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segregation of armed forces
1865; north won= civil war + no slavery.
1860-1976; Jim crows laws encoraged racial descrimination
Wasn't considered a cause or a consequence just kinda happen
may affected operation; less men in air forces, marines, A-A alienated from war -
Treaty of Versaille
signed June 28,1919
included Britian, France, Italy and Russia.
signed Peace treaty, Setting up the league of Nation
short term cause: Germany loses land -
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Lacarno Treaties
concluded at a conference held at Locarno, Switzerland, by representatives of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. -
1929 Geneva convention
Provisions concerning the treatment of prisoners of war are contained in the Hague Regulations of 1899 and 1907 -
Nazii and Soviet Non aggression pact
Germany = Soviet Union
suffered casualties roughly 730,000
long/short term affects: nuclear arms race and cold war stand off
u.s.s.r.
Caused because of Pearl Harbor -
Rommels command of the Axis in North Africa
Italy did remain neutral when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. When Germany invaded France in June 1940, however, Benito Mussolini could not resist the opportunity to grab his share of the spoils. On June 11, 1940, six days after the British evacuation at Dunkirk, France, Italy declared war on Britain and France. Britain and Italy were now at war in the Mediterranean. -
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Island Hopping
Douglas Macarthur was the 1st Island Hopper to attack. One of the quotes he use to say is " Remember by rules you brake."
was against the Japanese -
Appointment of Dwight Eisenhower as supreme allied commander
helped establish D-Day, supreme allied commander because of U.S. involment. 5 star general + invaded Germany -
Invasion of Eygypt and the battle of El alamein
Italy Invades Eygpt sept of 1949. Then in Dec 8, 1940 Italy was defeted. July 1-5, 1942= El Alamein first battle. Allies stopped Germany also stopped and defeated Axis. Oct 23-Nov 27= second battle of El Alamein. German commander died of a heart attack over loss. nov 1-2 germany was defeted by allies. -
operation tourch
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942 -
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African Alliance in WWII
After defeating Italy and Germany in the North African Campaign (November 8, 1942-May 13, 1943) of World War II (1939-45), the United States and Great Britain, the leading Allied powers, looked ahead to the invasion of occupied Europe and the final defeat of Nazi Germany -
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Operation Tourch
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942 -
Italy Surrender
On Oct. 13, 1943, one month after Italy surrendered to Allied forces, it declared war on Nazi Germany, its onetime Axis powers partner. Italy was led into the war by Benito Mussolini, the fascist prime minister who had formed an alliance with Nazi Germany in 1936 -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region -
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Dumbarton oaks conference
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, (Aug. 21–Oct. 7, 1944), meeting at Dumbarton Oaks, a mansion in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom formulated proposals for a world organization that became the basis for the United Nations -
Potsdam Conference
On this day in 1945, the conference of Allied victors at Potsdam, outside of Berlin, begins, with U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in attendance. -
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post-war occupation of japan
The occupation of Japan by the Allied Powers started in August 1945 and ended in April 1952. General MacArthur was its first Supreme Commander. The whole operation was mainly carried out by the United States. -
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nuremburg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany -
Marshall plan
was a consequences
Truman signed European recovery act in April 3, 1948
Japanese bombed pearl harbor then U.S. got involved -
japanese interment
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans from the West Coast--where the majority of Japanese Americans lived, outside of Hawaii