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U.S Stock Market Crash
More infoInstallment plans and buying items with credit cards became very popular. This encouraged people to buy more than they could afford, and putting them into dept. Banks would loan people money to buy stocks with little money put down.Since ordinary people were able to buy stock, the prices rose.
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Japan Invades Manchuria
More informationJapan was becoming very crowded and their economy was affected by the great depression.Manchuria offered nearly 200,000 square kil, and Japan thought that would solve the overpopulation problem and they could offer them raw materials
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Hitler becomes Germany's Chancellor
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Hitler took the reins of a 14 year old German democratic republic which had long outlived its usefulness. People were without jobs,food,afraid, and desperate for relief
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Japan withdrawls from the League of Nations
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Japan withdrew from the League of nations after the assembly had adopted an agreement blaming Japan for the Invasion of Manchuria. Their formal recognition stated “We are not coming back,”
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Nazi's reach a political majority in Germany
More infoGermany was a democracy, they had fair elections and their right to vote was not abused, and there were many political parties to vote for. After the Reichstag building burned down Hitler declared it was a signal for a communist takeover. He convinced President Hindenburg to give him emergency powers.Hitler could ban on the communists and socialists taking part in an election
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First Anti-Semitic Law is passed in Germany
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Persecution of Jews represented a central tenet of Nazi ideology. Wave of legislation focused largely on limiting participation of Jews in German public life. Employees were to be excluded from state service and jews were excluded from organizations.
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Mussolini takes over Italy's Government
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His public posturing an boasts did not guarantee loyalty in Italy. It was important for him to eastablish a relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed prime minister, and his government contained a mixture of men with different political beliefs.
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The night of the long knives (Rohm Purge)
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Hitler used the tactic divide and rule and encouraged Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Ernst Rohm to compete for senior positions. Rohm had the power to remove him and he was drawing up a list of people he wanted to kill. This was known as the purge and it was kept secret till Hitler announced it and gave it the name.
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Hitler openly announces to his cabinet he will defy the Treaty of Versailles
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Hitler convened a Cabnit meeting and also members of the Army's General staff. The press was told the Fuhrer decided Germany was going to reintroduce military conscription and build a new army of 36 divisions,totaling 550,000 men.
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Creation of the Nuremberg Laws
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Nazi gov. passed 2 new racial laws. They took German citizenship away from Jews and outlawed marriage between jews and non-Jews. The laws defined Jewishness by race rather than religion.
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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Italy began to pressure Ethiopia.Border clash at Wal-Wal brought the struggle for influence to world attention. Italian troops movedon Oct.3 and captured the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.
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Hitler Militarizes the Rhineland
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Hitler militarized the German army and the League only issued a mild condemnation. It gave Hitler the courage to take greater risks,like moving into the Rhineland
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Rape of Nanking
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After the clash, Japan launched an assult on the city. The city soon fell and the Chinese army soon retreated to Nanking. Fleeing residents were shot or bayonested. Anyone suspected of being in the Chinese army had their hands tied and were led into a mass killing field. Thousands were buried alive and
thousands of women were raped.
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Germany Annexes Austria
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Germany wanted to sread the influence of the Nazi party into Austria. They were secretly fundig the Austrian Nazi organization through the German foreign office. It was so influential that Austria's chancellor banned all political parties except the ruling Christian social party.
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Munich Conference
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Hitler told his generals that he wanted to smash Czech by military action in the near future. Chamberlain had gone to Germany twice in Sept. to discuss the situation with him he then had asked for the Czech ambassador to come to Munich as an adviser but he was not allowed in the same froom as Hitler. At Munich Hitler gain the domination of Central
Europe and the German territory in Czechoslovakia.
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Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia
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In 1931, they created the Sudeten Germans Peoples Party led by Konrad Henlein. Its pressing demand wasSudetenland to be put under Germany control. The Czech did not agree. They wondered if the area handed over would lead to natioalites in Czechoslovakia wanting independence. The Sudetenland also contained many valuable resources
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Kristallnacht
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the after math some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. After Kristallnacht, conditions grew increasingly worse.Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called “Final Solution” and murdered 6 million European Jews
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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Nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.It divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. the two countries agreed not to attack each other, not to support any third power that might attack the other party to the pact; to remain in consultation with each other,to solve all differences between the two by negotiation or arbitration.
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Nazi invasion of Poland
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France Surrenders
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With the Germans advancing, the French retreated and were fleeing for their lives. The French abandoned Paris and this allowed the Germans to enter without resistance. French continue to fight untill Bordeaux and Marshall Petain anoounces that the French will stop fighting. -
Evacuation of Dunkirk
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It was Germanys invasion of the Low countries and northern France. The attacked the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. German troops were crossing the canal defense line close to Dunkirk. The british governemnt. decided to evacuate by sea from Dunkirk. -
Battle of Britain
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Hitler's forces were preparing for an invasion of Britain code-named "Operation Sea Lion." At first, they bombed only military and industrial targets. But after the Royal Air Force hit Berlin with retaliatory strikes in September, the Germans began bombing British civilian centers. The British defenses held, and Hitler quietly canceled Operation Sea Lion in October -
The tripartite Pact
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Originally signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan. It would call upon all three nations to unite against any aggressor who had violated the sovereignty of any of the three nations, not including nations that were already engaged in war with any of the three nations. It was was signed with the intention to force the United States to remain isolationist and out of WW2 -
Lend Lease Act
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack destroyed much of the United States' fleet, especially the battleships. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Creation of the United Nations
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Bataan Death March
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It was the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese.It began with 72,000* prisoners from the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. The prisoners were to be marched 55 miles from Mariveles -
Doolittle Raid
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Lt.Colonel James H. Doolittle presented the plan that B-25 bombers, normaly land based bombers, would be transported by an aircraft carrier that was within striking distance of the Japanses mainland. They also launched to attack a number of cities. -
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Operation Barbarossa
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Germans were hoping to take over the Moscow.Russians believe that Moscow shouldn’t be ever surrender to the enemy, because loosing Moscow can mean loosing of all the country.The battles were becoming more violent and fierce as the Nazis approached Moscow. The Russian Winter saved the Russian people from being defeated right in the first year of the war,lasted 5 more years. -
Battle of Stalingrad
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A major attack on the part of the city around the Tractor Factory was launched by the Germans.Soviet forces continued their tactics of ‘hugging the enemy, and keeping themselves as clost as possible to German troops- making the use of heavy weapons and dive bombings as hard as possible.
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Operation Torch-
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Also known as the Algeria -Morocco military cmpaign was the Allies plan of the invasion of North Africa. British and American forces, commanded by the American general, Dwight D. Eisenhower carried out the campaign. -
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Operation Overlord and D-Day
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Operation Overlad was the allied invasion of Normandy. The commander was Eisenhower. They planed to have soldiers and equipment land in big amounts. No army had ever had to deal with this before. -
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The Nuremberg Trials-
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The Nuremberg trials were a series of miltary tribunals,or military courts, that were held by the Allied forces. Twelve trials took place involing more than a hundred defendants.
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Hitler’s Suicide-May 4th 1945
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Hitler had his last staff confernece tell his commanders that the Russians were no a few blocks away. He then began to make preparations to kill himself and his wife Eva after he posined his dog and her pups. After 3 p.m they said their final goodbyes and retreated to their bunker. They bit into cyanide and Hitler shot himself.
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V-E Day-8 May 1945
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V-E day marks the acceptance by the allies of the Nazis surrender in WWII.After Hitler commidetted suicide slowly the Axis powers began to fall. The war offficially ended with the siging of the unconditional surrender document.
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-August 6, 1945
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During the final stages of WWII, the U.S dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just five days after that Japan surrendered to the U.S. Between the two bombings they killed at least 129,000 people.
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The Japanese War Crime Trials-
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They occurred in many Asain and Pacific countries that were occupied by Japan. Some incidents have been described as an Asian Holocaust.
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The beginning of the Cold War-1947
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Was the struggle for power after WWII until 1989 between the western powers and the communists. It came to an end with the opening of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the communist party dictatorship in eastern Europe and imigration in Germany. -
How did the 3rd reich affect the world as we know today
After the 3rd reich, now people are cautious of who the leader will be. We have fair elections and everyone has the right to vote. We also make sure not to discriminate against any religion or beliefs and we treat everyone the same
