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| 1931 | Japan invades Manchuria |
| 1933 |
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany U.S. establishes diplomatic relations with Soviet Union |
| 1935 |
Neutrality Act passed Nye Committee hearings Italy invades Ethiopia |
| 1936 |
Spanish Civil War begins Germany reoccupies Rhineland |
| 1937 |
Japan launches invasion of China Japan attacks U.S. gunboat Panay |
| 1938 | Germany annexes Austria (Anschluss) |
| 1939 |
Munich Conference (appeasement) Nazi-Soviet non-agression pact Germany invades Czechoslovakia Germany invades Poland World War 2 begins |
| 1940 |
Soviet Union invades Baltic states, Finland Germany's blitzkrieg war conquers most of western Europe Germany, Italy, Japan sign Tripartite Agreement America First Committee established Roosevelt wins unprecedented third term as president U.S. and Britain sign destroyer-for-bases deal Selective Service Act passed |
| 1941 |
Lend-Lease aid provided for Britain Germany invades Soviet Union Atlantic Charter signed by Churchill and Roosevelt Japan occupies Indochina Japan attacks Pearl Harbor Hitler and Mussolini declare war on U.S. U.S. enters war |
| 1942 |
Japan captures Philippines as Bataan and Corregidor fall War Production and War Labor Boards created Battle of Midway North Africa campaign begins War Production Board created Internment of Japanese-Americans begins Manhattan Project begins |
| 1943 |
Americans take Guadalcanal Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad Allies invade Italy Tehran Conference |
| 1944 |
Allies invade France at Normandy (D-Day) Roosevelt elected for fourth term Americans recapture Philippines island-hopping campaign retakes Guam and Saipan |
| 1945 |
Yalta Conference Roosevelt dies, succeeded by Truman Allied troops liberate concentration camps Hitler commits suicide Soviets capture Berlin Germany surrenders Americans capture Okinawa Posdam Conference U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan surrenders |
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
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