Important Dates from World War 2
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| 687257742 | 1931 | Japan invades Manchuria | |
| 687257743 | 1932 | Nazi Party becomes powerful in Germany | |
| 687257744 | January 1933 | Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany | |
| 687257745 | March 1933 | First concentration camp opens | |
| 687257746 | April 7 1933 | Hitler orders all non-aryans to be removed from government jobs | |
| 687257747 | September 1935 | Nuremberg Laws instituted against Jews in Germany | |
| 687257748 | October 1935 | Italian troops invade Ethopia | |
| 687257749 | March 1936 | Germany occupies the Rhineland | |
| 687257750 | July 1936 | Spanish Civil War begins | |
| 687257751 | July 1937 | Hideki Tojo invaded China | |
| 687257752 | March 12, 1938 | German troops march into Austria and annihilate them | |
| 687257753 | September 30, 1938 | Daladier and Chamberlain sign the Munich agreement to appease Hitler | |
| 687257754 | March 15, 1939 | German troops attack Czechoslovakia | |
| 687257755 | August 23, 1939 | Hitler and Stalin sign the non-agression pact | |
| 687257756 | September 1, 1939 | German air forces rain bombs over Poland blitzkreig is first used | |
| 687257757 | September 1939 | Roosevelt gets Congress to pass "cash-and-carry" policy which allowedwarring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships | |
| 687257758 | April 9, 1940 | Hitler launched a suprise attack against Denmark and Norway | |
| 687257759 | End of May, 1940 | Hitler overran Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium | |
| 687257760 | June 22, 1940 | Hitler forces French officers to surrender | |
| 687257761 | September 15, 1940 | RAF shot down over 185 German planes and only lost 26 aircraft | |
| 687257762 | November 9-10, 1938 | Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") takes place | |
| 687257763 | September 27, 1940 | Germany, Italy and Japan signed a mutual defense treaty and become known as the Axis Powers | |
| 687257764 | March 1941 | Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act | |
| 687257765 | June 1941 | Hitler broke the Munich Agreement and invaded the Soviet Nazis begin mass murder of Jews | |
| 687257766 | July 1, 1941 | A. Phillip Randolph demands that war industries hire African Americans | |
| 687257767 | September 1941 | Roosevelt had U.S. warships attack German U-boats | |
| 687257768 | November 5, 1941 | Tojo ordered Japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the United States | |
| 687257769 | December 7, 1941 | Japan bombs Pearl Harbor | |
| 687257770 | January 1942 | Roosevelt creates the War Production Board in order to coordinate mobilization | |
| 687257771 | January 20, 1942 | Nazis develop the "final solution" for exerminating Jews | |
| 687257772 | February 19, 1942 | Japanese are sent to relocation centers | |
| 687257773 | June 1942 | In the Pacific, the Battle of the Midway turns the tide in favor of the Allies | |
| 687257774 | Summer of 1943 | Zoot-suit riots rock Los Angeles | |
| 687257775 | May 13, 1943 | Rommel's forces surrender in North Africa | |
| 687257776 | June 6, 1944 | Allies launch a massive invasion of Europe (D-Day) | |
| 687257777 | June 22, 1944 | GI Bill of Rights is passed | |
| 687257778 | November 1944 | FDR elected to a fourth term as president | |
| 687257779 | March 1945 | Allies take Iwo Jima | |
| 687257780 | April 12, 1945 | death of FDR; Truman becomes president | |
| 687257781 | May 8, 1945 | Germany surrenders Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day) | |
| 687257782 | September 2, 1945 | Japan formally surrenders after nuclear bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
