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Benito Mussolini
became leader of italy -
Joseph Stalin
1920's. Became leader of USSR -
Japan
Invaded China -
Japan
Invaded Manchuria -
Holocaust
began -
Adolf hitler
Bacame leader of Germany -
FDR
Began good neighbor policy. 1933 -
Congress
Passed the nutrality act -
Italy
Invaded Ethiopia -
European Appeasement Of Hitler
BEGAN ! ! ! -
Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass." The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms -
Manhattan project
1939.research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II -
Germany and Russia
signed a nonaggression pact -
Germany
Began the blitz into poland -
Battle of atlantic
longest continuous military campaign in World War II -
Ca$h and Carry
give the western Europeans assistance without risking American lives and gambling on their ability to pay them back in the future -
Churchill
Became the prime minister of Great Britian -
Battle of britian
Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, -
the triparitite pact
signed -
Four Freedoms
Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear -
Lend Lease act
principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II -
Nazis
Develope the final solution -
Japanese
Attack Pearl Harbor -
Double V
intended to accomplish two things: victory over the Axis powers abroad and victory over Jim Crow and racism at home. -
Japanese
Put internment camps in the US -
MacArthur
"returned" to the philapines -
Bataan Death March
the prisoners were forced to march 85 miles in six days, with only one meal of rice -
Doolittle Raids
air raid to strike the Japanese home islands during WWII -
Navaho Code Talkers Used
The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers -
Battle of midway
Japanese military planners were elated with the results of the first phase of the war in the Pacific -
Atlantic charter
defined the Allied goals for the post-war world -
Battle of stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Operation Torch
name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 -
Casablanca Confrence
plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Developement
of Rosie the Riveter, used to refer to all women who worked in defense -
Smith Connally anti strike act
This Act allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes that would interfere with war production. -
WAAC
Formed !Women's Army Auxiliary Corps -
Tehran confrence
three leaders coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan -
D- Day
invasion of Normandy, France. -
battle of bulge
German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia -
yalta confrence
Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima. -
V-E Day
VE Day celebrations in Britain at the end of WW2 -
Battle of Okinawa
Also Known As Operation Iceberg, -
FDR
DIED !! -
Atomic Bomb
Dropped on Hiroshima -
V-J Day
VJ Day marks the end of WWII -
Nuremberg Trials
the trial of the major war criminals by the International Military Tribunal -
OPA
Created -
Tuskegee Airmen
popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II
