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Treaty of Versailles
The Allied powers created this treaty after WWI, which reduced Germany's army, forced them to pay reparations and punished/blamed Germany for WWI. This led to an economic depression in Germany, which later allowed the rise of the Nazi Party -
Election of 1932
The 1932 United States presidential election was the thirty-seventh quadrennial presidential election, The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. -
The Neutrality Acts
On August 31, 1935, Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license. -
Annexation of Austria
Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The word's German spelling, until the German orthography reform of 1996, was Anschluß and it was also known as the Anschluss Österreichs. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement or Munich Betrayal was an agreement concluded by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy. It provided "cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory" of Czechoslovakia -
Hitler invades Poland
The day Hitler starts WWII by invading Poland -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend Lease Act was a act that restricted the American government from lending or lease anything that is beneficial to vital defense of the United States.” -
Hitler invades Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day -
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of World War II, representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. -
Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case upholding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. -
D-Day Invasion
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.