Time Line Activity 26; World War II

2. Complete devastation of cities forces Japan to surrender.

Year: 1945 Event: U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

5. Germany occupies and annexes Austria.

Year: 1936 Event: Germany occupied Rhineland

3. Germany and Italy aid the Nationalist forces led by Franco against the opposing Loyalist forces.

Year: 1936 Event: Spanish Civil War begins

1. Nation is divided; Germans occupy the capital and the northern half, while collaborationist government is set up in southern part in the city of Vichy.

Year: 1940 Event: Germans enter Paris & France surrenders

4. Foreign aggression in the Pacific brings the United States into the war.

Year: 1941 Event: Japan attacks U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor

6. Counterattack launched to roll back Axis forces from Italian peninsula.

Year: 1935 Event: Italy invades Ethiopia