Interactive Timeline – 1929-1945

correct incorrect Oct U.S. stock market crash sparks global depression

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sept Japan invades and annexes Manchuria

correct incorrect Nov Roosevelt elected

correct incorrect Mar Roosevelt inaugurated

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jan Adolf Hitler becomes German chancellor

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Japan quits League of Nations

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Germany quits League of Nations

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov U.S. recognizes Soviet Union

correct incorrect Aug Congress pass first of several Neutrality Acts

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Italy invades Ethiopia

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar German troops occupy Rhineland in defiance of Versailles Treaty

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Spanish Civil War begins

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov–Dec Germany and Italy create "Axis" alliance, Germany and Japan sign Anti-Comintern Pact

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Japan invades China

correct incorrect Dec United States begins economic aid to China

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Germany annexes Austria

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Munich Agreement sacrifices Czechoslovakia

correct incorrect Aug Albert Einstein's warning to FDR about German atomic research spurs creation of U.S. atomic program

correct incorrect Sep War in Europe begins; U.S. arms sales to British and French put on "cash and carry" basis

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May German-Italian alliance

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep German invasion of Poland results in outbreak of Second World War

correct incorrect Sep United States begins peacetime draft

correct incorrect Sep United States transfers warships to British Navy

correct incorrect Nov Roosevelt reelected to third term

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May German Blitzkrieg in western Europe

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jun France surrenders to Germany

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Germany-Japan-Italy sign Tripartite Pact (Axis Alliance)

correct incorrect Jan FDR delivers "Four Freedoms" speech and proposes Lend-Lease aid program

correct incorrect Mar Lend-Lease passed by Congress

correct incorrect Jul United States embargoes oil sales to Japan

correct incorrect Aug Atlantic Charter issued by Roosevelt and Churchill

correct incorrect Sep-Dec Undeclared U.S.-German naval war in Atlantic

correct incorrect Dec Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

correct incorrect Dec Germany and Italy declare war on United States

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jun Germany invades Soviet Union

correct incorrect Jan United States and Allies issue "Declaration of the United Nations" and form Grand Alliance

correct incorrect Apr Internment of Japanese Americans; Doolittle raid on Japan

correct incorrect Jun U.S. naval victory at Midway

correct incorrect Nov U.S. forces invade North Africa

correct incorrect Jan Casablanca Conference

correct incorrect Nov–Dec Conferences in Cairo and Tehran

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Feb German forces defeated at Stalingrad

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Italy surrenders

correct incorrect Jun D-Day landings in France

correct incorrect Jun GI Bill of Rights passed

correct incorrect Jul Bretton Woods Economic Conference

correct incorrect Nov Roosevelt reelected to fourth term

correct incorrect Dec Battle of the Bulge

correct incorrect Feb Yalta Conference

correct incorrect Feb Battle of Iwo Jima begins

correct incorrect Mar Tokyo firebombed; battle for Okinawa begins

correct incorrect Apr Roosevelt dies; Harry Truman becomes president

correct incorrect Jun United Nations Charter signed

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr Hitler commits suicide

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Germany surrenders

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug Japan surrenders after atomic bombing and Soviet entry into war