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Germany invades the Rhineland
-Rhineland was a demiltarized zone between Germany and France
-Invasion goes against the Treaty of Versailles -
Spanish Civil War
-Spanish Civil War started
-Francisco Franco was supported by Germany and Italy
-Loyalits were supported by USSR -
FDR's Quarantine Speech
- FDR said it was the responsibility of democracies to stop the expansion of totalitarian regimes
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Anschluss
-Hitler announces a union between Germany and Austria
-Germany reunites with Austria -
Kristallnacht
-Jewish businesses and synogogues were destroyed
-100 Jews killed and 26,000 sent to concentration camps
-Jews were blamed for the damage -
Munich Conference
-France and Britain surrender the Sudetenland to Germany as part of the policy of appeasement -
Germany takes Czechoslovakia
-Germany invades and takes control of Czechoslovakia -
Nonagression Pact
-USSR and Germany promise not to attack each other
-secret agreement to divide up Poland -
Invasion of Poland
-Germany invaded Poland using the Blitzkrieg method
-Official start of WWII -
Battle of France
-Germany attacked France's northern border and captures Paris -
Battle of Britain
-Germany's air force attacks Great Britain but could not beat the Royal Air Force
-Great Britain's victory saved them from a ground invasion and possibly being taken over -
Operation Barabossa
-Germany invaded the Soviet Union
-Germany captured industrial centers and grain fields
-They laid seige to Leningrad -
Atlantic Charter
-Roosevelt and Churchill met on a charter boat in the Atlantic Ocean to discuss war strategy -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
-Japan attacked the US Naval Base in Hawaii
-brought America into WWII -
Germany and Italy Declare War
-Germany and Italy declare war on the United States -
Bataan Death March
-after the American surrender against Japan at Bataan
-American and Filipino prisoners were forced to march to prisoner-of-war camps
-more than 10,000 died -
Battle of Coral Sea
-Japan planned to attack New Guinea and one of the Solomon Islands
-They were intercepted by the US and Great Britain
-Japanese were greatly damaged -
Battle of Midway
-Allied forces crippled Japan's navy
-U.S.broke Japanese code and learned about plans for attacking the island
-vital victory for the Allies -
Allies captured Rome
-Italians had switched sides and turned on Hitler
-Germans stayed to fight
-Allies invaded Italy
-Italy seemed like a dead end because of the impenetrable German defense -
Battle of Stalingrad
-Soviet Union and Germany fought over the city of Stalingrad
-Soviet forces surrounded the German army but Hitler forbid them from surrendering -
D-Day
-US troops landed on the banks of Normandy -
Liberation of Paris
-the fighting that started with D-Day led to the Germans surrendering in Paris -
Leyte Gulf
-the last three battles Japan's navy fought against MacArthur
-America won all of them -
Korematsu vs. United States
-Supreme Court ruled it was okay to take such drastic measures during wartime -
Yalta Conference
-FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss the postwar -
Firebomb Raid on Tokyo
-over 250,000 buildings were destroyed in Tokyo
-around 83,000 peaple were killed -
Germany Surrenders
-German government surrenders unconditionally -
V-E Day
-Victory in Europe Day
-celebration of Germany's surrender -
Potsdam Conference
-Truman, Churchill, and Stalin meet after Germany's surrender
-results in Germany being split up into four occupation zones -
Hiroshima
-first dropping of atomic bomb on Japan -
Nagasaki
-second dropping of atomic bomb on Japan -
Japan Surrenders
