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Invasion
Japan invaded Manchuria. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
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FDR presidency
FDR was the 37th quadrennial presidential election. FDR had won by a landslide. -
Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor.
Hitler sets up Dachau concentration camp. -
Prohibition ends.
A huge relief for many buisnesses and people. -
Chinese communists flee in the Long March.
A military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China. -
Jesse Owens
Owens won four gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany. -
Rebellion in Spain
General Francisco Franco lead a fascist rebellion in Spain. A spanish military leader who was the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death. -
Roosevelt is reelected.
The 38th president. -
Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappears.
Earhart attempting her solo round-the-world flight. A famous, miraculous woman known for her courageous efforts with airplanes as a woman during the 1930s. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, also known as the "Night of Broken Glass" was an anti-semetic program throughout Germany. -
Britain's appeasment of Germany
To avoid war, Britain and France met German needs. -
Germany invades Poland while Britain and France declare war.
The Germans invadedthe north, south, and west. Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east. -
Axis Power
Dictators in Europe and Japan seized territory and threatened democratic governments. Japan joins the axis power. -
Roosevelt is elected his third term.
The election took place as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. FDR broke tradition and ran for a third term, which became a major issue. -
Hitler invades the Soviet Union
German military and authorities planned a war against the Communists and the Jews of the Soviet Union. Which they grouped as forming the "racial basis" for the Soviet state. -
US enters WWII
Entered after Pearl Harbor attack. -
Pearl Harbor bomb.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor which is what sparked WWII. -
Anti-Semetic
The Nazis develop the "final solution" for exterminating the Jews. -
Battle of Midway
US had a victory over Japan which marked the turning point of the war just off the island of Midway. -
Relocation
Japanese Americans are sent to relocation centers. -
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Roosevelt makes the War Production Board to coordinate mobilization. -
Surrender
Rommel's forces surrender in North Africa. He was known as the Desert Fox. A German Field Marshal of World War II. He earned the respect of both his own troops and his enemies. -
Riots
Zoot-Suit Riots take place in Los Angeles, California between the white sailors and marines that were stationed in the city. -
Fourth Term Presidency
President Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term. -
Allies capture Iwo Jima
An island that writer William Manchester descridbed as "an ugly, smelly glob of cold lava squatting in a surly ocean." Iwo Jima means "sulfur island" in Japanese -
Harry S. Truman becomes president.
Upon the death of FDR, Truman automatically becomes president from his previous position as vice president. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumed a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol. It is believed that both he and his wife swallowed cyanide capsules. For good measure, he shot himself with his service pistol. -
VE Day
The allies announced the surrender of Germany, -
Battle for Okinawa
Us marines invaded Okinawa. The cost was predicted to be a million American lives and half that number for British lives. -
Japan surrenders
After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
