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Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected in November 1932, however refrains from taking office until March 4th due to US Law. -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the mass genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, throughout German-occupied territory. -
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American Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt is Re-Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected for a second term in office by a landslide vote with 60.8% of the vote and carried every state except Maine and Vermont. -
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German Assault of Holland - Blitzkrieg
Holland surrendered six days later. Their military was unable to cope with blitzkriegs speed. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt is Re-Elected
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a third term, making him the only president to serve three consecutive terms in office. -
"Lend-Lease" Act Passed
The Lend-Lease Act was a law wherein the United States of America agreed to supply the United Kindom, USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel (wartime nessesities and hardware) between 1941 and 1945.
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invastion of Russia. Beginning on June 22, 1941, over 4 million soldiers of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 1,800 mi. front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare. In addition to troops, Barbarossa used 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses. This ambitious operation was driven by Adolf Hitler's desire to conquer the Soviet territories. -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a prelimenary strike against the US Pacific Fleet to prevent them from interfering with Japanese naval actions along the coast of Southeast Asia. Following the attack, the United States declared war on Japan; Germany and Italy then declared war on the United States. -
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American Troops Deployed
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Bataan Death March
The march, characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder was 128 km (80mi) long. High fatilities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians by the Japanese army was later judged by the Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime. The first major abomination occured when 350-400 Filipino officers and NCOs were executed after they surrendered. -
US Surrenders at Corregidor
After a hard-fought defensive battle by the United States armed forces on Corregidor, The US was forced to surrender to the Imperial Japanese army after nearly a year of fighting and the loss of several smaller territories on Corregidor. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign during WWII. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Operation Watchtower
On August 7, 1942, Allied forces, predominantly American, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. The Allies also intended to use Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases to support a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. Read More -
Operation Pointblank
Operation Pointblank was the code name for the primary portion of the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive intended to cripple the German aircraft fighter strength, thus drawing it away from frontline operations and ensuring it would not be an obstacle to the invasion of Northwest Europe. The Pointblank directive of June 14,1943 ordered RAF Bomber Command and the U.S. Eighth Air Force to bomb specific targets such as aircraft factories. -
Normandy Landings
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am. In planning, the term D-Day was used for the day of the actual landing. -
Market Garden Tactical Failure
Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany. It was the largest airborne operation during the war up to that time. The operation made large-scale use of airborne forces, whose tactical objectives were to secure the bridges and allow a rapid advance by armored units into Northern Germany. However, due to several tactical incidents paired with heavy German resistance, UK, US, RNMIB and Polish forces retreated off of the Rhine river. -
Operation Detatchment
Operation Detatchment, or the Battle of Iwo Jima, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting during the Pacific Theater of Operations. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945, threatening Japan with "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum, and the United States deployed two nuclear weapons developed by the Manhattan Project. American airmen dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on August 9. -
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
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Japan Surrenders
The surrender of the Empire of Japan brought the hostilities of World War II to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent. The combined shock of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki paired with the USSR's declaration of war on Japan caused Emperor Hirohito to issue an immediate surrender under Allied conditions.
