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Japan Invades Manchuria
This invasion started the Japanese aggression against China and Indochina. Also, the US respond to this by limiting trades, such as gas and oil. -
Nuremberg Trials
Anti-sematic & racial laws passed by Hitler in 1935 restricted the rights of Jew in Germany. Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. -
Munich Pact
Britain and France allowed Hitler to take more land but in exchange for him not to ask for more land. Later on, 6 months later Hitler broke the agreement by continuing to take territory. This event was important because it gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Kristallnacht
Night of broken glass. Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, school , and businesses , and killed close to 100 Jews -
Neutrality Acts of 1939
This act allowed nations at war to buy goods from the US if they paid cash upfront. This act is important to US history because it allowed nations at war to basically trade with the US -
German invades Poland
This invasion led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany, Germany uses the strategy of a blitzkrieg to quickly invade France and launch on Britain. It was important to us history because the German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
Lend-Lease Act
Congress tells Roosevelt what to do like sell, buy, exchange, etc .. This event was important to US history because this act help keep things in check for a time period. -
Atlantic Charter
This event was about how FDR & British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign the Atlantic Charter, Also this event was important to the US constitution because it showed FDR’s commitment to opposing German and Japanese aggression. -
Exec Order 8022
Was a respond issued by FDR, prohibiting ethic or recital dissemination in nation's defense industry. It was a response to Philp Randolph's threat to organized a march on Washington demanding equal access to war-time job -
Atlantic Charter
A board statement of US and British war aims. It endorsed self-determination and an international system of general security. FDR & British Prime Minster Winston Churchill signed it. it also showed FDR's commitment to opposing German and Japanese aggression -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was how Jappaness surprisingly attack Pearl Harbor, But Japan attack because it saw the US Pacific fleet as a threat to its growing empire. -
Exec Order 9066
FDR issued to authorized the interment of American of Japanese descent and resident were ordered to sell their property & belonging and report for deportation to camp in the inland deserts -
Battle of Midway
Victory at Midway stopped the Japanese advance and put them on the defensive. The tenacity of the Japanese was not going to give in, revealing how costly an invasion of Japan would be. The US was then determined to have the Soviet Union agree to participate in any invasion of Japan -
Operation Torch
The invasion of North Carolina was lunched to free the Mediterranean Sea from German control and protect the oil fields in the Middle East. Took some pressure off the USSR, but the Soviet's fierce resistance to the Germans at Stalingrad turned to tie on the eastern front -
D-Day
It provided the long-awaited western front. Germany was now engaged on 3 fronts & had to divert recourses to a western front included the Soviet Union, Italy & France -
Battle of the Bulge
Was the last German offensive and the beginning of the end for the Nazis. American+ British + French marched towards Berlin from the west. Soviet marched from the east -
Korematsu v. United States
Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American who refused to leave his home per the Exec. Order (9066) issued in regards to Japanese Americans and resident aliens. He took his case to the Supreme Court, arguing that internment violated his Constitution rights. Korematsu lost & the Supreme Court upheld Japanese internment as Constitutional -
Yalta Conference
In this conference, it was Churchill, FDR& Stain, Final plans for the defeat of Europe & began a discussion of post-war European Plans -
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
President Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to prevent the necessity for landing and fighting on Japanese home islands. Japanese surrendered unconditionally and no invasion was necessary after the bombs were dropped -
United Nations is created
The US played a key role in helping to organize and start the United Nations. The intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine pledged to contains communism in Europe and was first applied when the United States supplied military and financial aid to Greece and Turkey to resist the communist backed rebel forces there. Was made in March of 1947 -
Marshall Plan
Fearing that war-torn and economically weak Western Europe would elect socialist communist govemments , the US offered financial and Marshall Plan to promote economic rebuilding and prevent to fall of European countries to communism. This was proposed by Sec. of state George Marshall -
Israel is established
The US supported the self-determination of the Jewish people with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. The US promptly recognized & supported Israel demonstrates the impact of German war crime on the conscience of the US & the world -
Berlin Airlift
The first test of US policy by the Soviet Union came when the Soviets blockaded Berlin. The US won this first Cold War confrontation with the Berlin Airlift. The US supplied the people of Berlin with food, water, and other supplies via air drops -
US establishes NATO
It was an establish to military alliance to aim at the Soviet Union. A military alliance of Eastern European nations against the NATO -
Rise of the Berlin Wal
The city of Berlin, Germany was divided at the end of World War II. The Soviets controlled East Berlin and the Allies controlled sections of West Germany. The city was divide by the Berlin Wall ( begins Aug 13, 1961)which became a symbol of the Cold War to separate East and West Germany and keep people of eastern bioc from escaping to freedom in the west through Berlin