Timeline of the Road to WWII
American Cultures
Mr Gatz/Mrs Gilbert – Fall 2014
March 1936
March 1938
Sept. 1938
March 1939
Germany
Reoccupies the
Rhineland
Germany
Occupies
Austria
Hitler allowed
to occupy the
Sudetenland
Hitler occupies
Western
Czechoslovakia
April 1940
Germany
attacks
Denmark and
Norway
May 1940
Germany invades
Luxemburg,
Belgium, and
France
June 1940
August 1940
France
Surrenders
Battle for
Britain Begins
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Sept. 1939
Hitler invades
Poland
(divides w/USSR)
Leaders of WWII
France - Edouard Daladier
Britain – Neville Chamberlain
- Winston Churchill
US – Franklin Roosevelt
- Harry Truman
USSR – Joseph Stalin
Germany – Adolf Hitler
Italy – Benito Mussolini
Japan – Emperor Hirohito