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World War II

  • 1944 BCE

    Korematsu v. United States

    Korematsu v. United States
    In 1944, the Supreme Court decided that the government's policy of evacuating Japanese Americans to camps was justified on the basis of "military necessity".
  • 1943 BCE

    U.S. convoy system

    U.S. convoy system
    The Battle of the Atlantic is when the Germans sank American ships so that they could not bring supplies to Great Britain and the Soviet Union. In 6 months they sank 681 ships. The Allies cargo ships into convoys. The ships travelled together with destroyers and airplanes to spot U-boats. That was in 1943.
  • 1943 BCE

    Unconditional surrender

    Unconditional surrender
    Enemy nations had to accept what ever terms of peace the Allies dictated.
  • 1942 BCE

    Battle of the Atlantic

    Battle of the Atlantic
    After the attack on Pearl Harbor Hitler ordered submarine raids against ships along America's east coast. the German aim in the Battle of the Atlantic was to prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
  • Period: 1942 BCE to 1945 BCE

    Office of Price Administration (OPA)

    Roosevelt responded to this threat. It fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents on most goods. It rationed foods, such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar, and coffee. The higher taxes reduced consumer demand on scare goods by leaving workers with less to spend.
  • Period: 1942 BCE to 1945 BCE

    War Productions Board (WPB)

    It assumed that responsibility. It decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries. It rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort, such as gasoline, heating oil, materials, rubber, and plastics.
  • Period: 1941 BCE to 1942 BCE

    Manhattan Project

    The committee reported that it would take from 3 to 5 years to build an atomic bomb. Hoping to shorten that time, the OSRD set up an intensive program to develop a bomb as quickly as possible. Because much of the early research was performed at Columbia University in Manhattan, it became the code name for research work that extended across the country.
  • 1940 BCE

    The Battle of Britain

    The Battle of Britain
    The Germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast in the summer. Because of its naval power could not compete with that of Britain, Germany also launched an air war at the same time. The Luftwaffe began making bombing runs over Britain.
  • 1940 BCE

    Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act
    The president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the United States.
  • 1936 BCE

    Francisco Franco

    Francisco Franco
    A group of Spanish army officers rebelled against the Spanish republic in 1936. Revolts broke out all over Spain, and the Spanish Civil War began.
  • 1935 BCE

    Hitler invades the Rhineland

    Hitler invades the Rhineland
    Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, a German region bordering France and Belgium that was demilitarized as a result of the Treaty of Versaillies a year later. The League did nothing to stop Hitler.
  • Period: 1935 BCE to

    Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia

    Tens of thousands of Italian soldiers stood ready to advance on Ethiopia by the fall of 1935 and by May 1936, Ethiopia had fallen.
  • 1933 BCE

    Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany

    Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany
    In 1919, Hitler joined the Nazi party quickly became its leader. Nazism is the German brand of fascism. Hitler dreamed of a great German empire, and national expansion. He enforced racial "purification". War debts had hurt the German economy. Many employed men joined Hitlers army. In 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor and quickly replaced democracy with The 3rd Reich.
  • Period: 1933 BCE to 1935 BCE

    Hitler's military build-up in Germany

    Hitler pulled Germany out of the League in 1933 and in 1935 he began a military buildup in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • 1932 BCE

    Storm troopers

    Storm troopers
    They were people in Hitler's private army.
  • 1931 BCE

    Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese invasion of Manchuria
    In 1931, ignoring the protests of more moderate Japanese officials, the militarists launched a surprise Attack and seized control of the Chinese province of Manchuria.
  • 1925 BCE

    Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf
    Mein Kampf was the book that Hitler wrote. It was to secure more land for German.
  • 1924 BCE

    Joseph Stalin's totalitarian government in the Soviet Union

    Joseph Stalin's totalitarian government in the Soviet Union
    From 1924 to 1939 Stalin worked as establish a totalitarian government with complete over its citizen. People had no individual rights and the government controlled everything such as farms and economic activities.
  • Benito Mussolini's fascist government in Italy

    Benito Mussolini's fascist government in Italy
    In 1921 Mussolini established the Fascist party which put the state above individuals. In 1922 when many important government officials, the army, and the police sided with the Fascist, the Italian king appointed Mussolini head of the government.
  • 3rd Reich

    3rd Reich
    According to Hitler, the 3rd Reich would be a "Thousand-Year Reich "-it would last for thousand years.
  • Rome-Berlin Axis

    Rome-Berlin Axis
    The alliance that was formally signed by the German and Italian dictators as they backed the forces of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
  • Hitler's Anchluss

    Hitler's Anchluss
    German troops marched into Austria unopposed in Germany announced that its Union with Austria was complete.
  • Munich Agreement

    Munich Agreement
    Hitler declared that the annexation of Sudetenland, a mountain region in Czechoslovakia that bordered Germany would be his last territorial demand. The Munich Agreement turned this land over to Germany with out a shot being fired.
  • Nonaggression pact

    Nonaggression pact
    Fascist Germany and communist Russia signed an agreement to never attack each other.
  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg
    A new military tactic used to invade Poland. It made use of powerful aircrafts, dropping bombs, and fast tanks overwhelming the opposition.
  • Britain & France declare war on Germany

    Britain & France declare war on Germany
    2 days after the terror in Poland, Britain and france officially declared war on Germany.
  • Phony war

    Phony war
    French and British troops on the maginot line stared into Germany as German troops on the siegfried line sat and stared back.
  • Hitler's invasion of Denmark & Norway

    Hitler's invasion of Denmark & Norway
    Hitler launched a surprised invasion of Denmark and Norway. He claimed to be protecting freedom and independence but truly planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain.
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    Hitler's invasion of the Netherlands

    He launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway in order "to protect [those countries'] freedom and independence." But in truth, Hitler planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain. Next, Hitler turned against the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, which were overrun by the end of May. The phony war had ended.
  • Marshall Philippe Petain

    Marshall Philippe Petain
    Germans would occupy the northern part of France, and a Nazi-controlled puppet government, headed by Marshall Philippe Petain, would be set up at Vichy, in southern France.
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    Battle of Stalingrad

    The Germans have been fighting in the Soviet Union since June 1941. In November 1941, the bitter cold had stopped them in their tracks outside the Soviet cities of Moscow and Leningrad. When spring came, the German tanks were ready to roll.
  • Pearl Harbour attack

    Pearl Harbour attack
    A Japanese dive-bomber swooped low over Pearl Harbour the largest U.S. naval base in the Pacific.
  • Internment

    Internment
    Frightened people believed false rumors that Japanese Americans were committing sabotage by mining coastal harbors and poisoning vegetables. Early in 1942, the war Department called for the mass evacuation of all Japanese Americans from Hawaii.
  • Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)

    Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
    Women volunteers served in noncombat positions. The military's work force needs were so great that the Army Chief or Staff General George Marshall pushed for the formation.
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch
    An invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa, commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • Period: to 1945 BCE

    Blood Anzio

    The Germans armies continued to put up strong resistance during the year after Anzio.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Banking on a forecast for clearing skies, Eisenhower gave the go-ahead on the first day of the invasion. Three divisions parachuted down behind German lines shortly right after midnight.
  • The Battle of the Bulge

    The Battle of the Bulge
    Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines that gave this desperate last ditch offensive its name.
  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman
    Truman became the president when president Roosevelt Died of a stroke.
  • Death of Hitler

    Death of Hitler
    Hitler could tell that there are not winning. He shut himself. He shot himself as his wife took him.
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day
    The Allies celebrated Victory in Europe Day. the war in Europe was finally over.
  • Germany & Italy's invasion of France

    Germany & Italy's invasion of France
    A few days later, Italy entered the war on the side of Germany and invaded France from the south as the Germans closed in Paris from the north.