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Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
Mussolini was replaced as Prime Minister and served as the head of the Italian Social Republic until his execution by Italian partisans in 1945. -
Joseph Stalin
Became the leader of the USSR. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
The Japanese army attacked chinese troops as an attempt to try to gain control over the whole province. -
Holocaust Began
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. -
Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany
This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check” -
FDR began his Good Neighbor Policy
the goal was to restore positive relations with Latin American nations -
Congress passed the Neutrality Acts
This act was to prevent the U.S. from joining wars -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige. -
Japan invaded China
The Japanese invaded China proper, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
European appeasement of Hitler began
This policy of appeasement of Hitler’s demands has been much criticized as paving the road to World War II. -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. -
Germany and Russia signed a nonagression pact
The arrangement allowed Hitler to launch his forces against Poland knowing that he would not suffer from Russian interference. -
Germany began the blitzkrieg into Poland
In Poland, German forces employed a military strategy known as the blitzkrieg, or "lightning war," armored divisions smashed through enemy lines and isolated segments of the enemy. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The battle pitted Allied merchant and supply ships, along with their escorts, against German submarines, aircraft, and surface raiders. -
Cash and Carry
Cash and Carry amendment maintained U.S. neutrality, but allowed munitions sales to participants of World War II. -
Churchill became the Prime Minister of Great Britain
He formed an all-party coalition and quickly won the popular support of Britons. -
Battle of Britain
This was the intense air battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain's airspace -
The Tripartite Pact was signed
This established the axis power of world war II. -
Four Freedoms
The first is freedom of speech and expression
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way
The third is freedom from want
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Lend Lease Act
An Act Further to Promote the Defense of the United States. -
Development of Rosie the Riveter
Star of a government campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for the munitions industry. -
Tuskegee Airment
The Tuskegee airmen were the first black servicemen to serve as military aviators in the U.S. armed forces, flying with distinction during World War II. -
Atlatic Charter
The Atlantic Charter provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims. -
OPA Created
The function of this was to control prices and rents after the outbreak of WWII. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
Nazis developed the Final Solution
They used the term “Final Solution” to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people. -
Japanese put in internment camps in the U.S.
The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. -
Double V
A motivational tool used to propose two changes - one was to allow African Americans to fight in the war, and the other was to allow African Americans to be equal in society. -
Bataan Death March
The forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II. -
Doolittle Raids
This was the first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese home islands during WWII. -
Manhattan Project
This was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
WAAC Formed
For the purpose of making available to the national defense the knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation. -
Battle of Midway
The Japanese had planned to capture Midway to use as an advance base, as well as to entrap and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet. -
Battle of Stalingrad
This battle bled the German army dry in Russia and after this defeat, the Germany Army was in full retreat. -
Operation Torch
Was the first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together. -
Casablanca Conference
Roosevelt and Churchill focused on coordinating Allied military strategy against the Axis powers over the course of the coming year. -
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
It gave the president the power to seize and operate privately owned industrial war plants -
Tehran Conference
the three leaders, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan and made a number of important decisions concerning the post World War II era. -
D-Day
The allies invade western Europein the largest amphibious attck in history. -
MacArthur "returned" to the Philippines
He returned to the islands with an enormous invasion force and the largest assemblage of naval vessels in the history of mankind. -
Battle of the Bulge
Von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise. -
Yalta Conference
The second wartime meeting, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima. -
Battle of Okinawa
The U.S. 10th Army overcomes the last major pockets of Japanese resistance on Okinawa Island, ending one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. -
FDR Died
Passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
V-E Day
Marked the allied victory of Europe. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
V-J Day
The day Japan Surrendered unconditionally to the allies, ending world war II. -
Navaho Code Talkers used
Philip Johnsto came up with the idea of using a code based on the Navajo language. -
Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice
