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Manchuria is Invaded
Japan invades Manchuria with the excuse that they are running out of land and resources. The League of Nations doesn't like them doing this, but does nothing. -
The Holocaust
Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany, and starts the genocide of all Jews. Millions of Jews were killed, along with crippled people, blacks, and gays. -
Neutrality Act
Set a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all of the current parties of WWII. -
Anti-Comintern Pact
Signed between Japan and Germany, furthering ties between them. -
Quarantine Speech
Through the suggested use of economic pressure, a forceful response, but not as direct as outright war, Roosevelt meant to negatively affect the warring Axis Powers of WWII. -
Rape of Nanjing
200,000-300,000 Chinese slaughtered and massacred by Japanese soldiers. -
Cash & Carry Policy
If any country wanted to trade, they would have to bring USD in cash to American ports if they wanted to trade. -
Invasion of Poland
The invasion of Poland marks the offical start of WWII. Germans used the blitzkrieg tactic, and through doing so, won by the end of the month. -
Lend-Lease Act
A law that started a program under which the USA supplied the allied forces with materiel between 1941 and 1945. Ultimately, it ended the US's pretense of neutrality. -
Tripartite Pact
Japan, Italy, and Germany form a military alliance. -
Arsenal of Democracy
A slogan coined by F.D.R., in a radio broadcast which promised America's help in fighting Nazi Germany by giving the United Kingdom military supplies while the United States stayed out of the actual fighting. -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler breaks the nonaggression pact and attacks the Soviet Union; the Soviet Union joins the Allies as a result. -
Enigma broken
The Enigma code was broken by Allies and served to gain vital information about U-boat formations. It also lead to the term "Iron Coffins," which was coined due to seventy percent of those serving on U-boats being dead by the war's end. -
Atlantic Charter
A pivotal policy statement which early in WWII defined the Allied goals for post-war world. It was drafted by Britain and the US, and was later agreed to by all the allies. -
Hideki
General Hideki took control of Japan. -
Executive Order 9066
Gave armed forces the power to force people or groups to leave certain zones. -
El Alamien
A major allied victory, which secured oil shipping routes for Great Britain, and helped further the war supplies, which in turn led to more troops being deployed from Great Britain. -
Operation Torch
Invasion of French North Africa - the first time U.S. troups see action in Europe - under the direction General Dwight D. Eisenhower in an effort to drive back the Axis Powers in Africa. They succeeded, though, with the cost of 20,000 American soldiers' lives. -
D-Day
Invasion of Normandy, France (Also known as Operation Overlord). -
Korematsu vs. U.S.
The need to protect against espionage outweighed Fred Korematsu's individual rights in this trial, and he lost. Involved Japanese internment camps
