World War II Timeline of Events. 1921 Germany is forced to accept $32 billion reparations schedule The German mark collapses creating severe inflation.

World War II

Timeline of Events

1921 • Germany is forced to accept $32 billion reparations schedule

• The German mark collapses creating severe inflation

“For three Generations you’ll have to slave away!”

1923• France and Belgium

occupy the Ruhr b/c Germany defaults on reparations payments

• Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch

• Hitler writes Mein Kampf expressing his anti-semetic views and putting forth his “Final Solution”

1924

• Creation of the Dawes plan

• Germany’s economy begins to improve at a very slow rate

1929 • Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed outlawing war (60 nations but no enforcement powers)

1931• http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=mtMss6hKPBU 10 min

• Japanese Invasion of Manchuria (1931); puppet government of Manchukuo• Mukden incident

• Full-scale invasion of China in earnest by 1937• ‘Rape of Nanking’ (1937 --

300,000 civilians massacred by

• Japanese troops in French Indochina (1940)

• Japan occupies resources in Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

• 1932 FDR is elected Pres in the U.S.

1931 cont.

1933• Hitler is made Chancellor in

the Weimar Republic & begins a rearmament campaign

• Reichstag fire• National Socialist German

worker’s party win 43% of the Reichstag

• National boycott of Jewish businesses

• Public book burnings of Jewish authors

• Dachau is open initially for Communists, Socialists and labor leaders

• Japan & Germany withdraw from LoN

1934• Ernst Rohm and the SA

(Sturmabteilung), Nazi storm troopers that helped bring Hitler to power, were arrested and killed in the “Night of Long Knives”

• Nazi party is now the only legal political party.

• Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

• 30,000 are now interned. • August 2: Hindenburg

dies Hitler assumes the presidency

1935 • Anti-Jewish legislation “Nuremburg Laws” citizenship was revoked

1936 • Italy invades Ethiopia 1934

• Ethiopia asked the League of Nations for help – they had no military forces to send

• LoN placed economic sanctions on Italy for being an aggressor

• Italy announced Ethiopia is part of the Italian empire

1936 cont.• Olympics in Germany

• All anti-Jewish signs are removed until games are over

• Rome-Berlin Axis & Anti-Comintern Pact

• Hitler takes the Rhineland

• Franco comes to power in Spain

• FDR wins 2nd term

1937• Marco-Polo Bridge

Incident (China)• KMT-CCP Agreement

signed (China) ended the civil war in order to combine forces and free China from Japanese invaders

1938• U.S. Naval Expansion Act• Austria is annexed by

Germany• Kristallnacht – Nazi’s burn

synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses – seized assets

• Jewish children expelled from school (has previously been excluded from university)

• Czech placed Sudetenland under martial law & Hitler attacked and annexed the land

• Munich Conference - appeasement

Young onlookers watch as the local fire department prevents the fire from spreading to nearby houses, but makes no attempt to stop the synagogue from burning.

1939 • 9/17 Russia invades Poland, Baltics and Finland

• Poland partitioned Germany begins “blitzkrieg” campaign

• U.S. Neutrality Act

1939 cont• WWII breaks out• Germany annexes the rest of

Czechoslovakia. British pledges to aid Poland "at once . . . with all the support in their power” (declare war on Ger.)

• The Jewish refugee ship the St. Louis arrives in Belgium after being denied access to Cuba and the U.S.

• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

• Ger & S.U. wage war & divide Poland

• U.S creates Cash & Carry Policy

1940 • Jan. Britain begins East Africa Campaign against the Italians

• May U.S. fleet relocated to the Pacific as a deterrent

• June 22 France falls to the Nazi’s• Vichy Government is

set up in southern France

• June10 Battle of Britain• Dec. Lend-Lease Act• FDR gets a 3rd term

After the Battle of Britain

1940 cont.

• The deportations of Gypsies• German troops invade Denmark

and Norway. • British forces land in Norway. • Ger invaded Holland, Belgium,

and Luxembourg. • British troops enter Belgium.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; Winston Churchill becomes new Prime Minister.

• 5/15 Holland surrenders• 5/28 Belgium surrenders • 6/3 Norway surrenders • 6/10 Italy declares war on G.B &

Fr. • 6/14 Germans enter Paris

1941• March 11: FDR signs Lend-

Lease Bill. • April 6: Germany invades

Greece and Yugoslavia. • April 13: Germans occupy

Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Russo-Japanese neutrality pact signed.

• June 22: Germany attacks the S.U.

• June - July: Over 62,000 Jews are murdered in western Russia.

• August 11: Churchill & FDR sign the Atlantic Charter, establishing the war aims of both nations.

1941 cont• December 7: Britain declares

war on Finland, Hungary, and Rumania.

• December 8: Britain & the U.S declare war on Japan. Japan invades Malaya.

• 12/7 Pearl Harbor attacked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e6h9h7ky0E attack scene 10 min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE (FDR speech)

• December 9: Japan invades Philippines.

• December 11: Ger & It declare war on U.S.

1942• February 19: By order of FDR,

Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast are transferred to internment camps in the interior of the country.

• April 10: Japan captures Bataan. By June, Japan controls the Philippines.

• May 4-8: Battle of Coral Sea. http://military.discovery.com/videos/world-war-ii-in-color-battle-of-the-coral-sea.html 3 min

• June 3-6: Battle of Midway Island. http://military.discovery.com/videos/20th-century-battlefields-episode-4-1942-midway.html 2 min

• August 5-31: Germans advancing in Russia.

• August 7: Americans land on Guadalcanal.

• November 8: U.S. & G.B. land in French North Africa. Animated map

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch_ani_north_africa_campaign.shtml

1943• January 14: FDR and Churchill

meet at Casablanca, decide on a policy of "Unconditional Surrender."

• January 31: Ger. Gen. surrender to the Soviets at Stalingrad.

• May 13: Ger. surrender in Tunisia.

• July 10: Allies invade Sicily. • July 25: Benito Mussolini is

dismissed by King Victor Emmanuel in Italy and is arrested. Attempts to escape to is caught, assassinated beaten & hung.

• August 2: Eight days of Allied bombing in Hamburg, Germany.

• August 17: Allied conquest of Sicily.

1943 cont.

• August - December: The United States lands on the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, New Georgia and the Gilbert Islands.

• September 3: Italy forms armistice with Allies.

• September 8: Italy surrenders.

• October 13: Italy declares war on Germany.

• November 22-26: Cairo conference between Churchill and FDR

• November 28: Teheran conference between the Big Three: Churchill, FDR and Joseph Stalin, of the Soviet Union.  

1944• January 22: Allies land in Anzio,

It. • February 3: Ger. offensive at

Anzio. • March 22: Japanese invade

India. • April 10-18: Soviet success

against the Germans in Crimea. • June 4: Allies occupy Rome. • June 6: D-Day interactive map

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch_ani_d_day.shtml

• June 19-20: Battle of the Philippine Sea, Allied victory over Japanese forces.

• June 22: The G. I. Bill of Rights passed.

• June 23: Russians start offensive on Central Front.

• July 20: Failed attack to kill Hitler.

• July 24: American forces land in the Marianas Islands.

1944 cont

• July 27: Americans break Ger. lines in Normandy.

• August 17: Japan removed from India.

• August 25: Paris liberated by the Allies.

• October Allies land in Greece, Russians enter East Prussia.

• October 19: Americans in Philippines.

• November 7: FDR is elected for his fourth term; Harry S Truman VP.

• November 28-29: First American night air attack on Tokyo.

• December 16-26: Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive in the west.

1945• February 4: Am. enter Manila:

Yalta Conference. • February 13: Dresden raid. • February 19: Americans land

on Iwo Jima. April 1 Okinawa.• March 18: Air-raid on Berlin. • March 23: Allies cross the

Rhine. • April 12: FDR dies, Harry S

Truman becomes president. • April 20: Am. capture

Nuremberg. • April 29: Dachau concentration

camp is overrun by United States soldiers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PNjQi1Pmkc

• May 1: Hitler commits suicide.

1945 cont

• May 2: Berlin surrenders to Russian forces.

• May 4: German forces in Holland, North-West Germany, and Denmark surrender.

• May 7: Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Britain, Russia, and the United States.

• May 8: V-E Day: German surrender confirmed.

• June 26: U.N. charter is signed. • July 5: Liberation of Philippines

complete.

1945 cont.

• July 16: Potsdam conference ends. Meanwhile, the first atomic bomb is exploded in a test at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

• July 26: Potsdam Declaration is delivered to Japan.

• August 2: Potsdam conference ends.

• August 5: Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq_Wye43TM BBC Film clip 5 min

• August 8: Russia declares war on Japan.

• August 9: Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.

• August 14: Japan accepts Allied terms.

• August 15: V-J Day.

WHEWF!!!! We just ran through WWII in a week!

Really?!