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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin gained control over the Communist Party after Lenin died and became dictator of the Soviet Union. In order to change the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower, Stalin launched a series of 5-year plans. He signed a nonaggression pact with Adolf Hitler. Stalin ignored the United States and Britain's warnings. -
Albert Einstein
Einstein moved to the United states in order to avoid the hatred in Germany. He helped form the basis of developing the atom bomb with the use of his famous equation, E=mc2. -
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur was in charge of the American-led coalition of United Nation troops during the Korean War. He met up with Truman and requested permission to bomb communist China, but was turned down and removed from his command. -
Holocaust
In 1933 Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party killed about six million Jews. The Nazi party also killed five million non-jewish people. These killings took place in a German territories. -
Adolf Hitler
Hitler became leader of Germany and created the Nazi party. He convinced people that Jews were bad and put them in concentration camps and killed them. He soon began to take over countries, defy the treaty of Versailles, and go back on every agreement that he has with other countries. He didn’t want America to join in the war, so he sent a Zimmerman Note to Mexico to try and convince them to declare war on the U.S. -
Nuremberg Laws
Laws passed on September 15, 1935 Germany that excluded jews from many rights, including restrictions of marrying and/or having sexual relations with anyone of pure German descent. -
Munich Pact
An agreement reached between Britain, Germany, Italy, and France on 30, 1938 that gave Germany the opportunity to annex the Sudetenland. -
Neutrality Act of 1939
The Neutrality Act of 1939 was passed on November 4, 1939 by the United States in an effort to maintain the neutrality of the country and to help improve the safety of civilians. -
Tripartite Act
A pact signed by Germany, Japan, and Italy on September 27, 1940 to confirm a military alliance between the countries. Hungary eventually joined the group. -
Lend-Lease Ac
The Lend-Lease act was passed on March 11, 1941 and gave the permission to the sale/lease of weapons and aid to any country that the US deemed necessary to defend in order to continue the safety of the US. -
Peal Harbor
On December 7th, 1941 Japan had bombed a city in Hawaii called Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a naval base for the United States. Up until this happened, the US remained neutral in the war. However the day after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt went to congress, so he could try to convince them to go to war with the Allies. After that, we did. -
Island Hopping
Island Hopping is when a military takes one island at a time, usually with one specific endpoint. The United States military did this in WWII when they were at war with Japan. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project helped build the nuclear weapons for WWII. It was led by the United States, later the United Kingdom and Canada joined in. This project had created hundreds of new jobs. -
Harry S. Truman
Truman was the president during world war II. While he was president, Japan performed a surprise attack and bombed Pearl Harbor. After that, Truman approved the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.