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Period: to
wwII
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:renounced war as an instrument of national policy
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR was elected president 4 times in a row -
Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany
his followers honored him by burning 20,000 "non Aryan" books -
The Italian leader, Benito Mussolini invades Ethiopia
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Congress passed the first Neutrality act on this date
to remain neutral in the world war -
Germany invades and occupies the Rhineland
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FDR gives his "Quarantine Speech"
anti-socialist speech -
Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. -
Germany invades Austria
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Munich pact was made in Munich, Germany
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Neville Chamberlain
signed the munich pact and returned to his country saying that there was peace with honor -
Winston Churchill
believed that by signing the Munich pact Chamberlain had just simply given up or gone for "appeasement" -
Kristallnacht: a name given to the night when gangs of nazi storm troopers invaded homes of jewish people
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Stalin made a non-agression pac with nazi Germany
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Europe now had yet another totalitarian government under Francisco Franco
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Cocentration camps
concentration camps were used during WWII to detain and torture or brutally murder Jews and other people -
Finland resisted the Soviets causng the Soviets to invade
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blitzkrieg: lightning war,
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Britain and Germany fight the Battle of Britain
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Holocaust: the systematic murder of 11million Jews and other people by the Nazis before and during WWII
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Axis Powwers were the group of nations- Germany, Italy, and Japan- that opposed the allied forces during WWII
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Selective Service (& the G.I.)
The selective srevice is the draft of the army it was established by fdr in 1940. -
Germany invades Belgium, Netherlands, & luxembourg
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The North African Front
This battle was to control parts of egyption deserts. -
The Election of 1940
Franklin d. Roosevelt broke tradition and ran for a third term and won by a landslide. -
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler said this was necessary to protect those countries -
Germany & Italy invade france
Marshal Henri Petain said they needed to stop fighting. -
the Lend-Lease act allowed the U.S. to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the axis powers
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Atlantic Charter
the declaration of the U.S.'s and Great Britain's goals set to oppose the axis forces -
Womens Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
This was a group of women fighting to be in the u.s army -
War plans w/ churchill & FDR
FDR did such a great job during the war he got elected twice -
Guadalcanal
Japan attacked the u.s injuring many. -
Hideki Tojo
The Prime Minister of Japan ordered the Japanese navy to attack pearl harbor on this date the same date that his "peace" envoy flew to the U.S. for talks -
The attack on Pearl Harbor
Early morning on this date in 1941 a Japanese dive bomber, followed by 180 Japanes war-planes, executed an attack on Pearl Harbor -
Internment of Japanese
This was a fight to stop japanese concentration camps america stepped in. -
The battle of Stalingrad
The german army fought the soviet union to keep control of stelingrad. -
Phihppines,Corregidor,Douglas MacArthur
The u.s heldout at corregidor for 27 days -
The battle of midway
Japan was emune from air attack they relized they needed stronger deffense -
The battle of the coral Sea
The battle of the coral sea was fought in southwest islands U.s vs japan -
The italian campaign
The united states joined forces with italy -
D-Day
The u.s invaded Germany -
The battle of the bulge
The German army was doing anything to take the west from the u.s -
Industrial Response
The u.s joined other groups to fight the war. -
A. Phillip Randolph
He was the leader of black labor -
The battle of the Atlantic
The u.s navy went against the german army in the Atlantic ocean -
Unconditional Surrender/V-E Day
The German army surrenderd the west to the u.s
