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The Johnson Act
prohibited foreign nations in debt from marketing their bond issues in the United States. -
Japan invades China (begins WWII in the Pacific Theatre)
world War II began on July 7, 1937—not in Poland or at Pearl Harbor, but in China. On that date, outside of Beijing, Japanese and Chinese troops clashed, and within a few days, the local conflict had escalated to a full, though undeclared, war between China and Japan -
Invasion of Sudetenland and Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy -
The Neutrality Act of 1939
his Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” The ban on loans remained in effect, and American ships were barred from transporting goods to belligerent ports. -
Germany invades Poland
Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany -
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World War II
World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945. -
Britain and France declare war on Germany.
Britain and France declared war on Germany in September 1939 in response to the invasion of Poland. -
Battle of Britain
From 24 August onwards, the battle was a fight between Kesselring's Luftflotte 2 and Park's 11 Group. The Luftwaffe concentrated all their strength on knocking -
United States began to provide significant military supplies
During World War II, the United States began to provide significant military supplies and other assistance to the Allies in September 1940, -
Blitzkrieg.
combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry -
Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in the north of France -
Pacific war allies
The Pacific War saw the Allies pitted against Japan, the latter aided by Thailand and to a lesser extent by the Axis powers, Germany and Italy -
japanase attack pacific war
Japanese simultaneously attacked American military bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines and invaded Thailand and the British colonies of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong -
Pacific war bombing
Fighting included some of the largest naval battles in history and massive Allied air raids over Japan, as well as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
The Allies adopted a Europe first stance,
giving first priority to defeating Nazi Germany, but still managed to bring to bear the vast industrial might of the United States -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan. -
America declared war on Japan
Due to their relationship with Germany and Italy, they declared war on us -
Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066
giving the military the right to remove enemy aliens and anyone else suspected of disloyalty -
The Soviet Union launches offensives against Germany
turning point of the Eastern front of the European Theatre -
The Paris Peace Treaties
The victorious wartime Allied powers (principally the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, and France) negotiated the details of peace treaties with those former Axis powers, namely Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland, which had switched sides and declared war on Germany during the war. -
political clauses
The political clauses stipulated that the signatory should take all measures necessary to secure to all persons under its jurisdiction -
US marines raise the flag over Iwo Jima
raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War. The photograph, taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945, was first -
Japan surrendered unconditionally
was occupied by the Allies. Japan lost its former possessions in Asia and the Pacific and had its sovereignty limited to the four main home islands and other minor islands as determined by the Allies -
Treaty of San Francisco
the state of war formally ended when the treaty of San Francisco came into force on April 20, 1952.