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Benito Mussolini
Becomes the leader of Italy -
Holocaust
The mass slaughter of people, mainly Jewish, by the Nazi party -
FDR
Began his Good Neighbor Policy -
Adolf Hitler
Becomes the leader of Germany -
Congress
Passed the Neutrality Act -
Ethiopia
Italy invades Ethiopia -
Japan Invades China
Lauches the second Sino-Japanese war -
European Appeasment
European appeasment of Hitler began -
Kristallnacht
Also called the Night of Broken Glass, Nazi's in Germany vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses -
Germany and Russia
Signed a nonagression pact -
Blitskrieg
Germany began Blitzkrieg in Poland. It's also known as Lightning war -
Battle of the Atlantic
The longest battle of World War II that was fought on the sea -
Cash and Carry
It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1939 -
Navajo Code Talkers Used
The Navajo language was used as code during the war -
Churchill
Churchill becomes the Prime minister of Great Britain -
Battle of Britain
The largest bombing campaign to date was fought over the United Kingdom -
The Tripartite Pact
Signed by the Axis powers -
Four Freedoms
President Roosevelt addressed the speech to congress to have four different paintings that had messages of freedom -
Lend Lease Act
Where America supplies allies with material during the war -
Development of Rosie the Riveter
When woman began to fill in jobs that men usually occupied -
Nazis developed the Final Solution
Nazi Germany's plan to exterminate the Jews -
Joseph Stalin
Became the leader of the USSR -
Atlantic Charter
A proclamation made by Britain and America declaring that they were fighting the Axis Powers to preserve the rights of man -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack on pearl harbor -
OPA Created
Mandates that no one will be permitted to own more than five automobile tires -
Japanese put in internment camps in the U.S.
Forced American's of Japanese decent to live on the west coast after Pearl Harbor -
Double V
A victory for black American's at home and abroad -
Tuskegee Airmen
Were black servicemen of the U.S. Army Air Force who trained in Tuskegee in Alabama -
Bataan Death March
Forced to march 63 miles, many U.S and Filipino prisinors died on the journey or escaped into the jungle -
Doolittle Raids
Doolittle's raid on Tokyo -
WAAC
Stands for Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, formed -
Battle of Midway
One of the most important naval battles during World War II -
Battle of Stalingrad
Succesful soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad -
Operation Torch
British and American invasion of French North Africa -
Casablanca Conference
A conference to plan allied european battle strategy -
Smith-Connally Anti Strike Act
Wage increase for coal miners -
Tehran Conference
A meeting between the U.S President, the Britsh Prime Minister and Soviet's Premier Joseph Stalin -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy, in France -
MacArthur "Returned" to the Philippines
Attempted to liberate the philippinos from the japanese -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe -
Yalta Conference
Second wartime meeting -
Battle of Iwo Jima
U.S. Marines land on the islands of Iwo Jima -
Battle of Okinawa
Biggest pacific island battle -
FDR Died
Died of Cerebral hemorrhage -
V-E Day
Allied victory in Europe -
Manhattan Project
A development and research project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II -
Hiroshima
Atomic bombed dropped on Hiroshima by the United States -
Japan Invaded Manchuria
Japans attempt to gain control over parts of China -
Numerberg Trails
After the war, those who were responsible for crimes committed during the holocaust were brought to trail -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan
