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Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting where all leader involved in the Final Solution met. They met up to discuss how they were going to gather all the Jews from all around Germany and get them to the entertainment camos without drawing too much attention to themselves. They also discussed ways to proceed in a mass murder. These leaders were basically making a rough draft of their plans. -
Japan Invades China
Japan chose to invade China because they both wanted to be the head of power. At the time, Japan needed more economical resources. They lacked the industrial and military sources so they took them from China. All Japan wanted was to cause war. -
Euthanasia (Good Death) Program
The Euthanasia Program was Nazi Germany’s first mass murder attempt, which was started by Adolf Hitler. This program, also known as the Holocaust lasted two years. This targeted people who had mental or physical and people who they didn’t believe to be “perfect”. They soon started killing innocent children with these disabilities. Toward the end, the creators of the Final Solution started creating things like gas chambers, or showers, to kill the prisoners quicker. -
SS
The Schutzstaffel was a group ran by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. This was a guard unit, it was made up of volunteers who protected the members at Nazi Party meetings in Munich. This group was the group most responsible for result of the Final Solution and many members committed crimes against humanity. -
Hitler attacks Poland
Hitler attacks Poland, within weeks after the invasion, Poland was defeated. Hitler used over 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes to break through Poland's defence In the aftermath of the invasion, the underground organizations formed the Polish Underground State, within the territory of the former Polish state. Many of the military prisoners that managed to escape Poland joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West, an armed force loyal to the Polish government in exile. -
Refugees were Not Allowed in the US
Hitler wanted to contain the Jews by forcing them all to stay in one place, so he passed a no immigration law. Many Jews were sent around the country and when they were finally accepted they were taken in as refugees and killed in the Holocaust. For example, the United States refused to admit more than 900 refugees who had sailed from Hamburg, Germany, Cuba, Florida. After the United States denied it permission to land, they returned to Europe Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. -
Britain Declares War on the US
Hitler believed that the United States was a step ahead of Germany. The US Navy, at the time, was already attacking U-boats. Also Hitler despised President Roosevelt for being verbally abusive towards Naziism. Hitler’s main goal to defeat Russia, he believed defeating the US first would be wise. -
Tuskegee Airmen
Many African Americans at the time were seen to be unintelligent, but then they were given the chance to help their country fight and win the war. These men were the first all African American unit, they would fly on the around the bomb to secure it, make sure it got to it’s destination safely. -
Pearl Harbor is attacked
On this day hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked a Navy base called Pearl Harbor, located by Honolulu Hawaii. Even though this attack only lasted two hours it was extremely devastating, the Japanese managed to destroy twenty naval and killed over 2,000 American soldiers, wounding another 1,000. -
FDR asks congress to declare war on Japan
President Roosevelt gave a speech on why he was declaring war on Japan. He wanted the people to feel betrayed by Japan, he kept emphasizing the fact that Japan caught the US by surprise. FDR wanted people to feel betrayed to light a fire under them, this would make them support the US attack back.He also wanted the United States citizens to be confident in their attack back. -
Double V Campaign
The Double V Campaign was a double win for the African Americans, both at home and on the battlefield. African Americans were finally being vocal about how they should be treated equally, so they were now being given the opportunity to join war, to earn their freedom and escape from Jim Crow Laws. These African Americans were not only fighting for their own freedom, but for the freedom of people everywhere. -
Executive order 9066
The Executive order 9066 was when President Roosevelt felt that since he was president that he would make a simple law. He made the law that anyone who was a threat to the US would be sent to internment camps, he was doing this to protect the United States from attacks. He told the Secretary of War and Military Commanders to carry out this law and to do what they needed to do to protect this country. -
Hitler Invades Russia
Many can not comprehend to why Hitler invaded Russia. One week into the invasion 150,000 Soviet soldiers. By the end of the invasion 600,000 soldiers were captured and three million were prisoners of war. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany’s second attempt to take Russia. This was a major battle that the Nazis fought against the Soviet Union for control over the city of Stalingrad. Civilians attacked by air raids, this battle being the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of battles. Russia won this battle. -
Navajo Code talkers
Navajo were seen as useless to the United States for a long time, they were told to forget their language and to speak only English. When it came to war, the Navajo code talkers were a key in winning the war. The US used their secret language as a code, the Navajos would be sent in pairs with a Marine and they would communicate with other Navajo Marines to inform them on the conditions they are currently in. -
Warsaw Ghetto
When the Nazi’s went into their last Ghetto, or town, the civilians there became very rebellious. All of them refusing to come out, so the Nazi’s couldn’t take them to an internment camp. The Nazi’s killed 13,000 Jews that day, they were either burned alive or suffocated. -
Roosevelt created War Refugee Board.
President Roosevelt held a meeting to inform his boards members of Hitler’s plan. His plan being to exterminate the whole population of Jews, and he wanted to do everything he could to prevent that. -
Battle of the Bulge
The German tried to take over the Belgian city, Antwerp. Hitler needed to win this battle so he could focus on Eastern Theatre of War. The Americans tied this battle with a lose of 81,000 lives. -
Yalta Conference
After Hitler’s death, three leaders got together to discuss Germany’s untraditional surrender and what the plans were to be post war. They decided to take over four sections and have it be runned by their countries and France. -
Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima is a small island off of Japan. The United States went into the battle wanted to capture the whole island. This battle lasted five weeks and is considered one of the most bloodiest battles of the War in the Pacific. By the time the United States succeeded 200,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and 7,000 American soldiers died. -
Okinawa
Japan and the United States battled for 82 days. The US used four divisions of their Army and two from their Marine division. This battle had the largest death scale out of all the battles in this war, 200,000 Japanese died and 19,000 Americans died. -
V-E-Day in Europe
V-E day in Europe was to a celebration thrown by the Allies, to celebrate the surrendering of Nazi Germany. April 30 Hitler committed suicide, forcing the Nazis to surrender. -
Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped a bomb on Hiroshima called Little Boy. It killed 80,000 people died instantly, 60,000 died within the year and 60,000 died throughout the years. -
Nagasaki
This is where the second Atomic-bomb was dropped at 11:02am. This bomb was more powerful than the one used in Hiroshima, weighed nearly 10,00 pounds. The bomb killed 60 to 80 thousand people in the first few months. -
Hirohito surrenders
Hirohito surrendered on August 15, 1945. The United States never wanted to harm the innocent Japanese citizens, they had no choice, if they didn’t put this behavior to an end the Japanese would have lost even more of it’s population. -
Nuremberg Trials
After the war, many Nazi’s were taken to these trials. They were tried with crime against peace, war crimes, and crime against humanity. Many thought this would be a fair punishment because these people were responsible for all those innocent people who were now dead.
