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Treaty of Versailles
End of WWI -
Rise of National Socialist German Worker's
Nazi Party -
Stock Market Crash
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The Great Depression
1929-1939 -
Hitler appointed Reich Chancellor of Nazis
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Hitler names himself Fuhrer
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Neutrality Act of 1935
Illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war -
Kristallnacht
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Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
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Neutrality Act of 1939
Permitted sale of weapons on cash and carry basis -
Lend Lease Act
Allowed US to lend/lease arms to countries vital to US defense -
Pearl Harbor
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Executive Order 9066 Signed
Signed by Roosevelt allows war dept to remove people as needed from military zones -
Midway
Turning Point in the war in the Pacific. US Navy defeats Japs -
Battle of Stalingrad
08/23/1942 - 2/02/1943. Turning point in WWII in Europe. -
D Day
Allied invasion at Normandy France -
Battle of the Bulge
Ardennes Offensive was last major Nazi Offensive -
Korematsu v United States
Supreme Court says Executive Order 9066 is constitutional and rights of Japanese Americans can be restricted in circumstances of emergency and peril -
Nuremberg Trials
1945-1949 -
VE Day
Victory in Europe -
Bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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VJ Day
Victory in Japan -
Post War Power Balance
Between US and Soviet Union