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Attack of Manchuria
The Japanese army seized Manchuria. The army set up a puppet government . Japanese engineers and technicians began arriving in large numbers to build mines and factories -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws deprived the Jews of their rights to German citizenship, jobs and properties. Jews had to wear a bright yellow star on their clothes -
Alliance with Italy and Germany
Keeping Emperor Hirohito as head of state won popular support for the army leaders who ruled in there name. Like Hitler and Mussolini, Japan's militarists were extreme nationalists. Thery planned a Pacific that included a conquered China. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and murdered around 100 Jews. It is known as the "Night of Broken Glass." -
Invasion of Poland
On September 1, 1939 German planes invaded Polish airspace, raining bombs, and terror on the Poles. This event event unleashed World War 2. -
Soviet Union invaded E. Poland
Stalin sent Soviet troops to occupy the eastern half of Poland and through a harsh winter the Soviets had forced the Finns to accept his surrender terms in March 1940 -
France Surrenders
Italy and the Germans had teamed up to declare war on France and Great Britain. On June 22, France had surrendered and the Germans had taken the northern part of the country of France -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend Lease act was an program in which the the U.S.A supplied resources for France, Great Britain, China, and USSR. This was a great program during World War 2 -
German invasion of Soviet Union
The sound of the Germans tanks start the invasion of the Soviet Union. Germans invade the Soviet Union using blitzcrieg. When the winter comes the Germans have to retreat and Moscow is saved and 500,000 people are saved -
Atlantic Charter
Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met secretly on a battleship off of Newfoundland. This agreement allows each country free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government. -
Battle of Britain
After the fall of France, Hitler's next move was to attack Great Britain. Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Great Britain would not give into Hitler. After months of fighting Hitler called off his attacks. This battle was important because the Allies had learned that Hitlers advances could be blocked -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 American Sailors were awoken by the roars of the explosions of the Japanese. They attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The Japanese had defeated the Americans and this was a horrible loss for the Americans -
Japanese internment
President Roosevelt set up a program of internment and loss of property, since Japanese Americans were considered a threat to the country. The US started sending Japanese Americans into camps -
Battle of Midway
The Japanese attacked an island near Hawaii. This was where the U.S.A's major air support was located. The U.S got revenge for Pearl Harbor and defeated the Japanese -
Allied Invasion of Italy
Allied forces of 180,000 soldiers landed on Sicily and captured it from Italian and German troops in August. Mussolini dressed as a German soldier and he was shot and his body was hanged in the Milan Town Square -
D-Day
British, American, French, and Canadian troops fought their way onto a 60-mile stretch of beach. They had defeated the Germans. Among the Americans, 3,000 soldiers had died at Normandy -
German Surrender
After the Soviets crushed the city of Berlin, Hitler and his Wife killed themselves to get out of the war and Hitler wrote a note saying the Jews started the war. Their bodies were found and burned. On May 8th, the surrender was officially signed in Berlin. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The United States of America tried to get back at Japan for what they did at Pearl Harbor. The U.S dropped a bomg on the city of Hiroshima and killed over 70,000 people. This stunned the Japanese -
Bombing of Nagasaki
Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S.A bombed another city in Japan, the city of Nagasaki. It killed over 30,000 people and this finally caused Japan to surrender. This was the end of World War II -
Japanese Surrender
After the bombings from the United States, the Japanese had finally surrendered. They surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur on September 2nd. The surrender was signed on a US boat.
