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Hitler ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from Government jobs.
This order was one of the first moves in a campaign for racial purity. -
Hitler met secretley with his top military advisers.
Declared that he needed the land of its neighbors and had a plan to absorb Austria and Czek into the Third Reich. -
German troops marched into Austria opposed.
A day later, Germany announced its Union with Austria was complete. -
The Munich Agreement was signed.
Turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot fired. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synogogues. This is also known as "Night of the Broken Glass." -
German troops poured into Czekoslovakia.
Hitler gloated, "Czekoslovakia has ceased to exist." -
Germany and Russia commited to never attack eachother.
Germany and Soviet Union also signed a secret pact to divide Poland between eachother. -
German air force roared over Poland. raining bombs on military bases.
Bombs were also dropped on airfields, railroads, and cities. -
Britain and France declared war on Germany.
Major fighting was over in three weeks. -
Hitler launched a surprise invasion on Denmark and Norway.
He did this in order to "protext those countires' freedom and independence. -
Hitler handed French officers his terms of surrender.
The whole world watched, including William Shirer. -
The RAF shot down over 185 German planes.
At the same time, they lost only 26 aircraft. -
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a mutual defense treaty, the Tripartite Pact. The three nations became known as the Axis Powers. -
Hitler invades Soviet Union.
Nazis used the code name of "Barbarossa" for this invasion. -
German submarine fired on the US destroyer "Greer" in the Atlantic.
Roosevelt ordered navy commanders to respond. -
Hideki Tojo ordered the Japanese navy to prepare for an attack on the United States.
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Roosevelt says, "This means war."
Roosevelt recieved a decoded message that instructed Japan's peace envoy to reject all American peave proposals. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
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Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
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Final Solution
Nazis develope the "final solution" for exterminating jews. -
Japanese Americans are sent to relocation centers.
United States Government ordered this to happen after the attack of Pearl Harbor. -
Chester Nimitz's scout planes found the Japanese fleet.
Americans sent torpedo planes and dive bombers to the attack. -
19,000 troops stormed Guadalcanal in the Salmon Islands.
Six months later, they called it the Island of Death. -
Allies invade Europe on D-Day.
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Roosevelt was elected for his fourth term.
FDR remains the only president to serve more than two terms. -
Roosevelts death.
Roosevelt had a stroke while posing for a portrait in Georgia, and died. -
Hitler commits suicide.
Used a pistol to end his life in his underground bunker. -
President Truman orfdered the military to make final plans for dropping atomic bombs.
They planned to drop these bombs on Japanese targets. -
Enola Gay, famous atomic bomber.
He released an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, an importanty Japenese Military Center. -
Japan surrenders.
After atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan finally surrenders.
