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U.S. declares Neutrality
The Proclamation of Neutrality was an announcement made by President George Washington in May 1793. Declaring the nation in the conflict between France and Great Britian. It threatened leagal proceedings against any American providing assistance to any country at war. -
Winston Churchill
He was a British politicain who was the Prime minister of the United KIngdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Was one of teh greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century churchill was also an officer in the British Army. -
FDR
He was commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politocal leader who served as the 32nd president of th U.S.. A Democrat he won a record four elections and served from when he started to his death. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York in 1882. -
Benito Mussolini
He was an italian polotician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist party. He ruled constitutionally until 1925 when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. In 1912 Mussolini was the leading member of the National Directorate. -
Adolf Hitler
He was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi's. Hitler was In WWII in Europe and the Holocaust. He gained popular support by attacking the treaty of Versailles. His Nazi party became the largest elected party in the German Reichstag leading to his appointment as chancellor in 1933. Hiltler is mostly known for the Holocaust where he tried to get rid of one human race which was the Jews this was a tragic event in history. -
Victory Gardens
Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II. -
Vernon Baker
He was a united states army officer who received the Medal of Honor. The highest military award given by the united states government for his valorous actions during WWII. Baker was born on December 17 1919 in cheyenne WYoming. -
Audie Murphy
He was one of the most decorated American combat soilders of WWII. Receiving every military combat award for valor available from the U.S army. He was 19 when he received the Medal of Honor after single holding off an entore company of German soilders. -
rape of nanking
The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking. -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend Lease policy formally titled an Act to further promote the defense of the U.S.. Following the surrender of France in June 1940, Britain and its Commonwealth were the forces engaged in war against Nazi Germany. Britain had been paying for its material in gold under "cash and carry" as required by the US Neutrality Acts of the 1930s, but by 1941 it had liquidated so many assets that it was running short of cash. -
pearl harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II. -
Japanese-American internment camps
The U.S. was forced the relocation and incarceration during WWII of 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese acestry. The U.S government ordered the removal of Japanese Americans in 1942. -
office of war information
The United States Office of War Information was a United Sates government agency created during WWII. President Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgated the OWI on June 13, 1942 by Executive order 9182. -
fire bombing of dresden
The Bombing of Dresden was an attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War in the European Theatre. -
Harry S. Truman
He was th e33rd president of the U.S.. He became president after Roosevelt died. Truman was born in MIssouri and spent most of his youth on his familys farm. During WWI he served in combat in France as an artillery officer in his National Gaurd unit. -
Dictator
a dictator is a ruler with total power over a country typically one who has obtained power by force. He or she has absolute authority. A state ruled by a dictator is called a dictatorship. The word came from a title of a magistrate in ancient rome appointed by the Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency. -
Fascism
Fascism is a form of radical authorutarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th century europe. -
Nazism
It is a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany. It started in the 1920s. The party gained power in 1933 starting the third Reich. They lasted in Germany until 1945 at the end of WWII. -
womens role in WWII
Woman in WWII took on a variety of roles from country to country. WWII involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale. The hard skilled labor of women was symbolized in the United States by the concept of Rosie the Riveter, a woman factory laborer performing what was previously considered man's work. -
war bonds and rationing
n the spring of 1942, the Food Rationing Program was set into motion. Rationing would deeply affect the American way of life for most. The federal government needed to control supply and demand. Rationing was introduced to avoid public anger with shortages and not to allow only the wealthy to purchase commodities.
