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World War II
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Benito Mussolini & Fascism
Mussolini begins rise of power in Italy -
Joseph Stalin and Communism
Joseph Stalin comes to power in the USSR. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
61 nations signed a pact that said they would never make war again. -
Franklin Rosevelt U.S.
Elected president of the United States -
Adolf Hitler and Nazism
Hitler rose to power and became chancellor he published a book before he was elected called Mein Kamf which in german means my struggle -
Holocaust (anti-Semitism)
Hitler ordered all non-Aryans to be removed from government jobs. This act was the first move in a campaign for racial purity and eventually turned into a Holocaust. Anti-Semitism means to be against Jewish people -
Ethiopia
Tens of thousands of Italian soldiers advance on Ethiopia. -
Francisco Franco
He was a general for the Fascist army and rose to leader of Spain. -
Rhineland
German Troops build up in Rhineland, a region in Germany bordering France and Belgium. -
Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts is an act that helps a country remain neutral and this was put in affect in order to keep the U.S. neutral -
Quarantine Speech
Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave this speech saying that they should quarantine Germany, Japan, and Italy. -
German troops march into Austria
Hitler sent Nazi troops into Austria in order to convince Nazi Austrians to be on his council. -
Munich Pact
Turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a shot being fired. -
Neville Chamberlain-"Peace with Honor"
Chamberlain was a Brittish prime minister sent to meet with Hitler and Hitler told him that they had no furter plans to besides Sudetenland and he chose to believe him -
Kristallnact
This is the day when thousands of Nazi troops broke into thousands of Jewish homes and businesses capturing many Jews -
Winston Churchill- "Appeasement"
Gave up principles to pacify the Axis Powers. -
Soviets invade Finland
Stalin sends troops to invade Finland and after 3 months of intense fighting the outnumbered Fins surrender -
Nonaggression Pact
The Soviet Union and Germany signed a pact not to fight -
Blitzkrieg
The German Army invaded Poland with Blitzkrieg, or a sudden and massive attack with air and land forces. -
Axis Powers
Japan, Germany, and Italy signed the Tripartite Act, which was a mutual defense treaty, and the three nations became known as the Axis Powers. -
Concentration Camps (genocide)
Many races inluding Jews, Gypsies, and other races were hoarded into trucks, trains, and other forms of transportation to these holding camps -
Election of 1940
Rosevelt was re-elected again and said that he would only defend the U.S. if we went to war -
Germans Invade Denmark & Norway
HItler unleashed a surprise attack and Hitler did this because "they needed to protect those countries freedom and independence." -
Germans invade Belgum, Netherlands, and Luxembourg
The Germans sent troops to control the countries and the fighting finally ended in May -
Germany & Italy Invade France
HItler handed the French their terms for surrender. Germany would occupy Northern France, and there would be a Nazi government. -
Battle of Britain
Hitler sent thousands of planes on bombing runs over Britain throughout the summer pummeling the city -
Lend - Lease Act
Allowed the United States to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis powers. -
Atlantic Charter
In this document causes for WW2 were spelled out -
Selective Service(& the G.I.)
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor many eager American men signed up for the military -
Philippines, Corregidor, Douglas MacArthur
80,000 American and Filipino troops commanded by Douglas MacArthur. They held off 200,000 Japanese troops for four months on Corregidor. He eventually was forced to leave. -
Leader of Japan - Hideki Tojo
A Japanese military general who became the prime minister in Japan. -
Pearl Harbor
Thousands of Japanese planes bombed the harbor where many of our war ships were held -
War Plans with Churchhill and FDR
Churchill arrived at the White House to meet with FDR to discuss plans on how to defeat the Germans -
Womens Auxiliary Army Corps(WAAC)
Many jobs in the military were made for men but now other jobs could be held by women. -
Industrial Response
Many car factories were now being made into factories where planes, tanks, and boats would be built -
A. Phillip Randolph
Was the leader of protests against black discrimination in the army -
Manhattan Project
The U.S. project to develop an atomic bomb for use. -
Internment of Japaneese
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor many Japanese Americans were sent to these holding camps in fear of another attack. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Thousands of German troops closed on the city to capture shipping roots to secure oil. -
The Battle of the Coral Sea
A combined Australian and American fleet of ships intercepted the Japanese aimed at a strike at Australia. The confrontation was all planes, and no ships fired anything. -
The Battle of the Atlantic
After the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Hitler launched a series of attacks on the U.S. ships of the east coast -
Batlle of Midway
The Americans learned that a 110 fleet of Japanese ships were heading to the island Midway. The Americans won this fight. -
Guadalcanal
The first ground attack by Americans in WWII. It marked the first loss of land of the Japanese in the war. -
North Atlantic front
Eisenhower sent many troops off the coast of Russia to pressure the Germans and hope to draw them away from Stalingrad. -
The Italian Front
The campaign was sent in order to capture German fronts -
D-Day
Thousands of allied troops poured on to the beaches of Normandy France to take out the German stronghold -
Battle of the Bulge
The alleied troops counter attacked the lines that the Germany held in Belgium. This battle was argually one of the battles with the most casualties in World War 2 -
Battle of Leyte Gulf & Kamikazes
Japanese threw entire fleet into this battle. The Americans retook the Philipines in this battle with the help of Douglas MacArthur. Kamikazes were suicide bombers that flew into ships to sink them. -
Yalta
The Yalta Conference was a meeting when the leaders of the U.S. England, and the Soviet Union agreed on a set of rules to be implemented after the defeat of Germany. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The island was a critical base for America for large bombers to reach Japan. It was debated to be the most heavily guarded place on Earth, with 21,000 Japanese troops. Americans won, leaving only 200 Japanese alive. -
Harry Truman becomes President
Roosevelt had a stroke and died in April 1945. Truman became president that night. -
Unconditional Surrender/V-E Day
On May 8th 1945 president Eisenhower accepts the unconditional surrender from the Third Reich, the first part of the war was over so it was called V-E day or victory in Europe day -
Battle of Okinawa
The battle of Okinawa killed 7,000 American lives, but 110,000 Japanese lives were claimed. -
Potsdam
In addition to the Yalta conference, Potsdam was a conference when the three countries agreed to "stern justice shall be meted out to all war criminals, including those who have visited cruelties on our prisoners." -
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Atomin bombs were dropped on these cities and over 200,000 casualities occured. -
Nuremberg War Trials
The court proceedings in Germany in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes. 12 of the 22 defendants were sentenced to death, and the rest to prison.
