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Chapter 17, Section 1 - The Nazi Party
Hitler joined a small political group that became the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party. -
Chapter 17, Section 1 - Mussolini Appointed Prime Minister of Italy
Mussolini had become such a powerful figure that when he threatened to march on Rome, the king panicked and appointed him prime minister. -
Chapter 17, Section 3 - The Manchurian Incident
A faction of the Japanese army seizes Manchuria, setting up a puppet state as a base for further Japanese expansion in Asia. -
Chapter 18, Section 3 - Nazi Policies
The Nazis ordered a one-day boycott of businesses owned by Jews. -
Chapter 17, Section 1 - Fascism In Italy
Mussolini invades the independent African kingdom of Ethiopia, and overpowers them using warplanes and poisonous gas. -
Chapter 17, Section 1 - Germany Rearms
Hitler signed an alliance with the Italian dictator, Mussolini. Germany and Italy, joined later by Japan, became known as the Axis Powers. -
Chapter 17, Section 3 - War Against China
Japan invades China. -
Chapter 8, Section 3 - Kristallnacht
Nazi thugs throughout Germany and Austria looted and destroyed Jewish synagogues. -
Chapter 17, Section 1 - The Spanish Civil War
The Nationalist army finally took the Spanish capital of Madrid and ended the civil war. -
Chapter 17, Section 2 - Lightning War
The Germans practiced a new form of attack that they unveiled in the invasion of Poland called a blitzkrieg. -
Chapter 17, Section 2 - Hitler's Pact With Stalin
After Hitler invades Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Chapter 17, Section 3 - Looking Beyond China
Japan announces a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, whose mission is to liberate Asia from European colonies. -
Chapter 17, Section 2 - Germany Attacks
The phony war came to an end as Hitler began a successful attack on Denmark and Norway. -
Chapter 17, Section 2 - War In The West
German troops launched a blitzkrieg on the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Britain and France came and tried to defend their neighbor, but were too late. -
Chapter 17, Section 2 - The Battle of Britain
Hitler lanuched the greatest air assault the world had yet seen. Day after day until September, as many as 1,000 planes rained bombs on Britain. -
Chapter 17, Section 3 - Tripartite Pact
Japan allied itself with Germany and Italy through the Tripartite Pact. -
Chapter 18, Section 1 - The Draft
Congress authorized the first peacetime draft in the nation's history, called the Selective Training and Service Act. -
Chapter 17, Section 4 - Roosevelt's Third Term
Roosevelt won reelection to a third term as President. -
Chapter 17, Section 4 - Lend-Lease Act
Congress passed this act, which authorized the President to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security. -
Chapter 17, Section 3 - Neutrality Pact
Japan signs a neutrality pact with the Soviet Union. -
Chapter 18, Section 1 - Shortages And Controls
The Office of Price Administration was established to control inflation by limiting prices and rents. -
Chapter 18, Section 5 - Economic Discrimination
The President signed Executive Order 8802, opening jobs and job training programs in defense plans to all Americans without discrimination of any kind. -
Chapter 17, Section 4 - Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes bomb the US fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and nearby airfields. In less than two hours, some 2,400 Americans are killed. -
Chapter 17, Section 4 - US Declares War
Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. He claims the previous day is a "date which will live in infamy." -
Chapter 17, Section 4 - Europe Declares War
Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. -
Chapter 18, Section 1 - War Production Board
The government set up the WPB to direct the conversion of peacetime industries to industries that produced war goods. -
Chapter 18, Section 3 - Death Camps
Nazis opened a gas chamber disguised as a shower room at the Auschwitz camp in Western Poland. -
Chapter 18, Section 5 - Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt signed this order which authorized the Secretary of War to establish military zones on the West Coast and remove "any or all persons." -
Chapter 18, Section 4 - Bataan Death March
Brutal march of American and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers -
Chapter 18, Section 1 - Enlisting Public Support
Roosevelt established the Office of War Information to work with advertising agencies to promote the war effort. -
Chapter 18, Section 4 - The Battle Of Midway
This battle opened with a wave of Japanese bomber attacks on the island and a simultaneous, unsuccessful American strike on the Japanese fleet. -
Chapter 18, Section 5 - The Bracero Program
An agreement between the US and Mexico provided for transportation, food, shelter, and medical care for thousands of braceros. -
Chapter 18, Section 2 - The Battle Of Stalingrad
The Red Army makes a stand at Stalingrad, then successfully launches a counterattack and begins pushing the Germans out of the Soviet Union. -
Chapter 18, Section 2 - Turning Point In The War
More than 90,000 surviving Germans surrendered after the Battle of Stalingrad. -
Chapter 18, Section 1 - New Leader To OWM
The President appointed James F. Byrnes to head the Office of War Mobilization. -
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Allied armies had the Axis forces trapped in North Africa. -
Chapter 18, Section 5 - Zoot Suit Riots
Mexican American street fighting grew into full-scale riots. Amy and navy officials finally intervened by restricting GIs' off-duty access to Los Angeles. -
Chapter 18, Section 5 - Detroit Race Riots
A race riot in Detroit killed 34 people and caused millions of dollars worth of damage. -
Chapter 18, Section 3 - Treblinka Camp
Rioting Jews damaged the Treblinka death camp so badly it had to be closed. -
Chapter 18, Section 2 - D-Day
Allies cross the English Channel and attack the German army with a massive shelling of the Normandy coast. -
Chapter 18, Section 2 - Battle Of The Bulge
General Patton engages the German army in France at this battle, which is the largest one ever fought. -
Chapter 18, Section 4 - Battle Of Iwo Jima
1945 World War II battle between the US and Japan, where American forces suffered an estimated 25,000 casualities. -
Chapter 18, Section 4 - Battle of Okinawa
This battle was just as bloody as Iwo Jima, but the Uniited States suffered over 50,000 casualties. -
Chapter 18, Section 4 - The Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project scientists field-tested the world's first atomic bomb in the desert of New Mexico. -
Chapter 18, Section 4 - Hiroshima
The Enola Gay dropped a single atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A blast of intense heat annihilated the city's center and its residents in an instant. -
Chapter 18, Section 3 - Rescue And Liberation
Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France conducted the Nuremberg Trials.
