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Great Depression Begins
This is the day that the stock market crashed. Since the stock market was the center of the market and nearly everyone had money put into it. The great depression caused people to lose everything. -
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World War II
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Japan Conquers Manchuria in Northern China
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Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
He took over the constitution and government. He then called himself fuhrer or “the Leader” and led the country as a dictator and fascist -
Roosevelt was elected President
This is the day that he entered the office and could finally make laws and be in control. As well as he got to work immediately and he brought into rule the new deal. -
Nuremberg Laws
Anti-sematic laws that affect Jews and other races and progressively made their lives harder as time passed. -
Hitler and Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis
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Japan Invades China
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Germany invades Austria
Most of the citizens were german speaking so they taught they woudl be accepted and not taken over but instead considered friends. -
Britain's appeasement of Germany
The name of the appeasement was the Munich Agreement the deal was that germany would stop going after territotories if they got control of Sudetenland. -
Kristallnacht
a wave of violent Anti-Jews took place. This was a night of very violent actions done against jews and it was the first thing in germany that was actual violence not just another law or limit to the Jews. -
Germany and Soviet Union have a nonaggression pact
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Germany Invades Poland
Also known as Blitzkrieg or "the lighting war" which used both speed and suprise in the troops, tanks and planes. As well as the Germans defeated Poland in less then a month. -
Japan joins the Axis Powers
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Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belguim, 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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Lend-Lease Act
in 1941 congress approved the lend lease act which had been supported by Roosevelt. The act made it so that teh United States could could lend resources for the war too the Allies to help in the war effort. -
Tuskegee Airman
they were a famous segregated unit of African-American pilots. -
the Final Solution
The Nazis created concentration camps to monitor the victims population and eventually send them to camps to do labor for the Nazis. however it di not end till 1945 -
germany invades the Soviet Union
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Pearl Harbor
on this day japan came and bombed the pearl harbor and it got the united states to finally join the war. the attack was a complete suprise and it killed 2,400 americans both servicemen and civilians. -
Bataan Death March
the march that the american and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to take. It was a 63 mile trip with over 72,000 prisiners in horrible conditions and with harsh treatments. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie was a symbol for women hta worked hard and was strong in a factory. -
Japanese-American Incarceratoin
the removeal of Japansese Americans into camps. More then 110,000 men, women, and Japanese childern were taken from their homes with no possesions and away from their jobs. Even though 2/3 of these Japanese-Americans were Nesei. This all started in 1942 but did not end til 1946 and it started because we had a fear of the Japanese after they bombed pearl harbor. -
Manhattan Project
this was the US governments secret project where they made the atomic bomb that we would later drop on Japan. -
Battle at Midway
thie was an United States victory over Japanese that proved to be a turning point for the war. -
British forces stop Germanys advance at El Alamein
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German Forces Surrender at Stalingrad
in the Soviet city of Stalingrad there was a battle that lasted for months germany finally surrendered after at least 5 months of battle. -
Guadalcanal
the first US land victory over Japan.the fighting lasted six months. However in febuary 1943 we finally won the battle after six harsh months of fighting. -
D-Day
allied invasion of France on this day more then 150,000 Allied soldiers crossed the crossed the channel into norhtern France. -
Battle of the Bulge
final german assualt in Ardennes region of Belguim and Luxembourg. there were 120,000 german deaths, adn 80,000 american deaths -
Yalta Confrence
the confrence were teh allies planned the post war world. the big three where there being Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchhill -
Iwo Jima
this is one of the islands that Americans used to get closer to Japans main land by island hopping they invaded the island in febuary 1945 and by the end of febuary thee flag was planted in the Iwo Jima soil. -
Okinawa
this was the island they went to after Iwo JIma and invaded from japan in their island hopping idea in late april. -
roosevelt dies
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truman becomes president
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formation of the United Nations
50 nations meet in San Francisco to disscus a new peacekeeping organization to replace the weak and ineffective League of Nations. -
Allied forces advance on Berlin, Germany surrenders
this is the day that ended World War II because germany surrendered. -
Formation of the United states
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. Unlike the League of Nations, the United States is a member of the United Nations -
Potsdam Confrence
allies held the Potsdam Confrence to plan teh war's end. Decision was made to put Nazi was criminals on trial -
Atomic Bomb Drops on HIroshima and Nagasaki
this is the day that the Americans dropped an atomic bomb because JApan would not surrender. Americans are still the only ones to have ever dropped an atomic bomb in the world. -
Japanesse Officials sign an offcial letter of surredner to the U.S.S Missouri, ending world war II
this is the day that the world war was over everywar not only Europe but hte pacific as well. -
Nuremberg Trials
thi sis the day that the trial started, there was 24 officials including some of HItler's top men. Hermann Goering- creator and head of Gestapo (secret police). charged with crimes against humanity, 19 people were found guilty, and 12 sentenced to death. People are responsible for their actions, even in wartime. however the very top men (hitler) all go suicide. -
Marshall Plan
congress approved Secretary of State George Marshall's plan to help boost European economies. the United States gave more then $13 billion to help the nations of Europe get back on their feet.
