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Submarines
Who: David Bushnell
What: A Submarine
When: First Submarine was created in 1775
Impact: Submarines allowed for a more efficient naby and destroyed lots of enemy ships. it allowed the USA to beat Japan and Germany
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Events of WWII
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Hitler's Rise to Power
Who: Adolf Hitler
What: His rise to power
Where: Germany
Why: Germany was in a terrible economic crisis and they were looking for someone to guide them out of this crisis and Adolf Hitler had all these Qualities
Impact: It started an era that would start WWII and cause millions of deaths -
Nurember laws
Who: Nazi party
What: Laws aginst the Jews
Where: Germany
Why: The Nazi party had taken over Germany and they blamed the jews for all of the problems that Germany had and so they made laws against the jews
Impact: this was the start of hate crimes against the Jews who would later end up in concentration camps -
Rocket Engine
Who: Germany/Russia
What: Invention of the rocket/Jet engine
Where: Germany/Russia
Why: It helped to propell airplanes
Impact: Now that airplanes had rocket engines they were able to move faster and destroy the enemy faster
The rocket engine was invented in the late 1930's -
Kristalnacht
Who: Anti-Jews
What: Night of broken glass
Where: Germany
Why:The Nazi Germans were angry at the Jews and so they attacked their houses,synagogues, and their businesses
Impact: It showed that Hitler had put the Geman people against the Jews -
Total War
Who: Allies vs Axis
What: Total War
Where: Europe and Asia and Africa
Why: Total war indicated that even civilians were enemies
Impact: This caused for more death because even civilians were considered enemies -
The St. Louis
Who: 938 passengers
What: Voyage from Germany to Cuba
Where: Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba
Why: They were mostly Jews escaping from Germany
Impact: It showed the horror that the Jews were living in Germany because everybody wanted to escape -
Hitler Invades Poland
Who: Germany
What: German troops invade poland
Where: Poland
Why: Hitler wanted to expand and more power so he invaded Poland
Impact: It started World War II -
Radar
Who: Various bations before and during world war II
What; Radar
Where: Various nations
Why: it helped to detect enemy planes
Impact: It was easier to detect enemies and so this made it more difficult for planes to attack a certain spot that was secured by radar -
Tripartite Act
Who: Germany,Italy, and Japan
What:Tripartite act
Where: Berlin, Germany
Why: To protect themselves
Impact: this showed that the axis powers were preparing themselves for war and that they were trying to make allies in case it happened early -
Lend lease Act
Who:USA and the allied nations
What: Lend Lease Act
Where: USA
Why: To supply the allied nations with supplies to help tehm with the war
impact: It provided extra supplies to the Allied troops who needed all the help they could get -
Hideki Tojo as prime Minister of Japan
Who: Hideki Tojo
What: Prime Minister of Japan
Where: Japan
Why:Tojo continued the war with China nd it's alliance between germany and Italy.
Impact: He led the japanese against the allied troops causing thousands of deaths -
Pearl Harbor attack
Who: Japan
What: Attack on pearl Harbor
Where: Pearl Harbor Hawaii
Why: The Japanese were mad at the United States because they were not giving them raw materials so they decided to attack an unnaware naval fleet in Pearl Harbor Hawaii
Impact: It brought the US into the war -
U.S.A Delaration of War
Who: The United States
What: Declaration of War against the Axis powers
Where: WAshington DC
Why: Japanese planes attacked pearl harbor and destroyed US ships
Impact: It brough the US into World War II -
The Final Solution
Who: German Nazi Party
What: The final Solution
Where: Germany and all of Europe
Why: To exterminate all of the Jews from the face of the Earth
Impact: This lead to one of the most horrible parts of WWII as the Nazis created concentration camps where they slaughtered all Jews and non-Germans -
Japanese internment Camps
Who: Japanese in the united states
What: Internment Camps
Where: THe United States
Why: They put the Japanese in these camps because the US could not afford to have the Japanese roaming around free while they were at war with them
impact: it showed that the United States were scared enough to put innocent civilians into internment camps -
Mussolini
Who: Benito Mussolini
What: His rise to power
Where: Italy
Why: He was the Facist ruler of Italy during World War II
Impact: He was part of the axis powers that made the war in Europe a struggle for the allies -
D-Day
Who: Allied troops
What: Invasion of Europe from the western front
Where: Normandy France
Why: To open a second front so that the Germans would not only have to worry about the eastern front
Impact: It began the liberation of western Europe -
Liberation Of concentration Camps
Who: Allied troops
What: Liberation of concentration camps
Where: All Over Europe, mostly in Germany and Poland
Why: The Nazis used these camps to mass murder Jews and the Allied troops began to liberate them when they began to invade Europe
impact: It showed the world how the nazis were and spread more hate for the Germans -
Death of President Roosevelt
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt
What: Death
Where: Warm Springs, Georgia
Why: Died of a stroke while resting in his summer home in Georgia
Impact: He took the united States out of the Depression and into WWII -
Harry S. Truman
Who: Harry S. Truman
What: Presidency
Where: United States
Why: He became president after the death of Franklin D. Roosevlet
Impact: Truman had to take command of the war all of a sudden and had to command the United States to victory over the Japnese in WWII -
Death of Hitler
Who: Adolf Hitler
What: death
Where: Germany
Why: He killed himself with a gunshot after he saw that the allied troops were going to catch him
Impact: It was the starting of the end of the war in Europe -
V-E day
Who: Europe&Germany
What:Allies bombed the German city of Dresden, killing approximately 35,000 civilians. Hitler killed himself Germany then surrendered
Where:Europe
Why:The War Ended in Europe When the Russians took Berlin
Impact: It ended the war in Europe -
Nuclear Weapons
Who: United States
What: First Nuclear Test
Where: New Mexico, USA
Why: To find a way to end the war in Japan and Germany
Impact; It ended WWII but then produced the Cold War later which basically meant that Russia and the US could bomb the Earth to pieces -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Who:US and Japan
What:The US had been the first to make a atomic bomb and their target was Hiroshima and even though they bombed and killed thousands it was not enough to make Japan surrender
Where:Hiroshima
Why: To win the war
Impact on WWII: It ended the war -
Japan Surrenders
Who: Japan and USA
What: Japan Surrenders
Where: Aboard the USS Missouri
Why: The US dropped two atomic bombs in Japan
Impact: It ended World War II as a whole -
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Post-WWII
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Joseph Stalin
Who: Joseph stalin
What; How he came to power
Where: Russia
Why: He was the leader of the red army during World War II
Impact: He led Russia from 1922 to 1952 and he was the successor of Vladimir Lenin
