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Rosie the Riveter
a propaganda character of a poor riveter women taking her husband’s old job building planes. She was very poor and she was raising children alone. many women at this time were just like Rosie -
British forces stop the German advance at El Alamein
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Great Depresion begins
the stock market crashed. everybody’s money was put into the stock market and when it crashed everybody lost their money -
Germany & Soviet Union have a nonaggression pact
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Tuskegee Airmen
Africans American flights, after the war they were honored. After the war they got awards from the French, and they African Americans were more honored and respected. -
Japan conquers Manchuria in northern China
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Roosevelt first elected president
he lead us through the great depression which was the worst time in American history. He also lead us through the 2nd world war -
Nurenburg Laws
they started in 1933 and they were and anti-Semitism as a form of scientific racism -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of
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Britain’s appeasement of Germany
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Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France
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Japan invades China 1937
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o German air force (Luftwaffe) bombs London and other civilian targets in the Battle of Britain
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Kristallnacht
it was an outbreak against the Jews in Germany -
Germany invades Austria
they invaded Australia, because they wanted to isolate Austria from the US -
Germany invades Poland
They invaded Poland first. Doing this Poland had very little resources so they hardly made it through the war and couldn’t help the US out very much -
Hitler & Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis
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Japan joins the Axis Powers 1940
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Lend-Lease Act
in 1941 America send $500 billion dollars of supplies to help with the war effort -
The Nazis implement the “Final Solution"
Octuber 1 1941. The finaly solution was to kill off the jewish race. The took the week jews and killed them right away. They took the stronger Jews and worked them like slaves. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombed americans harbor and killed thoasands of Americans when they bombed big carrier ships -
Bataan Death March
april 9 1942 they made Japanese march to balanga the capital of bataan. Some of them were beteen and died. -
Manhattan Project
1942 it was a research development of an atomic bomb. They wanted to bomb Japan to end the war. -
Trials now called the nurenbug laws
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Chargeed with crimes against humanity
19 found guilty 12 senteced to death. People are responsible for their actions even In wartime -
President Roosevelt had urged Americans not to turn their back on the world again.
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Unlike the league of nation the united states is a member of the united nations.
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Battle of Midway
june 4th 1942. It was the most important naval battle of the of world war 2. The United States defeated Japan in a battle of the sky with there planes. -
Japanese-American incarceration
July 1st 1942, Americans. Separated the Japanese aericans because they thought they would be a threat because they had just been bombed on pearl harbor. -
German forces surrender at Stalingrad
August 23 1942. The allies and the soviet union fought over the control of Stalingrad. The allies won and Germany surrendered. -
Japanese officials sign an official letter of surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri, ending World War II
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Guadalcanal
August 7 1943 it was the first major offensive attack by the allies on the empire of Japan. -
Decision was made to put Nazi war criminals on trial
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24 defendents including some of Hitlers top officails
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D-Day
June 6 1944. The united states attacked France. Thousands of troops landed on the shore of France and they lost thousands of men but won the battle. -
Battle of the Bulge
16 December 1944. Germany tried to turn the tide of the war by attacking the allies after d-day. They tried to do this by surprise and cut them off in half. -
Yalta Conference
February 4 1945. It was a meeting to reestablish the league of nations. They did remake it but they made it have more power than the first. -
Iwo Jima
February 19, 1945. It was US bombing missions on Japan. -
Okinawa
april 1st 1945. It was the campaign of the US island hopping. They would attack 1 island then the next. -
nations met about LON
April 25 1945- 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
the Allies sent the troops into Berlin they won the battle. Germany then surrendered. it ended the whole war. -
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The US created Atomic bombs to nuke Germany. they nuked multiple German cities forcing the Germans to surreder -
Allies help the post dam conference to plan the wars end
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Hermann Goring- creator and head of Gestapo (secret police)
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United nations
o June 26 1945 all 50 nations ratified the charter creating a new interactions peacekeeping body known as the United Nations. -
roosevelt dies
Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes president -
Marshall plan
Congress approved secretary of the state George marshals plan to help boost European economics. The US gave more than $13 billion nations to help Europe get back on their feet.
