| year | See World War II Timeline for more details. Emery Reeves, a hungarian immigrant, known for his books, Democratic Manifesto and Anatomy of Peace, stated that keeping peace rested on the shoulders of English speaking nations, and that had the US sent 25,000 - 50,000 troops to Germany to prevent its military buildup, WWII could have been prevented altogether and that the US had known, but chose not to interfere with the problems of Europe or Asia (Monroe doctrine, 1823). | |
| 1921 |
Adolf Hitler is in control of National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) party | |
| 1925 |
Benito Mussolini becomes a dictator in Italy | |
| 1931 |
September 18 |
Japanese army invades Manchuria |
| 1935 |
October 5 |
Italian army invades Ethiopia |
| 1937 |
July 7 |
Japan invades China (Shanghai) |
| 1938 |
March 12 |
Germany invades Austria, and later Czech Sudetenland |
| 1939 |
March 15 |
Germany invades Czechslovakia |
| September 1 |
Germany army invades Poland. Two days later Britain and France declare war on Germany | |
| 1940 |
Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France | |
| July 10 |
Battle of Britain begins | |
| September 27 |
Tripartite alliance formed between Germany, Italy and Japan | |
| 1941 |
June 22 |
Germany invades the Soviet Union |
| December 7 |
Japanese invades US naval base at Pearl Harbor | |
| 1943 |
February 2 |
German Sixth Army surrenders to the Russians |
| 1944 |
June 6 |
Invasion of Europe by Allied forces begins at Normandy |
| 1945 |
April 28 |
Mussolini hanged by Italians. Two days later Hitler commits suicide |
| August 15 |
Japan's surrender ends WWII.
copy (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
Total caualties: 72 million. Germany (7.2 million), Italy (.5 million),
Japan (2.6 million), US (.4 million), UK (.5 million), Soviet Union (26.2
million), China (20 million) |