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Leader of Italy
Mussolini started the fascious society in italy. it got 35 seats in the italian parliment. Fiscism is the political movement that has a centralized goverment with one dictator. -
Leader of The Solviet Union
J oseph stalin took control of the solviet union. he watched five year plans to make them an industrial power. 1930's the great purge came, which was the killing of 8 million solviets that were part of the communist parties because the dissagreed with the govermants pollicies it was a complete communist society by 1939 -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
A lie that the USA made with 61 other countries stating that they would never make war again. Hahaha LIES. -
Leader of Germany
Hitler was appointed chanceler or prime minister of germany. the depression led to paniced citezens who looked to hitler. he beleived in extreme nationalizm and racizm, it is similar to facisim. -
Consentration Camps
Consentration camps were a place that nazis could take jews to tourture and kill them. -
Holocaust
The holocaust was the systimatic killing of jews. -
Rhineland Troop Build-up
Buildup broke treatiy, In 1936 rhineland troops demilitarzed because of the treaty -
Neutrality Acts.
first two outlawed arms deals and loans to nations at war. -
Troop buildup in Etheopia
tens of thousands of troops ready to attack etheopia. By this date Etheopia had fallen. -
German troops march into Austria
Hitler wanted Schuschnigg to bring Austrian Nazis into his government. Schuschnigg changed his mind, thus provocing an invasion -
Muniich pact
Sudentenland was turned over to Germany without any violence -
Neville Chamberlain
He gave in to Hitlers dimands and made peace. He returned to britain a hero who had. -
Winston Churchill
He said that Neville chose dishonor over war also known as appeasement, for he did as his enemy disired in order to avoid violence. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi Storm troopers broke the windows of jewish stores and homes. -
Quarentine speach
FDR gave a speach telling nations to segregate raicals. -
Axis Powers
The axis powers were the leaders of germany, italy, and japan. -
Francisco Franco
Franco had a developing fascious goverment, the USA sent some troops over to stop it. Hitler and Mussolini sent wepons to spain. eventualy spain became totalitarian. -
Frankin Roosivelt
he wanted to remain neutral while helping frace and britain.giving money to them didnt help and eventualy france fell. the us started sending mass ammounts of wepons to britain and upped their defences. -
Nonaggression pact
this was an aggrement between Germany and the Soviet Union -
Blitzkrieg
A quick large attack that overwelmed and took people off gaurd. This is what Germany first used against Poland -
Soviets invade finland
Stalin sent his ary to Finland and after 3 mouths Finland surrendered. -
Germans invade Denmark and Norway
Hitler launched a supprise attack on Denmark And Norway. He said that it was to protect their freedom. -
Germans invade Belgium, Netherlands, and Lexembourg
He continued his blitzkrieg stratagy and quickly overran the countries. -
Germany and Italy invade France
Germany, with the help of Italy invaded france. Within a mounth Hitler gave France his terms of surrender. -
Battle of Britain
Germany bombed Britain for many mounths, yet Britains military faught back, with the help of radar and Hitler eventualy ended his attack on them. -
Election of 1940
Roosevelt was re-elected for the third time by 55% of votes. his opponent also supported helping brittain. -
Lend-lease
roosevelt started the Lend-Lease program where america would lend or lease arms to any country that needed the assistance to help USA. -
A. Philip Randolph
Randolph faught for Blacks to have the right to fight for their country. Rosevelt tried to battle this at first and eventualy said that there shall be no discrimination of race. -
Atlantic Charter
during the draft extention vote, roosevelt met with churchill to make an agreement caled the Atlantic Charter. it basicly stated that the US and the UK werent seeking land, and other things -
Hideki Tojo
he was a japaneese militan general turned prime minister. the same day he sent a envoy for peace he orderd the military to attack the USA. -
Pearl Harbor
japan attacked pearl harbor in Hawaii it ladted for only an hour and a half but the damage was devistating. -
War plans w/ Churchill and FDR
take Germany out firt and to damant an unconditional surrender. -
Selective service (and the G.I)
The selective service expanded the US draft so that we had 10 million troops. G.I was a term mening government issue, it was not originaly given as a title for troops, yet it eventualy caught on. -
Internment of Japanese
People were scared of Japanese Americans, so the the government shiped them to internment camps. About two thirds of which were Nisei (American citizens) -
Philippines, Corregidor, Douglas Macarthur
80,000 americans led by Douglas MacArthur held off 200,000 japanese troops in the philippines. -
Battle of coral sea
Australian ships intercepted japanese ships and attacked starting the battle of coral sea. it redefined naval warfare. -
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
WAAC aloud women to volunteer for army, yet they would have less pay, rank, and benifits. There was some people who thought that this would make our reputation worse. 250000 women voluntired in the war -
Battle of Midway
Admeral Chester Nimitz interceptedjapanese ships at midway using the same combat at in corral sea. -
Industrial Response
Factories converted themselve and began to make parts that could be used in the war. Henry J. Kaiser made massive ship yards and build ships out of premade pieces and could conplete ships increadibly fast. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad was an industrial center on the Volga. It lead to Soviet union and it was one of hitlers priorities. Stalin had his troops fight for mounths and before they lost they make a counter attack and the Germans surrendered. -
The Battle of the Atlantic
Germans were destroying US ships fast along the east coast. We made more organized movements and protected ourselves with sonar. They couldnt make subs as fast as we destroyed them. -
The North African Front
We invaded the axis controled North africa in order to divert Germany from the Soviets. We destroyed all oposition by the Afrika korps. -
The Italian Campaign
We dicided to attack Italy. The took Mussolini out of office, yet Germany quickly put him back in and stationed troops. It took many mounths of fighting, yet we finaly drove the Germans out of Italy. -
D-Day
We traveled accross the english channel with a paratrooper drop and the overal largest offensive front in history. Over 150000 troops traveled to deferent locations to begin the attack on Germany. We suffered heavy casualtie yet we prevailed. -
The Battle of the Bulge
The Germans broke through allie lines. McAuliffe made a last stand in Bastagne. He faught for mouths and eventualy pushed the back killing thousands of troops. This breaking of our lines was due to our ignorance of interperting intelligence. -
Guadacanal
Guadacanal was the first japaneese defeat on land in the philipines -
Battle of Leyte gulf
178,000 alied troops were in the battle, also 424 Kamikaze (suicide) pilots were involved. -
Yalta
It was a confrence that was held that dicided to create the United Nations and made a few other disisions. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was the best defended place in the world with over 20,700 japaneese troops. after the battle only 200 soldiers survived. -
Truman becomes President
Whle posing for a portrait FDR had a stroke and died. Truman later took over that night. -
Unconditional Surrender/v-E Day
Hitler was paniced. He killed himself. Germans were running scared for we had Berlin over run. V-E Day was Victory in Europe Day. This was the begining og the end. -
The Battle of Okinawa
Huge battle at the end of the war. the Japanese destroyed many ships with comicosie. -
The Manhattan Project
groups of scientists worked on a bomb that could level a city. J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the oporation. -
Potsdam
It was dicided hire that Germany would be divided up amoung France Great Britain United States and Soviet Union. Berlin was also divided. Demanded justice on war criminals. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Bombs were droped on these cities killing 200000 people by the years end. Empeeror Hirohito didnt want his people to die anymore so he surrendered. -
Nuremberg War Trials
many German leaders were sentenced to death or inprisonment. This was the first time that leaders were held responsible for their actions.
