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World War 2
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Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party
The Nazi party is known as the National Socialist. Nazism was a form of fascism. Hitler told Germans that they were a "master race" destine to rule over Slavs, Gypsies, and others they considered inferior. Hitler makes them hate Jews. Hitler falsely claimed that Germany had not lost WW1 but had been betrayed by Jews and other "traitors." -
Benito Mussolini appointed Prime Minister of Italy
He promised to restore order through strong leadership. Him and his followers threatend to overthrow Italy's government. So the King appointed him to Prime Minister. Mussolini ened freedom of the press and banned all political parties except his own. Critics were jailed or murdered. -
Josef Stalin sole dictator of the Solviet Union (USSR)
Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state. He took burtal measures to control and modernize industrys and agriculture. He forced peasent to give up crops, animals, and land to government-run farms. Millions who didnt were executed or sent to labor camps. -
Japan's Army seizes Manchuria, China
Without approval of the Japan's elected government, the Japanese army seized Manchuria in the northeastern China. The Leauge of Nations protested, but did nothing. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
Once he became chancellor he quickly created a totlitarian state. All other parties were outlawed. All Jews were banned from public schools. Jewish comunities were attacked and troops began sending Jews to salve labor camps -
Neutrality Acts passed by US congress
Was made to keep the US at peace, it forbade the President from selling arms, making loans, or giving any other kind of assistance to any nation involved in war. -
Italian Army invades Ethiopia in Africa
The Ethiopians fought bravely, they were no match for Italy's modern tanks and weapons. The Empor of Ethiopia went to the Leauge of Nations for help but Britain and France had their own problems so Ethiopia fell to the invaders -
Militarist take control of Japanese Government
The Japanese militarist preached racism. The Japanese, they said, were superior to other Asians as well as non-Asians -
Hitler sends troops into Rhineland of Germany in violation of the Versailles treaty
Hitler sent two troops to Rhineland region of western Germany in 1936. Two years later, German armies occupied Austria. The European democracies did noting. -
Japan's army pillages Nanjing
For six weeks Japanese forces pillaged the Chinese city of Nanjing. A quarter of a million people were massacred -
Nazis begin roundung up Jews for labor camps
Jewish comunities were attacked and troops began sending Jews to salve labor camps -
Munich Pact signed giving the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany
Britain and France agreed to let German leader occupy the Sudetenland, a portion of Czechoslovakia populated largely by people who spoke German. In return, Hitler promised he would seek no further territory -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin
The two dictators made the Pact to assure that they wouldnt attack eachother and secretly divide up poland -
Nazis invade Poland
The Nazis invaded Poland and 16 days later the Soviet Union seized eastern Poland. Stalin's forces also invaded Finland, and later annexed Latvia, and Lithuania. Then finally Britain and France declared war on Germany -
Battle of Britain
Hitler ordered an air assault on Britain. Day after day, German planes attacked British cities. The raids took tons of lives but the British spirit never broke. The British air force fought invadin planes. It ladted summer through fall, Hitler finally had abandoned all planes to invade Britian. -
First time Peachtime Draft in US
Introduced into Congress two days before the fall of France and signed into law three months later as Luftwaffe bombs set London afire, the Selective Training and Service Act began the process by which fifteen million Americans were inducted into the armed services during the Second World War. -
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luexembourg and Belgium
The Nazis moverd north seizing Denmark and Norway, In May they marched west to conquer the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. -
Hitler invades France and France surrendered
Britain sent troops to France to help but they were quickly overpowered. The Germans had forced them to retreat to Dunkirk, a French port on the English Channel. In bold action, the British sent every boat across the resuce the trapped soliders. German armies enter France and marched on to Paris and France surrenders -
Japanese invade French territory
Japan invaded the french colony of indochina. In response roosevelt banned american export of iron and steelscrap to Japan. He also restricted the sale of oil to Japan. Facing a shortage of fuel for their navy Japanese leaders decided on war. Plans for an attack on the US were soon underway -
Hitler breaks the pact with Stalin
Hitler breaks his pact with Stalin and a huge German force crossed into the USSR. The Soviet Union joins the fight with Britain. -
Churchill and FDR issue the Alantic Charter
They were outlining their goals for the postwar world.They both agreed that they would not seek any terriory. And they also called for a new international organization that might succeed. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese lanched a huge bomb attack on Peral Harbor, of Hawaiianisland of Oahu. The attack destroyed nearly half of the Island's 400 military aircraft and damaged 8 battelships. About 2,400 Americans died.It was a huge surprise on the military leaders of the US. On December 8th the United states delcared war on Japan, and thats when the US entered another world war. -
Japanese Americans interned in isolated camps
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Russians stop Nazi advance at Stalingrad
Russians stopped Nazis from advancing ro Stalingard. The soviet Union won a clear victory. From then they pushed them back westward. -
Bataan Death March
The Japanese captured 70,000 American and Filipino soliders. They were forced to walk 65 miles to a prison camp. Along the way tond died from hunger, dieases, and violence. -
Battel of Mid-Way
The Japanese wanted to take over Midway, home of a key American military base. But the Americans sank 4 of 6 Japanese air craft carriers, destroyed 332 japanese air craft, and reduced Japan's supply of highly trained pilots. -
Italy Surrenders
Musslini is dismissed as Prime Minister. The new government surrendered to the Allies. German troops in Italy continued to fight. The Allies would face a long struggle before they finally controlled Italy. -
Zoot Suit Riots
Young Mexican Americans in Los Angeles often dressed in showy "zoot suits." Bands of saliors on shore leave attacked young Mexican Americans, beating them. Newspapapers blamed the Zoot Suite Riots" on the Mexican Americans, but Eleanor Roosevelt argued that it was longstanding dicrimination against the Mexicans in the Southwest -
British and US forces defeat German and Italian armies in North Africa
The first American ground troops in combat landed in North Africa. Under the command of Dwight D. Eisenhower, they occupied Morocco and Algeria. Hemmed in on both sides, Rommel's army surrendered in May, 1943 -
D-Day invasion of France at Normandy by Allies
More than 155,000 Americans, Canadian, and British troops crossed the English Channel. They landed on five beaches at Normandy, In Western France. Troops at four of the Beaches quickly overcame German Opposition. -
Paris retaken by Allies Forces
Facing understrength and worn out German defenders, the fresh American units, supported by swarms of Sherman tanks, were able, after a few fierce battles, to retake the French capital on the 20th of December, allowing de Gaule to broadcast to his people from their capital on Christmas day. The collapse of Nazi Germany looked imminent. -
Battle of the Bulge
Germans counterattacked in Belgium. Hitler poured his remaining reserves into the attack. Bad weather grounded Allied aircraft for the first week of the battle. This allowed the German troops to creat a bugle in the American lines. The German Troops came close, but in the end their attempts to figh off defeat proved futile. German troops were shot of supplies, especially fuel. The Allies had additional troops in reserve. Germany was running out of soliders.American forces won the battle. -
US forces return to recapture the Philippines
Army units landed on Luzon, in the Philippines, and then advanced on Manila. After nearly a monh of urban warfare, the Americans secured the City. The Philippine campaign cost the lives of 14,000 Americans and 350,000 Japanese, as wellas some 100,000 Filipino civilian. -
FDR dies
FDR dies from a stroke. His death shattered Americans. FDR's vice president Harry S. Turman becomes president. Turman had little experience dealing with important policy issues. -
V-E Day
Soviet troops began an assault on Berlin. Hitler took shelter in a bunker built beneath the city's streets. There, with his Nazi empire in ruins, he committed suicide. A week later, representatives of Germany's armed forces unconditionally surrendered at Eisenhower's headquaters in France. The Allies celebrated VE-DAY (victory in Europe) -
First Atomic Bomb dropped
An American plane dropped the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The destruction was like nothing the world had never seen before. More than 130,000 people died.The Emperor still didn't surrender, so Truman ordered an another attack on Nagasaki, Japan. 35,000 people died and other would die slowly from radiation posining. -
V-J Day Japan
It took two atomic bombs for the Emperor of Japan to surrender. Many other people died from radiation posining. -
War Crimes Trials
In Germany city on Nuremberg, Allied judges tried prominent Nazis for plunging the world into war and for the horrors of the death camps. 12 defendants were sentenced to death by hanging . Similar trials were held in Manila and Tokyoto try leaders of the Japanese war machine.
