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Japan invaded Manchuria
The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Japan invaded China
A military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1941. -
Holocaust began
The mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories. -
FDR began his Good Neighbor Policy
The foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. -
Adolf Hitler
Became the leader of Germany. -
Congress passed the Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Italy invaded Ethopia
The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige, which was wounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa in the nineteenth century, which saved Ethiopia from Italian colonisation. -
European appeasement of Hitler began
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, participated in many aggressive actions which violated the Treaty of Versailles. France and Great Britain, in an attempt to maintain peace in Europe so soon after The Great War, gave in to many of Germany’s demands and actions. -
Kristallnacht
A pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. -
Germany and Russia signed a nonaggression pact
This pact concluded a few days before the beginning of World War II and divided eastern Europe into Gernan and Soviet spheres of infkuence. -
Germany began the blitzkerg into Poland
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The longest continuous military campaign[4][5] in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. -
Cash and Carry
A policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a special session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939. -
Churchill became the Prime Minister of Great Britian
He was called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter's resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons. -
Battle pf Britain
The name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
The Tripartite Pact was signed
This pact established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Four Freedoms
Goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Lend Lease Act
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. -
Joesph Stalin
Became the leader of the USSR. -
Atlantic Charter
A pivotal policy statement issued in August 1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. -
OPA created
The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
Japenese attack on Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
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. -
Japenese put in interment camps in the U.S.
The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally as a geographic matter: all who lived on the West Coast were interned, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were interned. -
Nazis developed the Final Solution
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
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
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
The women's branch of the United States Army. -
Battle pf Midway
One of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Navaho Code Talkers used
The program proved successful and soon the U.S. Marine Corps authorized unlimited recruiting for the Navajo code talkers program. -
Manhattan Project
A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
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
Held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Development of Rosie the Riveter
A cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. -
Tuskgee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. -
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
An American law passed on June 25, 1943, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto. -
Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
An Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. -
Tehran Conference
It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom). -
D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
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
A 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
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
A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Battle of Okinawa
Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. -
FDR died
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 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
The public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. -
V-J Day
Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, and effectively ending World War II. -
Nuremberg Trials
A 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.
