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Battle of Okinawa
battle to control the island for a base by the U.S. -
Stalin Becomes Leader
Joseph Stalin Elected leader of USSR -
Mussolini Becomes leader
Mussolini Becomes leader of italy -
Japan invaded Manchuria
Japan invades Manchuria setting up Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Japan invades China
Japan invades Manchuria following Mukden Incident. -
Haulocost
The Holocaust began starting the genocide of the Jews. -
Adolf HItler Becomes leader
Hitler Becomes Chancellor/Leadeer of Germany -
Good neighbor policy
the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. -
Neutrility Acts
General embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
Italy Invades Ethiopia adopting Germany's expansion plans. -
European appeasment of hitler
Appeasment to avoid war between Germany and other countries -
Kristallnacht
a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria -
WAAC
A British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 -
Germany and Russia Non aggression pact
Nonaggression pact between germany and russia signed in moscow -
German Blitzkreig
Germany invades poland with blitzcreig tactic -
Battle of the Atlantic
Longest continuing military campaign; it was a naval campaign against Germany. -
Cash and Carry
A policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress to allow the sale of material to belligerents. -
Tuskegee Airmen
group of the first African-American pilots who fought in World War II. -
Churchill becomes Prime Minister
Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister of Great Britan -
Battle of Britain
Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom. -
Four Freedoms
Proposed 4 freedoms by FDR that the whole world should enjoy:Speech Worship, Freedom of want, and freedom of fear. -
Double V
Victory Abroad and Victory at Home Written in The paper, Supporting the allowance of African Americans to fight in the war and have equal rights. -
Lend lease act
Program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel. -
OPA Created
OPA Created to control money and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
Japenese Attack
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan -
Atlantic Charter
It Defined the post war plans for the allied forces. -
Code talkers
Navajo Codes to talk in WW2 -
Japanese internment camps
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. -
Final Solution
Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe. -
Rosie The Riviter
American women who worked in factories during World War II. -
Bataan Death March
Forcible Transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of prisoners of wars. -
Doolittle Raids
An air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo -
Battle of Midway
One of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Manhattan Project
The development and research of the first atomic bomb. -
Battle of Stalangrad
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 WW2. -
Casablanca Conference
Plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II -
Smith-Connoly Act
allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes that would interfere with war production. -
tehran Conference
strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
DDay
The landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. -
Mcarthurs return
McArthur return to the phillipines with an enormous invasion. -
Battle of the bulge
German offensive campaign attacking allied powers un expectedly. -
Yalta Conference
was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. -
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. -
FDR Dies
Fdr dies -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe day of the formal acceptance of Germanys surrender of their armed forces. -
Hiroshima Bombing
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day when Japan Surrendered. -
Nuremburg Trials
series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II -
Tripartite Pact Signed
The Tripartite Pact was signed establishing Axis powers of world war 2.
