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Great depression
The market crashed that left millions without jobs. This is called to be the beginning of WW2 -
Britains appeasement of Germany
I couldnt find anything about this. -
Japan conquers Manchuria in Northern China
Japs attact chinas troops in Manchuria -
Roosevlt first elected president
This is when FDR came to office. He later died of cerebral hemorrhage. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Hitler is voted to become the chancellor. Now Hitler has all power. Later he makes the SS and they go around killing jews in camps. -
Nuremberg Laws
A whole group of ministers discussed the ecnomic effects of party action against jews. -
Hitler and Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis
Hitler finds a ally in Benito Mussolini -
Germany invades Austria
Germany invades Austria, Hitler commands them too. -
Kristallnacht
9-10. A series of corordinated attacts against jews though out Nazi Germany. -
Germany and Soviet Union have a nonaggression pact
They met up and signed a pact -
Germany invades denmark
Invaded them by land, sea, and air. -
Japan joins the Axis Powers
Signed in Germany it estaslished the axis powers of WW2 -
Tuskgee Airmen
AF were aloud to fly in the war -
lend lease act
This set up a system that would allow the united states to lend or lease war supplys to any nation -
Germany invades Soviet Union
Codename: operation barbirossa, Largest germany military opertion of WW2 -
Germany air force
ended may 21 1941. More than 100 tons of explosives were dropped. 37 weeks long. Also known as the blitz -
Pearl Harbor
The japs went in and bombed pearl harbor. Theykilled many people and broke a lot of boats and airplanes -
Rosie the riveter
Girls could work on airplanes and boats in WW2 -
Jap americans incarceration
The WW2 interment in war relocation camps of about 110000 people of jap heritage who lived in pacific coast of the US -
Bataan death march
People walked to death -
Battle of midway
4-7
distoryed japan navel strength when america destoryed 4 of its air craft carryers -
British forces stop the Germany advance at El Alamein
1-27.
Was a battle of the western deserts fought on the northen coast of egypt between the axic forces -
Guadalcanal
The landing was unopposed took 6 mouths to defeat the japs -
Manhattan Project
To make the biggest atomic bomb possible to drop on the Japs -
German forces surrender at Stalingrad
They surrender while fighting Soviet Union -
Final Solution
Nazis began to make gettos and send the jews off to camps to work and then die. They kiled the kids first and let all the middle aged people to work. -
Germany invades poland
Germany went in to invade poland -
DDay
US went in on shore. In 4 differnt spots. US won. -
Battle of the bulge
Hitler told the only maor german counter offensive of the war in NW Europe -
Yalta
4-11
When FDR, Winstron chruchill, and Joseph Stalin -
Iwo Kima
US fought Japs empire for Iwo jima and US won -
Okinawa
ended: june 22 1945.
82 days long. American vs. Japs -
FRD dies
FRD dies and truman becomes new president. -
Formation of United Nations
April 25 1945-50 nations met in San Francisco to discuss new peacekeeping organizations to replace the weak and ineffective League of Nations
June 26-1945- 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 back on the world again
Unlike the League of Nations the United States is a member of the united states -
Allied Forces advance on Berlin, Germany surrenders
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Atomic bomb dropped on Japs
6-9
2 bombs were dropped. In all they killed about 110000 people.
after they dropped both of them japs surrenderd. -
Japan invades China
They fought beacuse they both had a rage on eachother, also they were fighting for some land. -
Jap officials sign an offical letter to surrender on the USS, Missouri, end of WW2
the end -
Numberg Trials
November 20 1945-october 1 1946
24 defendants, most were Hitler’s top officials
Hermann goring- creator and head of gestapo
Charged with crimes against humanity
19 found guilty 12 sentenced to death
People are responsible for their actions even in wartime. -
Marshall Plan
1948
Congress approved secretary of state George Marshall plan to help boost European economies
The US gave more than 13 billion to help the nations of Europe get back on their feet.
