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Attack of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Nuremberg Laws
These laws were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced in 1935 by Reichstag. These laws included the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish household. -
Alliance with Italy and Germany
The Axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces. The Axis powers agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not completely coordinate their activity. -
Invasion of Poland
Hitler planned a surprise attack which took place at dawn. German warplanes invaded Polish airspace, raining bombs and terror on the poles. -
Soviet Union invaded E. Poland
After a secret agreement with Hitler, Stalin sent Soviet troops to occupy Poland. This was in the Eastern part of the country. Stalin then began annexing areas including Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. -
France surrenders
The Germans took control of the northern part of the country. They left the southern half to be led by Marshall Henri (the prime minister). -
Lend Lease Act
The President now could lease or lend arms to other countries vital to the US. This was advantageous to both the US and its allies, proving much needed supplies to its allies without them being in the actual war. -
Battle of Britain
Hitler finally decided to call off attacks on this day. He was stunned by Britain's resistance.He then focused his attacks on Eastern Europe and the Med. -
German invasion of Soviet Union
On this morning German tanks and aircrafts announced the beginning of the Blitzkrieg invasion. The Soviets were not prepared for this attack. The operation was called Barbarossa by Hitler. -
Atlantic Charter
Roosevelt and Churchill met off Newfoundland. It was a joint declaration that upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own gov. -
Pear Harbor
This was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Japanese internment (in US)
Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear drove the U.S. to place over 127,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII. Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II because they were of Japanese ancestry. -
Battle of Midway
This was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between June 3rd and 7th, 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. -
D-Day
The invasion of Normandy was the greatest land and sea attack in history. It was code-named Operation Overlord. More than 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. -
German surrender
On this day General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich from the German military. The US and other Allied powers celebrated V-E Day. This marked the end of the war. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Hiroshima is best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. The bombing, combined with the bombing of Hiroshima, killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. -
Japanese Surrender
The surrender was announced by Imperial Japan on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
