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Hitler Takes Power
-Hitler takes over Germany wanting to get rid of every Jew and become a "master race of Aryans"
-He converts Germany to a dictatorship -
Spanish Civil War
-Revolts broke out all over Spain
-About 3,000 Americans formed the Abraham Lincoln Battalion and traveled to Spain to fight against Franco. -
Japanese Invasion of China
-Japan tried to spread power through China.
-Did this to have have more land to take battle across Pacific. -
German Invasion of Czechoslovakia
-Secret mission and didn't last a long time
-Hitler takes over Czechoslovakia -
Non-aggression Pact
-Stalin signed with HItler
-Agreed that fascist Germany and communist Russia committed to never attack each other -
Invasion of Poland
-German air force rained bombs on military bases, airfields, railroads, and cities
-Invasion was the first test of the blitzkrieg or lightening war -
Invasion of Manchuria
-Germany took over Poland.
-Hitler broke neutrality and split it with Russia. -
Battle of the Atlantic
-Prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britain and Soviet Union
-Germans sank total of 681 ships off the Atlantic Shore -
Munich Agreement
-Hitler took Sudentland without firing a shot.
-He said this would be his last annexation, however he lied. -
Neutrality Acts
-Series of acts that happened throughout the 1930's.
-Made war more organized. -
Invasion of Denmark
-Hitler takes over Denmark.
-It became Blitzkreig warfare due to how fast he took over the country. -
Fall of France
-German offensive trapped British and French soldiers
-Germans now occupid the northern part of France -
Battle of Britain
-Objective was to gain air superiority over Royal Air Force
-First major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces -
Lend-Lease
-President lent or leased arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the United States"
-only sensible thing to do -
Atlantic Charter
-Joint delcaration of war aims
-United States and Great Britain pledged collective security, disarmament, self-determination, economic cooperation, and freedom of the seas -
Pearl Harbor
-More than 180 Japanese warplanes bombed
-They attacked for an hour and a half -
Doolittle's Raid
-Started with a daring raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities
-Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led 16 bombers in the attack -
Battle of Midway
-Americans broke into Japanese code and knew that Midway was Japan's next ttarget
-Americans sent torpedo planes and dive bombers to attack after Japan's fleet -
Battle of Stalingrad
-The German air force prepared nightly bombing raids over city
-Germany controlled 9/10 of the city by the end of the battle -
Operation Torch/North African Front
-An invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa, commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower
-107,000 Allied troops landed in Casolanca, Oran, and Algiers -
Italian Campaign
-Started with capture of Sicily in the summer of 1943
-The Italian government forced Beninto Mussolini to resign -
D-Day
-After midnight, three divisions parachuted behind Greman lines
-"People were yelling, screaming, dying, running on the beach, equipment was flying everywhere, men were bleeding to death, crawling, lying everywhere, firing coming from all directions" -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
-Japanese used the war tactic of kamikazees.
-Allies won but Navy was damaged. -
Battle of the Bulge
-Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory creating a bulge in the lines
-The battle raged for a month and the Germans lost 120,000 troops, 600 tanks and assault funs, and 1,600 planes -
Iwo Jima
-Iwo Jima was critical to the United States as a base from which heavily loaded bombers might reach Japan
-Most heavily defended spot on earth with 20,700 Japanese troops in tunnels and caves -
Yalta Conference
-For eight days, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed the fate of Germany and the postwar world
-Temporary division of Germany into four zones, one for the Americans, the British, the Soviets, and the French -
FDR's Death
-Died during his fourth term
-Truman took over after him near the end of the war -
Okinawa
-Japanese unleashed more than 1,900 kamikaze attacks on the Allies
-More than 7,600 Americans had died -
V-E Day
-"Victory in Europe Day"
-Generaly Eisdenhower's acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of World War II in Europe -
Hiroshima
-B-29 bomber named Enola Gay released atomic bomb code named Little Boy
-Almost every building collapsed forty-three seconds after bomb was dropped -
Nagasaki
-Code named Fat Man
-By the end of the year, estimated 200,000 people died in result of atomic blasts -
V-J Day
-"Victory in Japan Day"
-Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. -
Liberation of France
-After Hitler took France, Allies fought and got it back at the end of the war.
-George Patton helped take Paris. -
Nuremberg Trials
-Defendants included Hitler's most trusted party officials, government ministers, military leaders, and powerful industrialists
-In the end, half of the defendants were sentenced to death and the rest were sent to prison
