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Churchill became the Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Joseph Stalin became the leader of the USSR
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Congress Passed the Neutriality Acts
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Japan Invaded Manchuria
When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident -
Cash and Carry
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Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany
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FDR began his Good Neighbor Policy
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Holocaust Began
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Italy invaded Ethopia
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Japan invaded China
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European appeasment of Hitler began
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Kristallnacht
A series of coordinated attacks against Jews through Germany and parts of Germany -
Manhattan Project
Research and development project that produced atomic bombs. -
Germany and Russia signed a nonaggression pact
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Germany began the blitzkreig into Poland
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Battle of Atlantic
Was a long continious military campaign, -
Tuskegee Airmen
African-American pilots that fought. -
Battle of Britain
Name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
The Tripartite Pact was signed
Signed in Berlin, Germany. -
Four Freedoms
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. -
Lend Lease Act
Was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945. -
Double V
Tool to propose two changes - Let African Americans fight in the war and also for them to be equal in society. -
Atlantic Charter
Was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. -
OPA Created
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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Japanese put in internment camps in the U.S.
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Nazis developed the Final Solution
Was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe -
Bataan Death March
Was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
Doolittle Raids
Was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. -
WAAC Formed
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy (USN), under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Major battle in World War II, where the Nazis were against the Soviet Union for the control of the city of Stalingrad -
Operation Torch
Was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. -
Casablanca Conference
A plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II -
Development of Rosie the Riveter
The legacy of the United States home front during World War II, including the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards, the Victory ship Red Oak Victory, a tank factory, housing developments and other facilities built to support America's entry into World War II. In particular, the role of women and African-Americans in war industries is explored and honored. -
Navaho Code Talkers used
People who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. -
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
The legislation was hurriedly created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significantly lowered due to high wartime inflation, struck for a $2-a-day wage increase. -
Tehran Conference
Was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
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D-Day
Invasion of Normandy, -
MacArthur "returned" to the Phillipines
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Battle of Bulge
Major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
Was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire -
V-E Day
Victory of Europe Day, marks the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Battle of Okinawa
Was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. -
FDR Died
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Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day, is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. September 2nd (US) -
Nuremberg Trials
Series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany
