-
Stalin
Stalin rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union. -
Period: to
Hitler's Control
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party controlled the country through dictatorship. -
Neutrality Act of 1939
This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” -
The Anschluss
Annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany -
Period: to
World War II
Everyone went to war -
Invasion of Poland
Germans raided Warsaw, Poland. In retaliation Britain and France declared war on Germany. -
Fall of France
German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. Germany trying to expand its territory. -
Battle of Britain
A military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. Testing how tough german technology is. -
Period: to
The Holocaust
A genocide manned by Nazi's and there collaborators to exterminate the Jewish population. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombed pearl harbor and destroyed many ship and killed some. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' formal entry into World War II. Attack meant to weaken the U.S. navy by a ton. -
Pearl Harbor Reasoning
Japan supposedly went to warm based on trade between them and the U.S. over petroleum. -
Bataan Death March
U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway Island
decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place between, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. Retaliation to the bombing of pearl harbor. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Largest confrontation of World War II, in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Dropping the Atomic Bomb
To drop the bombs the U.S. had to get consent from the United Kingdom according to the Quebec Agreement which was found in -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Atomic Bomb
Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in hopes to bring about Japans surrender in WWII -
Yalta Conference
major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. -
V-E Day
The formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
