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mussolinni and fascists power in Italy
This is when Mussolini decided to step up and take over italy. He sought to delay a major war in Europe at least until 1942. He sided with Germany though he new that Italy did not have the military capacity in 1940 to carry out a long war with France and the United kingdom. -
Japanese invasion Manchuria
Japan thought they were smart by fighting China. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began in September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung army of the empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately. Allowing the Mukden incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo and their occupation lasted until the end of ww2. -
Hitler and the Nazis rise to power in Germany.
Hitler took after Mussolini and decided he would restore Germany to its rightful place. First he gathered his men , then he had them to gather all the Jews, Christians, homosexuals, and the slow and lied about making them useful but in reality he was just killing them. -
Neutrality acts passed in u.s.
President Teddy Roosevelt passed neutrality acts. These were laws passed in 1935,1936,1937, and 1939 to limit u.s. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with ww1 in the early 1930's that the u.s. had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the allies. -
Kristallnacht
This is what Hitler did to start killing Jews. Kristallnacht is really known as night of broken glass. It was a massive , coordinated attack on Jews throughout German Reich on the night of Nov 9, 1939 into the next day. -
Germany and USSR sign Non-Aggression pact
Hitler decided he needed help concerning the world so he made some friends. He teamed up with Stalin. So he signed an agreement with Stalin saying he wouldn't fight Russia if Russia wouldn't fight Germany. In the end Hitler ends up breaking the agreement and invades Russia -
Germany invades poland-Beginning of WW two
To start of Hitlers plan he invaded Poland and took it over like it was nothing. -
Rescue at Dunkirk
Fighting got so bad at Dunkirk that our troops were badly outnumbered. So Roosevelt sent more troops to save them. Troops from our helpers surrounded German army and rescued our troops hence the name rescue at Dunkirk -
France falls to Germany
France finally gave up and just went into Germany's hands -
Formation of Axis powers
This is when the Germany and italy and Poland got together to form the axis powers. They had all the military strength. They went to war with us we went to war with them. -
presidental election of 1940
1940 presidential election. The united States presidential election of 1940 was fought in the shadow of ww2 as the united states was emerging from the great depression. -
Congress passes the lend-lease act
This is when congress decided that the other countries needed help so we created the end lease act. Meaning we give them weapons they pay us and we do the same thing. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawii
It was a quiet Sunday morning. Japanese airplanes surprisingly slipped under radar. And killed over 200,00 people. -
manhattan project
This is when the united states feared that Germany would come up with a nuclear bomb we came up with one first.! -
relocation of Japanese AMericans to Camps
This was when america was afraid after pearl harbor so they arrested over 120,000 Japanese Americans. Family was separated from one another. Reparations were given at the end. -
Bataan Death March
Japanese captured war soldiers and mar he'd them and beat them and starved them until they died. -
Battle of Midway Island
American navy fleet decisively attacked a Japanese fleet of ships between the 3&7 of june. Under admiral Charles Nimitz. -
Rosie the Riveter campaign encourage women to get ajob
This was saying that women were needed in the force too. They were there building machines to help us with the war. -
Allied invasion/victory in the philippines
The Americans and the Philippines faught until 1945. Americans won. -
presidentall election of 1944
Thomas e Dewey and Roosevelt ran. Roosevelt died before being elected for his third term as president. -
battle of the bulge
Battle of the bulge was one of the bloodiest battles known to man -
yalta conference
Meeting of Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin and franklin Roosevelt toward the decline of ww2. -
V-E day
Victory day in Europe when German surrender to all its allied forces. -
bombing of heroshima and nagasaki
We blew Japan up. On August 1945 an American bomber dropped to bombs one on heroshima the other on Nagasaki wiping every thing in its path out. -
surrender of japan
This is when we bombed heroshima and Nagasaki and they were scared so they surrendered. -
Formation of allied powers
This is when us Russia and France became one who defended against Germany.
