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Benito Mussolini
an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Ministen -
Bleitzkreig
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. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
The Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. Their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Good Neighborhood Policy
reinforced the idea that the United States would be a “good neighbor” and engage in reciprocal exchanges with Latin American countries -
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 Invaes Ethiopia
the war is best remembered for exposing the inherent weakness of the League of Nations. fought between The Kingdom of Italy and Ethiopian Empire -
Jaoan invaes China
Result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily and to secure its vast raw material reserves and other economic resources -
Kristallnacht
ˈ, was a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria -
Battle of Altantic
longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. -
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 -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. -
Battle of Britian
Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom -
The Tripartite Pact
established the Axis Powers of World War II -
Four Freedoms
were goals articulated byUnited States President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1.Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear -
Navaho Code Talkers
people who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. -
Lease Lend Act
a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel -
Atlantic Charter
defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It -
OPA Created
established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 -
Japanese Interment Campzs
the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. -
Rosie the Riveter
represented the American women who worked in factories during World War II -
Bataan Death March
was the 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 -
WAAC
was the women's branch of the United States Army. -
Battle of Midway
Japan's first naval defeat since the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits in 1863, One of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Operation Torch
British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
Casablanca Act
planned the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Anti Strike Acr
Allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes that would interfere with war production -
Tehran Confrerence
main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies. held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
D Day
day of the Normandy landings initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. -
Battle of the Bulge
as 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
The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union -
Battle of Iwo Jime
battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Battle of Okinawa
the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. 82-day-long battle -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime.Conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II -
Roosevelt Dies
massive cerebral hemorrhage (stroke) -
V-E Day
mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Holocaust Began
the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, , led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, -
V-J Day
Day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II -
Nuremburg Trials
most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
Manhattan Project
A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War 2. -
Adolf Hitler become sthe leader of Germany