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Adolf Hitler
Adolf started the national socialist German workers aka the nazi party. In 1925 the first version on mein kampf which he wrote while he were in prison. Adolf were the main reason for the Second World War to begin. -
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world war 2
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Mussonini and Fascism
"Italy wants peace, work, and calm. I will give These things with love if possible, with force if necessary. "
Benito Mussolini -
Josef Stalin and the comunism
Josef Stalin grabs control of the soviet union and squelches all opposition after V. I. Lenin, founder of the communist regime, dies. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
International agreement not to use war as an instrument of national policy. -
Leader of U.S. Franklin Roosevelt
Was elected president in 1932 -
Holocaust
The systematic murder of 11 milion people across Europe, more that half of whom were Jews. -
Neutrality Acts
there where also signed three other neutrality acts in 1936, 1937, and 1939 to keep the US out of the war. -
Troops building up in the Rhineland
Hitler sent troops into the german region Rhineland who border up to France and Belgium -
troup build up in Ethiopia
Italy invades Ethopia -
Quarantine speech
the Quarantine Speech were a speech given by the US president Franklin Roosevelt on October 5 1937 in Chicago -
German troops march into Austria
US and the rest of the world did nothing -
Munich Pact
Hitler fooled the British prime minister and the French premier to sign the Munich Pact. -
Neville Chamberlain ''Peace with Honor''
''My friends,... There has come back from Germany peace with honor.'' Neville Chamberlain -
Winston Churchill- Appeasement
Churchchill thought signing the munich pact was the same as giving up principles to pacifi an aggressor. he said France and England had to chose between war or dishonor. -
Kristallnacht
Kristalnacht means crystal night- the night of broken glass- gangs og Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. -
Leader of Spain Francisco Franco
Spain were neutral during second World War -
Concentration camps
The Jews that didnt escape was arrested and taken to concentration camps where they were forced to work and if they werent able to work they were killed. some of the big concentration camps was auswitch and dachau -
Nonaggression Pact
Soviet Union and Germany signed a nonaggression pact -
Blitzkrieg
germany began blitzkrieg with germany. it was a surprise attack and then quickly crush all opponents. -
Soviets invade Finland
Soviet invadet Finland but Finland fighted back and it took 3 cold winter months until Soviet finally won -
The election of 1940
Roosevelt said that the Americans wouldnt go into the war except in case of attack -
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
Htler made an surprise attack on Denmark and Norway and used the excuse that it was to protect the countries freedom and independence -
Germany inade Belgium, Netherlands and Luxenburg
After Denmark and Norway was inviaded the German blitzkrig was turned to Belgium, Netherlands and Luxenburg -
Germany and Italy invade France
Germany outnumbered and outgunned the French and when Italy started to help Germany it didnt take long before the French surendered -
Battle of Britain
Luftwaffe made bombing runs over Britain for two solid months up to a 1000 flights a night. At first the Germans was focused on the aircraft factories and airfields but ended up going for the cities. on september 17 the Germans called of the invation of Britain -
Axis powers
Germany, Japan, and Italy where known as the axis powers because they signed the Tripartite Pact. -
Lend-Lease
The congress passed the Lend-Lease act in 1941 and supported it with $7 billion. in all the US spent $50 billion under the act -
Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill meet and made the document the Atlantic Charter. they wrote the causes that World War Two was Fought. -
Selective Service
The amount of people who wanted to join the army and be heroes were huge. People who were doing bad in school saw this as a grat chance to show that they where good at something and make their parents proud. -
Leader of Japan-Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo took the power of Japan in October 1941. he was discribed him as smart, hardboiled, resourceful. -
Pearl Harbor
Early in the morning Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a stunning victory for Japan. They had sunk or badly damaged 18 ships. About 350 planes had been destroyed or severely damaged. some 2400 people had died, and another 1178 had been wounded. -
War Plans w/ Churchill & FDR
Churchill came to the white house and spent the next 3 weeks working out war plans with FDR. They chose that the defeat of Germany was the Allies first priority. -
Industrial Response
The nations automobile plants had been retooled ito produce tanks, planes, boats, and command cars. -
Internment of Japanese
The government evauated Asian American because they were afraid that they were spies. -
The Battle of the Atlantic
Hitler ordered submarines raids against ships along the aerican East Coast. After seven months the German Wolf Packs had destroyed a total of 681 Alied ships in the Atlantic. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Germans were like a unstopable train until they came to Stalingrad they fought long and hard but Stalin ordered to do everything to not loose the city. Germany had most parts of Stalingrad but the russians keept on fighting and never gave up and in the end Germany surendered. -
Philippines, Corregidor, Doughlas Macarthur
In the Philippines, 80,000 American and Philipino troops comanded by General Doughlas Macarthur held out against 200,000 invaiding japanese troops for four months. But in the end Macarthur was ordered to abandon the Philippines. -
The Battle of the Coral Sea
A combined American and Australian fleet intercepted a Japanese strike force aimed at Austrailia. This confrontation established a new type of naval warfare. -
Women's Auxilary Army Corps (WAAC)
´´There is unnumerable duties now being performed by soldiers that could actually be performed better by women´´ George Marshal. 13,000 women applied to join the army on the first day the application were available. in all 250,000 served the army. -
The Battle of Midway
America was outnumbered four to one in ships and planes but they still attacked Japan in the battle of midway and with succes. -
A. Phillip Randolph
A. Phillip Randolph organised a march on washigton. Randolph called on blacks everywhere to come to the capital to march under the banner ''We Loyal Colored Americans Demand The Right To Work And Fight For Our Country.'' -
Guardalcanal
19,000 marines stormed Guardalcanal in the Solomon Islands. This was Japans first defeat on land but not its last -
The North African Front
Stalin wanted the Americans and the British to a second front on the Western Europe. They didnt think they had enough troops to do that so they invaded Axis controled North Africa. -
The Italian Campaign
The Alied thought that the best place to attack would be Italy it started good but ended up being a long fight who ended in 1945. -
D-Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgKo46X8CI' >Youtube video</a>The attack on Normandy where the biggest land-sea-air opperation in the history. -
The Battle of Leyte Gulf & Kamikazes
The Japanese threw all their entire fleet into the battle for Leute Gulf. They also tested a new tactic called Kamikaze where pilot would crash their bomb laden planes into Allied ships. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Americans captured their first German town in october and Hitler responded back with a surprising counterattack. The Germans brooke through the alied lines and hoped to shut down the Americans suplies. -
Nuremberg War Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were the punishment to big nazi leaders 12 were sentenced to death penalty. -
Yalta
Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had a meeting at the Soviet city of Yalta where they made a number of important desicions one of them where to create a new peace keeping body the United Nations (UN). -
The battle of Iwo Jima
The Americans wanted the island Iwo Jima so they could reach Japan with heavy loaded bombers. It was a really heavy defended with 20,700 Japanese in tunels ang caves. when America was doe with the island there was only 200 Japanese people left. -
The Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa was the last defensive outpost. more than 7,600 American lost their life but the Japanese lost 110,000 lives. -
Harry Truman becomes President
Roosevelt died while posing for a portrait in Warm Springs Georgia. Truman took over. -
Unconditional Surrender/V-E Day
The Soviet had stormed berlin everyone knew the war was lost for Germany. Hitler prepared for the end and wrote his last address to the German people in the address he blamed the Jews for starting the war and his generals for loosing it. -
Potsdam
Truman, Stalin, and Churchill meet in potsdam and disided to divide Germany into 4 zones or sectors. -
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan project was the building of atom bombs. People had many fears for the atom bombs one where that it would set the athmosphere on fire. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan's leaders hesitated to surender so Truman ordered the first bomb named little boy to hit Hiroshima. Japan still wouldnt surender and the second bomb named fat man was dropped on nagasaki. By the end of the year 200,000 had died as a result of injuries and radiation poisoning.