WW2

By Lizzy Fichtner

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades and concurs Ethiopia in 1935.

  • Munich Agreement

    Agreed that the Sudetenland would be reunited with Germany and that no further territorial claims would be made by Germany.

  • Appeasement

    Is giving in to someones demands

  • War is Declared

    In sep. 1939 Germany invades Poland. 2 days later Britain and France declare war.

  • Axis power

    Germany, Italy, and Japan alliance.

  • Admiral Yamamoto

    Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943)

  • Pearl Harbor

    Major naval base in HI, that was attached by Japan.

  • Battle of Midway

    World War II battle between the United States and Japan a turning point in the war in the Pacific.

  • Kamikaze piolets

    WW2 Japanese suicide plane.

  • Douglas MacArthur

    United States General during the Great Depression WW2 and Korean War forced by Truman to resign in 1951.

  • Island Hopping

    The American navy attacked islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. The capture of each successive island from the Japanese brought the American navy closer to an invasion of Japan.

  • Bataan Death March

    American soldiers and Filipinos were forced to walk 65 miles by the Japanese. 16,000 men died.

  • Jimmy Doolittle

    Doolittle was recalled to active duty during World War II. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for personal valor and leadership as commander of the Doolittle Raid, a bold long-range retaliatory air raid on the Japanese main islands, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The attack was a major morale booster for the United States, and Doolittle was celebrated as a hero.

  • Battle of Coral sea

    92 aircraft destroyed. The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.

  • Iwo Jima

    A bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)

  • Battle of Okinawa

    Last offensive before Japan. U.S victory

  • Nagasaki

    USA bomb over Nagasaki, Japan.

  • Rationing

    U.S. rationed food, gas, and other materials

  • Hiroshima

    City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

  • V-J Day

    "Victory over Japan day" is the celebration of the Surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945