Events of WWII

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  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan was becoming over crowed and Manchuria offered more space for population.

  • Neutrality Act

    Congress passed laws to belligerents, forbade American ships from entering war zones and prohibited them from being armed, and barred Americans from traveling on belligerent ships.

  • War production Board

    Supervised war production

  • Germany invades Poland

    How Hitler intended to wage war and this eventually became the 'Blitzkrieg" strategy

  • "Cash and Carry" Plan

    Trade where goods where sold in wholesale

  • Germans occupy Paris

    British tried to persuade paris to not go for peace but to stay in the war

  • Battle of Britain

    Royal air force defended the UK against Germans.

  • America First Committee

    The foremost United States isolationist pressure group against the American entry into World War II.

  • Selective Training and Service Act

    Countries first peace time draft.

  • Tripartite Pact

    Agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy.

  • Roosevelt's "Arsenal of Democracy" speech

    Tell US that they will be entering war.

  • Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Speech

    Proposed 4 fundamental freedoms that everyone in the world should enjoy.

  • Randolph's March on Washington

    Civil Rights leader argued the problem in 20th century was the color line

  • Lend-Lease Act

    Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies.

  • FEPC

    Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, which banned “discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.”

  • Atlantic Charter

    Provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.

  • office of Price Administration

    Was to control money and rents.

  • US enters WWII

  • Japanese Interment Camps

    The forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country

  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

    African-American civil rights organization

  • Bombing of Tokyo

    Retaliation after Pear Harbor

  • Battle of Bataan "death march"

    A march in the Philippines of some 66 miles (106 km) that 76,000 prisoners of war (66,000 Filipinos, 10,000 Americans) were forced by the Japanese military to endure

  • Battle of Coral Sea

    Navel battle in pacific

  • Battle of Midway

    Navel Battle

  • Bracero Program

    Manuel labor

  • Navaho Talker/Code Used

    Used navaho Indians to set and break codes

  • Zoot Suit Riots

    Series of attacks by white service men in California.

  • War Labor Disputes Act

  • Tehran Conference/Operation Overload

    Strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.

  • "An American Dilemma" - the American Creed

  • D-Day

    Normandy Landings

  • Bretton Woods Conference

    Gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel.

  • Korematsu vs United States

  • "What the Negro Wants"

    Novel

  • GI Bill of Rights

    A law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan Bombs

  • Liberation of nazi Concentration Camps

  • Yalta Conference

    The World War II meeting of the heads of government

  • Battle of Dresden

  • Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

    US captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese

  • V-E Day

    Victory in Europe

  • Manhattan Project

    First nuclear wepon

  • Potsdam Conference

    Attended Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States

  • Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    US dropped nuclear weapons on Japs

  • V-J Day

    Japan surrendered

  • United Nations

    Intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. (Replaced League of Nations)