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Joseph Stalin
Became leader of the USSR -
Benito Mussolini
became the leader of Italy -
Japan Invaded Manchuria
Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria -
Adolf Hitler
Becomes leader of Germany -
FDR Began Good Neighbor Policy
Foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America -
Congress Passed Neutrality Acts
Response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
Fight between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire -
Euro appeasement of Hitler began
Diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict -
Japan invaded China
Military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan -
Kristallnacht
Pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria -
Tuskegee Airman
Group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II -
Germany and Russia
Signs nonaggression pact -
Battle of the Atlantic
Stopped U-boats and other warships of the Kriegsmarineand against the Royal Canadian Navy -
Cash and Carry
policy requested by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that allowed the sale of material to belligerents -
Germany began blitzkrieg into Poland
Dense concentration of armoured and motorized or mechanized infantry formations -
Battle of Britain
First major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces -
Tripartite Pact
Established the Axis Powers of World War II -
Four Freedoms
goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Lend Lease Act
program under which the United States supplied Great Britain -
Atlantic Charter
Policy defined the Allied goals for the post-war world -
OPA Created
Civil supply functions were transferred to the Office of Production Management -
Japanese attacks on Perl Harbor
Surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States -
Japanese put in internment camps in the U.S
Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States -
Nazis Developed the Final Solution
Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people -
Development of Rosie the Riveter
representing the American women who worked in factories -
Bataan Death March
Forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army -
Doolittle Raids
Air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island -
WAAC Formed
Women's branch of the United States Army -
Batle of Midway
Japanese sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific -
Double V
Letter was sent to the Pittsburgh Courier -
Manhattan Project
Produced the first atomic bombs during World War II -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Operation Torch
British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign -
Casablanca Conference
Plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II -
Smith–Connally Act
Created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significantly lowered due to high wartime inflation -
Tehran Conference
Strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
D-Day
Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation -
Battle of the Bulge
German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium -
Yalta Conference
Meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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 -
FDR Died
American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States -
Holocaust began
Genocide of approximately six million Jews -
V-E Day
Formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Navaho Code Talkers
People who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime -
Atomic bomb
Drops on Hiroshima -
V-J Day
Day on which Japan surrendered -
Nuremberg Trials
Series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II -
Churchill
Becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain -
MacArthur "returned" to the Phillippines
American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army
