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Invasion of Manchuria
In several months japanese troops completly controlled the entire province. After the invasion japan quit the leauge of nations. -
Hitler takes power
Hitler used the treaty of Verailles to rally the german people saying that Germany was punished unjustly. Hitler was a drifting soldier after WW1 wondering germany. -
Nuetrality acts
The first two acts outlawed the sale of arms or loans to warring nations.
The third act extanded the ban on sales of arms to nations engaged in cival war. -
Spanish civil war
3,000 Americans formed the Abraham Lincoln Battalion and fought against Franco. Hitler and Mussolini backed Franco with troops ,weopons, tanks, and fighter planes, -
Japanese invasion of china
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Munich Agreement
The agreement in which Britan and france agreed to let hitle anex the sudetenland.
Chamberline returned to britan saying "My friends, there has come back from germany peace and honor. I belive it is peace in our time. -
German Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The British and french gave into Hitlers demands and gave him the Sudetenland without a fight. Hitler promished this would be his last territorial gain but Whinston Churchill had warned it was not. -
Battle of the Atlantic
Was between 1939 to 1945
After Pearl Harbor Hitler orderd submarine raids along Americas east coast. By early 1943 American was producing 140 liberty ships each mont which outweighed the number of submarines the germans could replace ar ships they could destroy. -
Non Agression pact
The pact in which the soviot union and germany would not attack each other and split poland in half. Hitler chose this pact so that he would not have to fight on a second front. -
invasion of Poland
The invasion of poland was the firt test of germany's new tactic the blitzkrieg or lightning war. Two days after the attack Britan and France declared war on germany. -
Invasion of Denmark/Norway
The invasion of Denmark and Norway was a surprise attack launched by Hitler. Hitler attcked Norway and Denmark in order to protect those countries freedom and independence. -
Fall of France
After France fell Hitler orderd a Nazi controlled goverment lead by Masrshall Phillippe Petian. Hitler gave the surremder papers to french officers according to his terms of surrender. -
Battle of Britan
Hitler had 26,000 planes at his disposal. September 15th, 1940 the RAF shot down 185 german planes but the RAF only 26. -
lend-lease
Gave the united states the power to send any supplies to certian warring noations. Was also created to aid any nation whos defense was crucial to the united states. -
Atlantic Charter
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met secretly on the USS Augusta
They agreed on a joint decleration of war arms -
Pearl Harbor
The japanese launched an air raid on Oahu Hawii where the largest U.S navel base was at pearl Harbor. This attack brought american into the war.
Three aircraft carriers survived at sea which was crucial to the wars outcome. -
Doolittles Raid
A daring raid on Tokyo lead by lieutenaunt colonel James Doolittle and 16 bombers. Americans wake up to headlines saying "Tokyo Bombed! Doolittle Do'od It". -
Battle of midway
Americans learned the Midway was Japans next target by cracking Japanese codes. The victory at midway was the starting point of the allies island hopping tactic -
Battle of stalingrad
Streched from july 1942 to Febuary 1943
Was the turning point in Europe When the soviots launched a massive counter attck and pushed twards berlin Germany.
Defending Stalingrad the soviets lost a total of 1,100,000 soldiers. -
Operation Toarch North African front
!07,000 allied troops landed in casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in north Africa. After months of heavy fighting in may 1943 the last of the afrika Korps surrenderd. -
Italian campaign
Sicily was captured in the summer of 1943 After the deffeat at Sicily the iItalian goverment forced Mussolinii to resign. -
D_Day
The massive allie invasion of Europe through France. The allies gatherd a force of nearly 3million American, British, and Canadian troops. -
liberation of france
After george pattons third army met up with french resistance forces they reached the seine river south of paris. By september 1944 the allies freed france, belgium, and luxembourg. -
Battle of leyte gulf
It was fought betwwen the combined Austraiiln and American forces against the imperial Japanese Navy. Was the first time the dangours and deadly Kamikaze was introduced. -
Battle of the bulge
This was Hitlers last gasp offensive in order to try to break allie moral. By the end of the battle Germans lost 120,000 troops, 600 tanks and assulte guns, and 1,600 planes. -
Yalta Conference
The big three discused the fate of germany and the post war world for eight days in Yalta in the soviot Union.
Roosevelt wanted stalins support for a peace keeping orginization to be called the united nations. -
iwo jima
Was fought from febuary 19th to march 16th 1945. The island contained 20,700 japanese soldiers in which only 200 survived leaving 6,000 marines dead. Iwo jima was important to the US so they could have a base where heavily loaded bombers could reach japan. -
Okinawa
By the time the battle had ended more than 7,600 americans had died and 110,000 japanese soldiers died. Due to Okinawa the allies decided not to invade japan seeing the japanese die for a little island forcasted an invasion of the mainland. -
FDR'S Death
Roosevelt did not live to see V-E Day. While posing for a portrait in warm springs Georgia Roosevelt had a stroke and died -
V-E Day
President Roosevelt did not live to see V-E Day.
Hitler killed himself and had his body burned to avoid the disgrace of capitulation. A week after Hitlers death Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich. -
Nuremburg Trials
The trials consisted of 24 surviving nazi leaders. Of those 24 only 12 were sentenced to death the others sent to prison in later trials 200 more nazis -
Hiroshima
One of two atomic bombs dropped on japan. Hiroshima was an important japanese military center. -
V-J Day
V-J Day was declared because the Japanese Emporer was horrified at the distruction of the atomic bombs america had unleashed.
On September 2 formal surrender cerimonies took place on the U.S battle ship Missouri in tokyo Bay. Macarthur says today the guns are silent. -
Nagasaki
The second atomic bomb dropped on japanese soil. This bomb was smaller than the one dropped on Hiroshima but still managed to kill an estimated 200,000 people. After the second bombs drop Emperor Hirohito told his military leaders to draw up surrender papers.
