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Joseph Stalin
Became the leader if the USSR -
Benito Mussolini
an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce -
Japan invades Manchuria
the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. It was a japanese victory -
Adolf Hitler Leader of Germany
Hitler was able to take over both the position of president (Hindenburg died) and chancellor and combine them into one position of supreme leader, the Führer. -
Holocaust Began
was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party -
Good Neighbor Policy
the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. -
Neutrality Acts
passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
referred to as the Second Italo–Abyssinian War.The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire -
European Appeasement
a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict -
Japan invaded china
launching the Second Sino-Japanese Wara, military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan -
Kristallnacht
was a pogrom (a series of coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria.The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed -
Germany and Russia
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Blitzkrieg onto Poland
known as the September Campaign.was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe -
Battle of the Atlantic
the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, was the Allied naval blockade of Germany -
Cash and Carry
It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1939. The revision allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation -
Battle of Britain
was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date -
The Tripartite Pact
pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II -
Four Freedoms
goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed four fundamental freedoms.Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship,Freedom from want,Freedom from fear. -
Lend Lease Act
a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945 -
Atlantic Charter
a pivotal policy statement issued -
Manhattan Project
a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II -
Japanese Attacks on Pearl Harbor
a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, -
Double V Campaign
This campaign's goal was to reach two main victories. The first was victory over Axis powers that were present in World War II. The second was power over racism in the United States. -
Nazis develpoed the final solution
was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust -
Bataan Death March
forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II -
Doolittle Raids
an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. -
WAAC
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps -
Battle of Midway
one of the most important naval battles of World War II.only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
Battle Of Stalingrad
was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union -
Casablanca conference
plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II -
Development of Rosie The Riveter
representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II -
Tehran conference
was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
D-Day
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, -
Tuskegee Airmen
popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. Their nickname was Redtails. -
Battle of the Bulge
was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe -
Yalta Conference
meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, -
Battle of Iwo Jima
a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Battle of Okinawa
was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War 2. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day.to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Atomic Bomb
This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day. day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II -
Nuremberg Trails
were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany -
Prime Minister Churchill
Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
