The events of WWII

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  • Mussolini to power, fascist

    Mussolini to power, fascist

  • Good Neighbor Policy: Isolate Americas from war

    Good Neighbor Policy: Isolate Americas from war

  • Invaded Manchuria and created Manchukuo

    Invaded Manchuria and created Manchukuo

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    60,000 people fled Germany, Austria, Italy for U.S.

  • Due to Japanese military build-up, FDR calls for largest peacetime naval construction

    Due to Japanese military build-up, FDR calls for largest peacetime naval construction

  • Army enlarged

    Army enlarged

  • Navy & Air Force enlarged

    Navy & Air Force enlarged

  • Japan joined Germany & Italy’s pledge to resist Communist International

    Japan joined Germany & Italy’s pledge to resist Communist International

  • Neutrality Act 1937: cash & carry of nonmilitary goods bought from U.S. by nations at war, NOT to be transported under American flag

  • declared war on China, rape of Nanking

    declared war on China, rape of Nanking

  • American soldiers fought in Spanish Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

    American soldiers fought in Spanish Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

  • : Hitler expelling Jews from Germany, Austria

    : Hitler expelling Jews from Germany, Austria

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    60,000 fewer refugees allowed in than law allowed.

  • Uranium fission discovered in Berlin

  • Germany grabs rest of Czechoslovakia

    Germany grabs rest of Czechoslovakia

  • Nonaggression Pact signed by Germany and Soviet Union

    Nonaggression Pact signed by Germany and Soviet Union

  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invades Poland

  • Britain declared war on Germany

    Britain declared war on Germany

  • : Neutrality Act updated, budget established to explore atomic power

    : Neutrality Act updated, budget established to explore atomic power

  • Soviets invaded eastern Poland, later Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland

    Soviets invaded eastern Poland, later Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland

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    Germany invades & Attacks ships with U-Boats

    Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France; air assault against Britain summer & fall
    U-boat attacks against merchant marines in Atlantic
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    “Happy time”

  • Oil embargo against Japan begins

    Oil embargo against Japan begins

  • Italy declares war on Allies, attacked France

    Italy declares war on Allies, attacked France

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    Research partnerships between civilian & military science, defense budget exploded

  • Pro-expansionist gov’t and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

    Pro-expansionist gov’t and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

  • Tripartite Pact:Mutual Assistance

    Tripartite Pact:Mutual Assistance

  • Traded bases for naval destroyers with G.B.; Selective Service Act; restricted iron & scrap metals to Japan; Flying Tigers & planes to China

    Traded bases for naval destroyers with G.B.; Selective Service Act; restricted iron & scrap metals to Japan; Flying Tigers & planes to China

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    Lend-Lease with Great Britain. U.S. troops to Greenland, air & naval patrols, “national emergency”

  • discovery of plutonium; FDR wants scientists to build a bomb

  • Great Britain sank Germany’s super battleship Bismarck

  • Sends troops to Iceland; frozen Japanese assets, severely reduced Japanese oil shipments

    Sends troops to Iceland; frozen Japanese assets, severely reduced Japanese oil shipments

  • Japanese into French Indochina

    Japanese into French Indochina

  • Einstein wrote to FDR explaining nuclear fission

  • Japan warned against more expansion

    Japan warned against more expansion

  • General Tojo becomes Prime Minister

    General Tojo becomes Prime Minister

  • Reuben James sunk by U-Boat; Soviets eligible for lend-lease

    Reuben James sunk by U-Boat; Soviets eligible for lend-lease

  • U.S. knew that Japan was planning attack, but not where; approved arming of merchant ships

    U.S. knew that Japan was planning attack, but not where; approved arming of merchant ships

  • America declares war on Japan after Pearl Harbor is attacked

    America declares war on Japan after Pearl Harbor is attacked

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    Bataan Death March

  • Battle of Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway

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    1st American ground offensive in Pacific

  • “Operation Torch”

  • Inspired F6F Hellcat airplane, established American control over Pacific

  • Britain bombs Hamburg, Germany - 30,000 killed

  • Tehran, Iran meeting of Churchill, FDR & Stalin

  • FDR creates War Refugee Board (in response to reports of Holocaust)

  • Nimitz captures Gilbert & Marshall islands

  • D-Day on Normandy Beaches

  • Guam

  • MacArthur returns to Philippines

  • Battle of the Bulge

  • U.S. carpet-bombs cities

  • U.S. troops into Germany, Russians coming from East

  • U.S. fire-bombs Tokyo

  • High U.S. casualties on Okinawa - affects U.S. future plans - U.S. had 35% casualty rate, 7000/70,000 Japanese soldiers alive; 100,000 Okinawan civilians dead

  • Germany surrenders

  • Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima

  • “Fat Man” dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders

  • V-J Day

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