1931
Japan invades
China
Jan. 28, 1932 Chinese
are driven out of Shanghai
March 1, 1932 Puppet empire
of Manchuguo founded by the Japanese
1935
Japanese
invade Hebei and Inner Mongolia
Oct. 10, 1937
Japanese defeat the Chinese at Shijianchuang
Dec. 9, 1937
Nanjing is surrounded at the population is massacred
Dec. 25, 1937 Japanese
cross the Yellow River
Dec. of 1939
The Japanese are defeated in Guangzhou
Nov. 27, 1941 Japanese and
the Axis extend their cooperation for 5 years
Dec. 7, 1941
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
Dec. 11, 1941 U.S. declares
war on the Axis
Dec. 25, 1941 Hong Kong is
taken by Japan
Feb. 15, 1942 Singapore
falls to Japan
Jan 23, 1942
U.S. destroys a large part of a Japanese military convoy
April of 1942
Japan loses both the Battle of Coral Sea and the 4 day long Battle of
Midway
1943
Allies
retake various islands, such as the Gilbert Is., the Marshall Is., the
Mariana Is., etc.
Oct. 22-27
Americans defeat the Japanese at Leyte
Feb. 23, 1945 Manila falls
to the Allies
July 5, 1945
The Philippines are retaken
Feb. 19-Mar 17 Bitter fighting at
Iwo Jima
June 22
Okinawa is taken
July 26
Potsdam ultimatun
made
August 6, 1945 A-bomb
dropped on Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 Second
A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki
Sept. 2, 1945
Japanese sign surrender documents
European Theatre
1923
Hitler
leads failed revolt in Munich
1933
Hitler
takes over Germany as a
dictator
March of 1935 Germany
rebuilds armies despite the Treaty of Versailles
1935
Benito
Mussolini of Italy seizes Ethiopia
1938
Hitler
annexs Austria
Spet. of 1938
Hitler takes Czechoslovakia
Aug. 23, 1939 Nazis
and Soviets sign a non-aggression pact
Sept. 1, 1939
Hitler invades Poland
April 9, 1940
Germans invade Denmark
June 10, 1940
Allies withdraw from Norway
May 10, 1940
Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister; Hitler invades the
west
May 28
Belgians surrender;
British forced to evacuate at
Dunkirk
June 14
Germans enter Paris
June 27
French surrender
July 3, 1940
British attack French ships, fearing that they would fall
into German hands
Nov. of 1940
Invasion of Britain abandoned by Germans
Oct. 28, 1940
Italian invasion of Greece is beaten back
Feb., 1941
Germans bail out Italy by sending troops to North
African front
April 13, 1941
Russians and Japanese sign a non-aggression pact
April 23
Greece signs armistice with
Axis
May 20, 1941
Axis land on Crete
June 22, 1941
Hitler betray Stalin by invading the USSR
Nov. 15, 1941 German
advance on Moscow is beaten back
winter of 1941-2 Many German
troops die from the cold Russian winter
May of 1942
Erwin Rommel drives back British in North Africa
May 7, 1942
Axis destroyed in North Africa
Nov. 19, 1942 Germans
surrounded at destroyed at Stalingrad
August, 1943
Mussolini is overthrown in Italy
Sept. 3, 1943
Allies invade Italy to drive out the Axis
June 6, 1944
D-Day; Allies land at Normandy
Sept. 6, 1944
Allies are at German border
winter of 1945
Last German offensive defeated (Battle of the Bulge)
April 21, 1945
Soviets reached Berlin
April 30
Hitler commits suicide
May 7, 1945
Germany surrenders
