World War Two

  • Japan opens for trade

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    Sino-Japanese War

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    Russo-Japanese War

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Washington Naval Treaty

  • Mein Kampf is published

  • Charles Lindbergh flies over the Atlantic

  • The Manchurian Inccident

  • Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany

  • FDR is elected president

  • Neutrality Acts are passed

  • Occupation of the Rhineland

  • The China Incident

  • The Rape of Nanking

  • Anschluss

  • Hitler takes Czechoslovakia

  • Nazi/Soviet Negotiation Pact

  • Germany invades Poland

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    Winter War

  • Battle of Raate Road

  • Air raid destroyed London

  • Germany invades France

  • Churchill is made Prime Minister

  • Operation Dynamo

  • "Miracle of Dunkirk"

  • France armistice with Germany

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    Battle of Britain

  • William Fiske III dies in combat

  • Tripartite Pact is signed

  • Lend-Lease is esablished

  • America places oil embargo on Japan

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    Siege of Leningrad

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

  • US declares war on Japan

  • Hitler declares war on the US

  • Commander Cunningham surrenders at Wake Island

  • Wannsee Conference

  • FDR signs Executive Order 9066

  • Japan takes control of the Philippines

  • The Bataan Death March

  • The Doolittle Raid

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    The Battle of the Coral Sea

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    Battle of Midway

  • Attack at Dieppe

  • Battle of Tenaru

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    Stalingrad

  • Battle of Edson's Ridge

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    Operation Torch

  • Operation Uranus

  • Operation Mars

  • General Paulus surrenders

  • Victory at Guadalcanal

  • Operation Zitadelle in Kursk

  • Operation Husky

  • All day tank battle at Kursk

  • End of Salamaua Campaign

  • Feuhrur Directive No. 51

  • Tarawas Campaign siezes Betio

  • Tehran Conference in Iran

  • Allied victory at the Battle of Kwajalein

  • Operation Overlord

  • Battle of the Philippine Sea

  • Battle of Saipan ends

  • Von Stauffenberg assassination attempt on Hitler

  • Liberation of Paris

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    Operation Market Garden

  • The Battle of Leyte Gulf

  • The Battle off Samar

  • Battle of Peleiu ends

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    Battle of the Bulge

  • Huge amphibious landing at the Lingayen Gulf

  • Raid on Cabanatuan POW camp

  • Yalta Conference

  • Landing on Iwo Jima

  • Liberation of Manila

  • Bombing of Tokyo

  • Period: to

    Okinawa

  • The War is Over!

  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders

  • Seige of Bastogne

  • The National Security Act

  • The Marshall Plan