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Benito Mussolini became the leader of italy
He is considered a central figure in the creation of Fascism and was both an influence on and close ally of Adolf Hitler during World War II. In 1943, Mussolini was replaced as Prime Minister and served as the head of the Italian Social Republic until his execution by Italian partisans in 1945. -
Joseph Stalin became the leader of the USSR
began after he became the undisputed leader of Russia in 1929. He banned all private businesses, eliminated opposition, and started an over twenty year’s long campaign of killing fellow countrymen by the millions. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Holocaust began
Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. it was all under adolf hitler. -
Adolf Hitler became the leader of germany
he came into power are attributed to him being a good orator which enabled him to give speeches that could convince the masses. He also had an effective propaganda machine, was well financed, among many other factors. -
FDR began is Good Neighbor Policy
The policy's main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America. It also reinforced the idea that the United States would be a “good neighbor” and engage in reciprocal exchanges with Latin American countries. -
Congress passes the Neutrality Acts
response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II.They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
Ethiopia (Abyssinia), which Italy had unsuccessfully tried to conquer in the 1890s, was in 1934 one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia -
Japan invaded china
Chinese forces were unable to effectively resist the Japanese. The Japanese military was not only better armed and organized, they were also incredibly brutal. The rape of Nanking was some of the most terrible atrocities of World War II. The Japanese methodically moved south, seizing control of most of eastern China and all of the major ports by the time war broke out in Europe. -
Nazis developed 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, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. -
European appeasement of hitler began
under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, participated in many aggressive actions which violated the Treaty of Versailles. France and Great Britain, in an attempt to maintain peace in Europe so soon after The Great War, gave in to many of Germany’s demands and actions. The policy of giving in to Germany’s demands in order to maintain peace was known as Appeasement. -
Kristallnacht
was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. -
Germany and Russia signed a nonaggression pact
The arrangement allowed Hitler to launch his forces against Poland knowing that he would not suffer from Russian interference. -
Germany began the blitzkrieg into Poland
1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II. -
cash and carry
was a policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress. 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. -
Churchill became the prime Minister of Great Britian
is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter's resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons. -
Battle of the Atlantic
was the longest continuous military campaign. was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. -
Battle of Britian
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 was signed
a pact signed in Berlin, Germany; which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
MacArthur "returned"to the phillippines
kept the promise he had made 2.5 years earlier to the people of the Philippines: he returned to the islands with an enormous invasion force and the largest assemblage of naval vessels. For MacArthur, the liberation of the Philippines from the Japanese was the culmination of the war. -
Tuskegee Airmen
name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. -
Four Freedoms
four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:
Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear -
Lend lease Act
was 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 was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. -
OPA created
was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Double V
was a motivational tool used to propose two changes - one was to allow African Americans to fight in the war, and the other was to allow African Americans to be equal in society. This campaign occurred during World War 2. -
Development of Rosie the Riveter
is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. Rosie the Riveter is commonly used as a symbol of feminism and women's economic power. -
Japanesse put in internment camps in the U.S.
was 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. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. -
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
was 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. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, was retaliation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -
WAAC formed
was the women's branch of the United States Army. -
Battle of midway
fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive. -
Manhattan Project
was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
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
was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War. -
Casablanca conference
to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. In attendance were United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and representing the Free French forces, Generals Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud. Premier Joseph Stalin had declined to attend, citing the ongoing conflict in Stalingrad required his presence in the Soviet Union. -
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
The legislation was hurriedly created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significantly lowered due to high wartime inflation, struck for a $2-a-day wage increase. -
Tehran Conference
was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders -
D-Day
the 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
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. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties -
yalta conference
was the World War II 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, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization -
Battle of iwo JIma
was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. -
FDR died
was diagnosed with a massive cerebral hemorrhage (stroke) . -
Battle of Okinawa
was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. -
V-E Day
was the public holiday. marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Hiroshima was a city of both industrial and military significance. The 393d Bombardment Squadron B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by Tibbets, took off from North Field, Tinian, about six hours' flight time from Japan. The Enola Gay (named after Tibbets' mother) was accompanied by two other B-29s. The Great Artiste, commanded by Major Charles Sweeney, carried instrumentation, and a then-nameless aircraft later called Necessary Evil, commanded by Captain George Marquardt, served as the photography aircraft -
V-J Day
name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
Nuremburg 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. -
Navaho Code Talkers Used
were people who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native-American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages
