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Geneva Convention
the core of international humanitarian law, which regulates the conduct of armed conflict and seeks to limit its effects. -
Neutrality Act
This act was passed to limit US involvement in future wars. -
Nuremburg Laws
were racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. -
Japan Invades China
the Japanese provoked the Chinese into full-scale war with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. -
Kristallnacht
was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany -
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Russia and Germany agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years -
Poland, France, and Great Britain Declare War on Germany
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Poland Ceased to Exist
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist, as the U.S.S.R. exercises the “fine print” of the Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression pact -
"Cash and Carry"
policy President Roosevelt announced at a joint session of the United States Congress. The "Cash and Carry" allowed the sale of military arms to belligerents on the same cash-and-carry basis. -
Blitzkrieg
a method of warfare where the attacker spearheads an offence using a rapid overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry -
Soviet Union Annex Baltic States
Soviet troops began occupying bases in Latvia while preparing for war with Finland. Soviet troops began the preparation for the invasion of the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. -
Hitler Invades Denmark, Norway, and Netherlands
to secure the iron ore that shipped from Narvik. To capture Norway, the Germans had to control the port outside Aalborg in northern Jutland. -
Luftwaffe and RAF Bombings
intensified its raids against the ports in an attempt to draw the British air fleet out into the open. -
Selective Training and Service Act
An Act to provide for the common defense by increasing the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and providing for its training. -
Tripartite Pact
It created a defense alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan and was largely intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict. -
Atlantic Charter
set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II. -
Lend Lease Plan
provided for military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the United States. -
Executive Order 8802
President Roosevelt ordered the banning of discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work -
United States Cutting Trading Off With Japan
President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
a military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States -
Island Hopping Strategy
A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Axis powers during World War II. It entailed taking over an island and establishing a military base there. -
United States Declares War
in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. -
U-Boat Attacks
German U-boat attacks officially started against merchant ships along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. -
Executive Order 9066
This order by President Roosevelt authorized the evacuation of all people deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
Bataan Death March
the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were loaded onto trains. -
Battle of Midway
The U.S. Navy’s victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific -
Battle of El Alamein
marked the culmination of the North African campaign between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army commanded in the field by Erwin Rommel in World War II. -
Hitler Invades and Splits France
German troops occupy Vichy France, which had previously been free of an Axis military presence. -
D-Day
Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. Allied airborne forces parachuted into drop zones across northern France. -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany. -
Korematsu vs United States
legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, upheld the conviction of Fred Korematsu for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
a Nazi concentration camp where more than a million people were murdered -
Yalta Conference
was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe -
Battle of Iwo Jima
It was the first major battle of World War II to take place on Japanese homeland. The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan. -
Victory in Europe Day
the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Potsdam Conference
was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. -
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki -
Victory Over Japan Day
it marked the end of World War Two.
