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Japan Invades Manchuria
The Japanese militarists launched a suprise attack and seized control of the Chinese province of Manchuria. within several mounths the Japanese troops controlled the entire province. -
Nazi Party becomes the most powerful in Germany
Many men who were out of work joined Hitler's private army, the storm troopers, they turned into hitlers last hope. -
HItler becomes dictator and first conctration camps
The first conctration camp for the jewish was onpned at Oranienburg. Hitler becomes the dictator of Germany -
Nurmberg Laws
Nurmberg Laws instituted against Jews in Germany. THe jews were stripeed of there german citizenship, jobs, and property. Jews had to wear a yellow star so the germans could identify them. -
Italian Troops Invade Ethopia
Mussolini was building a new Roman empire and his first target was Ethopia. BY the fall of 1935 10,000 italian solders stood ready to attack -
Spanish Civil War Begins
An army of spanish officers led by Franco rebelled against the spanish republic. Revolts broke out all over spain, than the spanish civil war started. -
German and Italy and Japan form axis
Americans were joltedby the news that Germany, Italy, and Japan had signed a mutual defence tready. These 3 nations became kniw as the Axis Power -
Japan invades China
When Japan launched an attack on china, Roosevelt fpund a way around the NeutralityActs. Because japan had not formaly decared war against china. -
The NIght of Broken Glass
Kristallnacht, the Nazis destroyed the property, and made over 20,000 arests of the jewish comunity. Around 100 were killed and many more injured. The broken glass fro, the windows were all over the streets hence how the night got its name. -
Germany sezies Czechoslovakia
German troops pored in of what was left of Czechoslovakia st nightfall hitler gloated "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist" -
The Begening of World War II
Germany invaded poland. Brittan and France declare war on Germany. that starting world war 2 -
France Surrenders
France surrenders from the brittissh having 500,00 rifiles and 80,000 michine guns.Than the Axis Powers joined -
Lend and Lease Act
Roosevelt signed the act. Britian had no more cash to spend in the arsenalof democray. Under this plan the president would lend or lease arms to any country country whose defence was vital to the united states -
Nazis began the mass murder of the jews
THe germans build 6 death camps in poland. one had as amny as 7 gas chambers and about 12,000 were killed a day. -
African American Labor
A. Phillip Randolph was the african american labor leader. who strongly belived in giving blacks the right to work and fight for there country. -
The battle of Stalingrad
The bitter cold had stopped the germans from fighting. when the spring came the germans were ready to roll. the germans whiped out Stalingrad, which was a major industral center on the volga river -
Pear Harbor
The japanese bomed pear harbor. there was more than 180 war planes. it had killed 2,403and left 1,178 wounded. -
Japanese Advances
in the first 6 mounths after pearl harbor. The jappanese conqured an empire that dwarfed hitlers 3rd reich. -
The battle of the Atlantic
Americans provided easy targets for the germans to attack. IN the first 4 mounths they sank 87 ships. than later destroyed all681 ships. -
Automobile
News papers reported that it was the end of personal automable making. this showed that the war was going to affect more than one aspect in americans lives. -
battle of the coral sea
the allies suceedeed to stop the jappanese drive tward australia in the 5 day battle. the fighting in this bsttle was done by all planes. and not a sigle shot was fired bysurface ships -
Women Auxiliary Army Corps
This gave women the chance to serve in noncombat possition. this gave women a salary but not all the benfits. -
The battle of Midway
The allies succeed in stopping the japanese. The planes than found the japanese fleet. than the americans sent torpedo plains. turning point of the pacific war -
Labor Contibutions
When th ewar begun, dispite the draft nearly 18 milllion workers were laboring in war industries, 3 times as more as in 1941 -
Economic gains
The war years were good ones for the people working. As defence industries boomed, unemployment fell to a low of 1.2 percent -
Civil RIghts Protest
african americans made some progress on the home front. the percentage of them workimg rose from 16% to 30%. they also started moving into cities. -
D-Day
D day was the first day of the invasion. shortly after midnight 3 dividiond parshuted down avross german lines. -
The Yalta Conferance
As the alies pushed twards victory. the big 3 they were called toasted the defeat of germany than now seemed certian -
The battle of Okinawa
U.S. marines invaded Okinawa. the japanese unleashed more than 1,900 attacks. sinking more than 30 ships damaging 300 ships and killing about 5,000 seamen -
Roosevelt's death
He did not live to see V-E day. He died of a stroke while geting a portrid done
