACHINE TOOLS & METAL ORE CANADA DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY WAR IN ATLANTIC BEGINS UNITED STATES IN THE SUMMER OF 41’ CUT OFF OIL DELIVERIES TO JAPAN.
LEND LEASE PROGRAM INTRODUCED TO HELP WITH GREAT DEPRESSION FIRST ALL BLACK UNIT OF U.S AIRCORPS- TUSKEGEE AIRMAN
HITLER UNLEASHES “BARBAROSSA” INVADES THE SOVIET UNION ROOSEVELT EXTENDS LEND LEASE ACT TO S.U
DECEMBER 7TH 1941, AT 7:55AM ON A SUNDAY, HUNDREDS OF JAPANESE WARPLANES, LAUNCHED FROM AIRCRAFT CARRIERS FAR OUT AT SEA, ATTACH THE AMERICAN PACIFIC FLEET ANCHORED AT PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII. DECEMBER 8TH, US DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN DECEMBER 11TH GERMANY AND ITALY DECLARE WAR ON US