Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1933

  • Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
1935

  • Italy invades Ethiopia
1935–1937

  • U.S. Neutrality Acts
1936

  • Germany reoccupies Rhineland demilitarized zone

  • Rome-Berlin Axis established
1937

  • Japan invades China
1938

  • Munich conference
1939

  • German-Soviet nonaggression pact

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany
1940

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan form alliance
1941

  • Germany invades Soviet Union

  • Lend-Lease Act and Atlantic Charter established

  • Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (December 7)
1942

  • Executive Order 9066 leads to Japanese internment camps

  • Battles of Coral Sea and Midway halt Japanese advance
1942–1945

  • Rationing of scarce goods
1943

  • Race riots in Detroit and Los Angeles
1944

  • D-Day: Allied landing in France (June 6)
1945

  • Yalta Conference (February)

  • Germany surrenders (May 7)

  • United Nations founded

  • Potsdam Conference (July–August)

  • United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9)

  • Japan surrenders (August 10)

Question

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