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The Great Depression Begins
- The Stock Market crashed on this day, leading the great depression to begin
- It didn't only affect America but also the rest of the world because of trade and jobs that the U.S. could no longer participate in
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World War II
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Tuskegee Airmen
This was a famous segregated unit of African American pilots. During the war the white officers wouldn't allow the black people who volenteered to be in the war to fight, because of the color of their skin. This caused it so that African Americans created their own seperate forces in order to fight in the war because white people wouldn't allow blacks and whites to fight together, even in a time like WWII. -
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Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was a character that symbolized women in manufacturing jobs. Before the war women were still not doing equal jobs as men, and were still thought of as people who had to prepare food and clean the house. In WWII all that changed. When the men went off to war there had to be someone making the fighting equipment and manufacturing the goods. This was the time when women stepped in and how they played their part in the war. -
Japan conquers Manchuria in northern China
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Roosevelt is Elected President
- He was elected the 32nd president of the United States
- He served 4 terms of presidency
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Hitler Became Chancellor of Germany
Before he was elected Hitler had already created the nazi's. By the time the elections rolled around they were the biggest partie which helped Hiter to be elected when the time came around. -
Nuremberg Laws Passed
- Laws made by Germany's Nazis
- They were laws that classifed people in racial groups
- They were against Jew's and anyone with Jewish ancestory
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Rome-Berlin Axis
The allience between Mussolini and Hitler, later joined by Japan -
Japan Invades China
Japan wanted to expand their territory in order to have more land, this caused them to invade China in hope of taking it over. -
Germany Invades Austria
There had been serveral years of previous pressure between the two coutnries. He wanted to expand into the "semi-german" area because he wanted to take over all of Germany and because he thought all Germany areas should be under one ruler. -
Britain’s appeasement of Germany
The two countries made a deal that Hitler would stop trying to take over places if he gained control of Sudetenland. Britain was warned that Hitler wouldn't stop with just Sudentenland, and they should have listened to the warning. -
Kristallnacht
This was a series of coordinate attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria. The attacks, at were extrememly violent, left the streets covered with broken glass. 91 Jews were killed and 30,000 were arreated and put into concentration camps. -
Germany and the Soviet Union Signed a Non-agression Pact
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Germany Invades Poland-blitzkrieg
Germany used their "light war" tactics for this attack. This is the event that begins the entire war and drags other countries into it because of allies. -
Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France
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German air force (Luftwaffe) bombs London and other civilian targets in the Battle of Britain
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Japan joins the Axis Powers
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The Lend-Lease Act
This act allowed the United States to lend or lease weapons and supplies to allied countries. it was approved by Roosevelt. -
The Nazis implement the “Final Solution"
The goal of the Nazi's was to get rid of all the Jews they could, as fast as they could. At first they were sending them to camps and having them work to death, but that process became too slow for them. After a bit of time working them to death the Nazi's think of the final solution. This is putting them straight into gas chambers and suffocating them to death in a simple process that was decrete and only took about 15 mintues. -
Germany Invades the Soviet Union
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
On this day Japan played a surprise attack on the U.S. They went up on the home front of Hawaii and bombed the Harbor. The U.S. was not expecting this at all and it caused many ships to be damaged and many people injured and killed as well. -
British forces stop the German advance at El Alamein
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Japanese-American incarceration
After the attack on Pearl Harbor Americans began thinking about Japanese peoeple differently. If they saw Japanese-Amercicans who had nothing to do with the attack, they would be rude to them and have hatred toward them because of their Japanese ancestory. Japanese were sent to camps where they were forced to work because American's no longer liked them and no longer thought they deserved to be treated like humans after the attack. -
Bataan Death March
More than 70,000 American and Filipino troops surrendered to the Japanese in the Philpeans. From there the Japanese marched the soldiers over 65 miles to camps. Along the way over 10,000prisoners died from shootings, beatings and starvation. This later became known as the Bataan Death March. -
Manhattan Project
This was a top secret government project to develope the atomic bomb. The scientists worked for over 3 years to create the weapon and make it successful. -
The Battle of Midway
This was a battle of U.S. victory over the Japanese at Midway Island. This battle was proven to be the turning point in the war. -
German forces surrender at Stalingrad
The battle here lasted for months. After many months of hard fighting Germany finally had to surrender. -
Guadalcanal
This was the first U.S. land victory over the Japanese. Later, the U.S. won the battle that they got this land from. -
D-Day
This was an allied invasion of France. This was the largest seaborn invasion in history, by the end of the month 850,000 allied troops had gone into France. -
Battle of the Bulge
This was a battle that occurred during the end of WWII. This was the bloodiest battle fought in by the U.S. during the war. The Allied forces beat Germany and won this battle. -
Yalta Conference
The coference where the Allies planned the post World war.
Allies: U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, china, Poland, Austria, Denmark, India
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Iwo Jima
At the near end of war the U.S. soldiers put an American flag at the top of Mt. Suribachi to symbolize the U.S. victory. -
Okinawa
In April the U.S. invaded Okinawa. It took a while for this island and Iwo Jima to be conqured and many people died in the process. -
Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes president
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Formation of the United Nations
50 nations met in San Francisco to discuss a new peacekeeping organization to replace the weak and ineffective League of Nations -
Allied forces advance on Berlin, Germany surrenders
At first in this battle the German forces are able to push back the Allies. As it continues the U.S. comes in and oushes back the German forces. Eventually Germany surrenders. -
The First Atomic Bomb is Dropped on Japan
American's drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki in Japan. This is the first atomic bomb used in war and catches everyone by surprise. Soon after the attack the Japanese surrendered and then war ended. -
Formation of the United Nations
All 50 nations ratified the charter, creating a new international peacekeeping body known as the United Nations.
- President Roosevelt had urged Americans not to turn their backs on the world again
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Potsdam Conference
- Allies held the Postdam Conference to plan the war's end -Decision was made to put Nazi war criminals on trial
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Japanese officials sign an official letter of surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri, ending World War II
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Nuremberg Trials
- 24 defendants, including some of Hitler's top officials
- Hermann Goering- creator and head of Gestapo (secret police)
- Charged with crimes against humanity
- 19 found guilty, 12 sentenced to death
- People are responsible for their actions, even in wartime The top Nazi people weren't part of the trials because they were already killed or committed suicide. Hitler had killed himself and all his children before the trial and his wife had killed herself as well.
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Marshall Plan
- Congress approved Secretary of State George Marshall's plan to help boost European economies
- The U.S. gave more than $13 billion to help the nations of Europe get back on their feet
