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The Weimar Republic formed during an unstable time in Germany when there was extensive social and political unrest as the people of Germany felt that the Treaty of Versailles treated them too harshly.
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Adolf Hitler led the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Nazis supported him throughout WWII.
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The world powers met in Washington to discuss naval disarmament and how to aid the unrest in East Asia.
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The Washington Conference called for naval disarmament.
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The Four Power Treaty bound the United States, Japan, France, and Britain to maintain status quo in the Pacific.
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The Five Power Treaty limited countries' naval ships to the ratio of 5:5:3 with the U.S., Great Britain, and Japan respectively.
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The 9 Power Treaty affirmed the sovereignty of China.
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Stalin ruled the USSR by terror and turned the country into an "industrial and military superpower".
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Benito Mussolini was the Prime Minister of Italy, was known as one of the creaters of Fascism, and was an ally of Hitler during World War II.
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The United States accomplished three major points in the Dawes Plan, they loaned money to Germany to help pay off reparations, helped set up financial reforms in Germany, and took Allied troops out of the Ruhr area.
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Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, an autobiography, outlining his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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Hirohito was the emperor of Japan through WWII, during his rule, his country went through a phase of strong nationalism and militarism.
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact was a pact against future wars.
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During the 1920s, the stock market expanded rapidly, but when prices began to fall people went into a panic and began to sell their stocks causing the market to crash.
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Japan created a puppet state in Manchuria lasting through WWII.
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The Stimson Doctrine stated to Japan and China that the United States would not recognize territories taken by force.
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Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany, and had became so influential with the German people because of the hard economic times and his great speaking ability.
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Hitler began the Holocaust-- a persecution of all people of the Jewish faith.
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The New Deal was a collection of programs created by FDR to help end the Great Depression.
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The United States claimed that it would not become involved in internal affairs of other nations with the Good Neighbor Policy.
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FDR's first term as President began in 1933, he was the only president to serve more than two terms.
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The London Economic Conference was an attempt to revive the world economy and trade; however, FDR was against the idea because he felt he would lose control of the United States' economy.
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Hitler defied the Treaty of Versailles and began to prepare Germany for another war; he began by withdrawing Germany from the League of Nations.
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The United States recognized the Soviet Union and opened trade and relations with them.
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The United States repudiated the Monroe Doctrine and established the Good Neighbor Policy with Latin American countries.
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The Tydings-McDuffie Act provided self-government and independence for the Philippines.
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The Reciprocal Trade Agreement stated that FDR would decrease tariffs up to 50%, if the other country would do so as well.
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In 1935, FDR signed the Neutrality Act stating that the United States would aviod war at all costs.
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Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in order to help increase national prestige and expand Italy's territory.
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Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles and sent troops into the demilitarized Rhineland.
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The Spanish Civil War was fought by the Republicans, in support of the Spanish government already in place, and the Nationalists, led by Francisco Franco.
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The Rome-Berlin Axis was an alliance between Naxi Hitler and Fascist Mussolini created in 1936.
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Japan invaded China and began the Sino-Japanese War.
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FDR's speech proposing "a quarantine against agressor nations".
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After defeating the Chinese in Nanking, the Japanese murdered prisoners of war, and raped and murdered many civilians.
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Hitler annexed Austria and announced the new union between Germany and Austria.
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The Munich Pact gave Czechoslovakia to Germany as long has Hitler remained peaceful.
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Adolf Hitler met with three other European powers to come to an agreement that Hitler could take the Sudetenland if he would not make further territorial demands in Europe.
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Adolf Hitler met with three other European powers to come to an agreement that Hitler could take the Sudetenland if he would not make further territorial demands in Europe.
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Kristallnacht was a night when thousands anti-Jewish pograms occured, and many Jewish homes and businesses were destroyed.
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On March 15, 1939, Hitler took Czechoslovakia which was promised to him in the Munich Pact.
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Hitler and Stalin signed a non-agression pact for personal gain despite their extreme differences.
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Germany invaded Poland in what they claimed to be a defensive action; however, this caused the Allied powers to declare the start of the second World War.
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The Sitzkrieg was the name for the time period when the Allies werent primarily active.
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Auschwitz was a Death Camp for Polish prisoners and Jews, and it was one of the largest concentration camps of WWII.
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Winston Churchill was a great figure in British history and led Britain in WWII.
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Allied soldiers evacuated Dunkirk just as German forced captured the port-- thus saving thousands of soldiers from the Nazis.
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The Vichy Government formed in France under Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, and was closely allied to Germany during WWII.
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The Battle of Britain was an attempt by the German Air Force to control Britain; the failure of the Germans allowed for Britain's freedom.
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While the US was still technically neutral, they made a deal with the British to give them 50 destroyers for military bases on British land.
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The signing of the Tripartite Pact allied the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan.
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FDR was elected for a third term; he is the only president to ever serve more than two terms.
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FDR's Four Freedoms speech was an attempt to push the United States out of neutrality and into WWII.
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The Lend-Lease Act allowed the United States to provide military material for Great Britain to borrow while keeping the United States neutral.
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Hitler saw the Soviet invasion of Romania as a threat to his oil supply, and therefore, attacked Russia despite their 1939 pact.
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The Atlantic Charter defined Allied goals for the world after the war.
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Hawaiian Japanese were kept in Internment camps in effort to ensure United States loyalty.
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FDR ordered the U.S. Navy to shoot German or Italian warships on sight in response to German torpedo attacks.
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Scientists, such as Albert Einstein, were supported by the government in the Manhattan Project to create an atomic bomb.
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The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, the U.S., in response, declared war on Japan, thus entering into WWII.
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FDR declared war on Japan as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the day before.
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The Office of Price Administration regulated wages and prices, and rationed food and supplies for the war effort.
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FDR set up the War Production Board in order to distribute scarce resources and limit production of civilian products.
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The Final Solution was Hitler's plan to annihilate the entire population of Jewish people.
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Campaign for blacks to fight for a social victory at home during World War II, in order to win a "double victory".
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Under FDR's command MacArthur left the Philippines, but promised to return.
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After the Battle of Bataan, the Japanese forced thousands of Filipino and American soldiers to march 65 miles, and they were killed if they fell or tried to escape.
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The Doolittle Raid was the first U.S. air raid on Japan and was a retaliation for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea, between the Unites States and Japan, was the first air-naval battle in history-- Japan was the victor.
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United States victory over Japanese that was a turning point in World War II.
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Axis powers under Field Marshall Rommel were close to a victory over the Allies in North Africa, but after the Allies were reinforced with American supplies, the Battle of El Alamein was brought to a standstill.
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First major offensive victory for the Allies in the Pacific against the Japanese.
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Allies wanted to establish a second front in North Africa to contain German expansion.
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Icon of government campaign to recruit women to the workforce.
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FDR and Churchill, along with other leaders, met in Casablanca, Morocco, to help decide the course of action for the rest of the war; the most momentious decision was that of unconditional surrender for the Axis powers.
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The German attact on Stalingrad was defeated after one of the bloodiest battles of the war; the Allied win, however, was a turning point in the German offensive attact of the Soviet Union.
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In the cost plus system the cost of production and part of the profit goes to contractors.
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The Smith-Conally Anti-Strike Act gave the president power to sieze privately owned companies who threatened with strike and impeded on war production.
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The Allies landing in Sicily began the Allied attempt to invade Axis controlled Europe.
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The United States began attacking island to island in Japan as the U.S. navy got stronger.
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FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met in Tehran, Iraq, to discuss the war, and potential peace settlements.
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Allied troops attack on German held Normany; the victory allowed the Allies to begin to gain more power in continental Europe.
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General MacArthur sent 100,000 soldiers to the Philippines, and the resulting battle there was the beginning of the end for the Japanese.
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Japanase Kamikaze pilots flew their planes directly into American planes causing massive damage.
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FDR was the only president ever elected for more than two terms; he was elected for his fourth because of the Allies strong grip on victory over the Axis powers.
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive of the war; the Germans attempted to push the front line out of North France.
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Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in Russia to discuss the future of the war in Europe and the Pacific.
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The United States attacked Iwo Jima, in effort to get a military base closer to Japan-- after one month of fighting the U.S. marines were successful.
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In the Battle of Okinawa the Allied powers began the last and bloodiest Pacific Island battles of WWII, both the Japanese and Allies suffered many casualties.
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Mussolini and his mistress were executed by the people, and their bodies were mutilated and displayed to the public.
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Adolf Hitler knew that he could not win the war, and that the Soviets would capture him soon, so he shot and killed himself before anyone else could.
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Germany was forced to surrender unconditionally to the Allies in both the East and West.
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Britain and the United States celebrate V-E Day on May 8, the day the Nazis were defeated.
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The Potsdam Conference was the last of the WWII conferences; Truman, Stalin, and Churchill discussed the conditions for the end of the war.
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The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was the first of two bombs dropped on Japan before their surrender to the United States in September 1945.
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After the second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, in Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered.
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V-J Day was the formal surrender of the Japanese government to the Allied powers.
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After the United States dropped two bombs on Japan, the Japanese surrendered in September 1945.
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The United Nations was signed into existence on October 24, 1945 as a means of negotiating peace and preventing international conflict.
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The Nuremberg Trials occured in 1945, and charged Nazi soldiers with war crimes, and crimes against peace and humanity.
