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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japan invades Manchuria. -
German Dictator
A german dictator named Adolf Hitler got thousands of followers to go to a week-long rally in Nuremberg. -
Annexing the Sudetenland
Six months after annexing Sudetenland, Hitler had conquered the western half of Czechoslovakia, dividing the rest of the country among the allies. -
Poland invaded (Chap. 17, Section 2)
Hitler invades Poland -
Germany Attacks
Germany attacks Denmark and Norway. This was the end of the "Phony War". -
Peacetime draft
Congress authorizes the first peacetime draft. -
President FDR's concernful speech
President FDR gives a speech of his worries and concerns to the American people via radio. He stated that the Axis nations, especially Germany, posed a direct threat to the security of the United States. -
Four Freedoms Speech
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression.... The second s freedom of every person to worship God in his own way.... The third is freedom from want [need].... The fourth is freedom from fear." -
The war becomes global
Germany, along with other European Axis members and Finland, invaded the Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. -
African Americans fight
Military authorities reluctantly give African Americans the oppertunity to fight. -
Black & White units
Heavy casualties force the army to accept African Americans into some white combat units. -
Hitler dead
Unable to accept defeat, and defiant to being taken in by his enemies, Adolf Hitler commits suicide. He had earlier commanded one of his officers to take his and his wife's bodies behind the buildings and have them burned beyond recognition. -
Victory in Europe
Often reffered to as V-E day, this is the day when we accepted Germany's surrender.
