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Joseph Stalin became a leader of the USSR
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Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
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Japan invaded china
General Shigeru Honjō ordered that his forces quickly proceed to expand operations all along the South Manchurian Railway. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
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Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany
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FDR began his Good Neighbor policy
This was a foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. -
Congressed passed the Neutrality Acts
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Italy invaded Ethiopia
A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. -
European appeasement of Hitler began
political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict -
Kristallnacht
a pogrom (a series of coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany -
WAAC formed
British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. -
Germany and Russia signed a nonaggression pact
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Germany began the blitzkrieg into Poland
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Battle of the Atlantic
At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. -
Cash and Carry
This allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation -
Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain
On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. -
Battle of Britain
Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom -
The Tripartite Pact was signed
pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Four Freedoms
Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
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Lend Lease Act
This 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. -
OPA created
The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
Atlantic Charter
This was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world -
Double V
this was 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. -
Japanese put in internment camps in the U.S.
The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally as a geographic matter. -
Nazis developed the final solution
Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe -
Bataan Death March
Was the 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
This was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II -
Battle of Midway
The U.S. decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy -
Battle of Stalingrad
This was 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 (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
Casablanca Conference
This conference was to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Development of Rosie the Riveter
She was a fictional character who came to symbolize the millions of real women who filled America’s factories, munitions plants, and shipyards during World War II. -
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
The Act allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes that would interfere with war production, and prohibited unions from making contributions in federal elections. -
Tehran Cnference
strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
D-Day
These were landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. -
Navaho Code Talkers Used
These were people who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. -
Tuskegee Airmen
first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. -
MacArthur 'returned' to the Philippines
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Battle of the 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
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. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
This was 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
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V-E day
formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Holocaust began
This was 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 -
Manhattan Project
This was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
Atomic bombing on Hiroshima
conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. -
V-J Day
name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II -
Nuremberg Trials
series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II
