World War II Timeline

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Rise of Dicators

World War II

August 23, 1939

March 11, 1941

December 7, 1941

June 6, 1944

August 6, 1945

August 9, 1945

August 15, 1945

October 24, 1945

November 1945 - October 1946

December 16, 1968

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World War II

Previous Units

World War I

Russian/ Bolshevik Revolution

Treaty of Versailles Signed

Stalin rules as dictator of USSR

Chinese Civil War

Mao Zedong rules as dictator of China

Rise of Dicators

Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy

Hitler writes Mein Kampf

Mussolini creates a dictatorship in Italy (1925)

Great Depression

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Hitler creates a dictatorship in Germany (1934)

Italy invades Ethiopia (Africa)

Japan invades Manchuria (China)

Munich Conference (1938)

Germany invades Poland (1939)

World War II

World War II (1939-1945)

German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed (1939)

Holocaust (1941-1945)

U.S. signed the Lend-Lease Act (1941)

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor (1941)

Germany loses Battle of Stalingrad (1943)

D-Day invasion (1944)

Germany surrenders (May 1945)

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6 1945)

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Aug 9 1945)

Japan surrenders (Aug 15 1945)

United Nations replaces League of Nations (Oct 1945)

Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946)

U.N. writes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Dec 1968)

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