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Mussolini and the Fascists come to power in Italy
rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism. -
Japanese invasion of Machchuria
Japan had invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations. Japan had a highly developed industry, but the land was scarce of natural resources -
Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany
The party's rise to power was rapid. Before the economic depression struck, the Nazis were practically unknown, -
Neutrality Acts passed in the US
the United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality -
Munich Conference
came as a result of a long series of negotiations. Adolf Hitler had demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it. -
Kristallnact
"Night of Crystal," is often referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass." -
Germany and the USSR sign the Non-Agression Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years -
Germany invades Poland-Beginning of WW2
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
France falls to Germany
Wasthe german invasion of france and the low countries during the second wprld war 2. -
Rescue at Dunkirk
Codde name opperation Dynamo was the evacuation of allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of dunkirk,france. -
Formation of the Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, which became known as the Axis alliance. Even before the Tripartite Pact, two of the three Axis powers had initiated conflicts that would become theaters of war in World War II. -
Presidential election of 1940
Fought in the shadow of world war 2 as the United swtates was emerging from the great depression. -
Congress passes the Lend Lease Act
This act set up a system that would allow the united states the lend or lease war supplies to any nation -
Bombingof Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
was a suprose attack by japan on american facilities. -
Relocation of Japanese Americans TO CAMPS
120,00 americans move to 10 internment camps across country. -
Bataan Death March
when 75,00 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an ardolous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Battle of Midway Island
was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the pacific theater and world war 2. started six months after the attack on Pearl Harbour. -
Rosie the Riveter campaign encourages woman to get a job
woman to get a job. while man were at war, -
D-Day Invasion
Allies invaded Western European than 100,000 allied troops landed along 50-mile stretch of heavenly fortified french caostline to fight the nazi gemerm=ny on beaches of normand,france. -
Battle of Bulge
was a major german offensive campaign launched through the densely forested ardennes region of wallionia in belgium,france. -
Allie Invasion/Victory in the Phillippines
american and filipino campaign to defeat and expel the imperial japanese forces accupying the phillipeans during ww2. -
Presidential Election of 1944
took place while the united states was preoccupied with fighting ww2. -
Yalta Conference
was a meeting of British prime ministyer winston churchhill soviet premeir joseph statlin and president franklin d. roosevelt earky in february 1945 was ww2 was winding down. -
V-E Day
it marks the formal acceptence by the allies of ww2 of nazi germany's unsinditional surrender of its armed froces. -
Manhattan Project
the nuclear age began. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
an american b-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the japanese city of hiroshima. -
Surrender of Japan
it briught an end to ww2, theey surrended the allies. -
Battle of the Atlantic
longest battle of ww2.began immediatly upon bristish declaration of war against Germany. -
Formation of the United Nations
An intergorvenmental organization to promote international co-operation. replacement for the ineffective league of narions.
