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Great Depression hits the US
This event was very hard for the US we went into and deep economic depression and a lot of civilians lost their homes, jobs and basically almost everything that they owned because they had no money to keep these things. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
As hitler gave his speech to the people saying how great of a person he his and all the wonders he will do all the poeple of Germany believed him and voted him to be their chancellor on the day of January 30th 1933. -
The Night of Broken Glass
The night that violence broke out against the jews. It was not planned but it happpened because the Germans were furious about the assassination of one of their German
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Nazi Soviet PACT
Germany and the Soviet Union met up to talk about the PAct which was basically that they both agreed that they would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon to begin World War II. The Soviet Union was awarded land, including parts of The Baltic States and some of Poland -
Germany Invades Poland
Hitler told everyone he invaded poland using a sneak attack called blitkreg so that he would make more living spots for Germans but Britain and France dont believe it at all. -
Blitzkreg
This is an event where one country uses a sneak attack strategy on the other. For example Germany used this strategy on Poland in 1939. -
Lend Lease Act
It permitted President Roosevelt to sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government defense article. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
On this day at 7:55 a.m the Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. At first the U.S just thought this was some kind of drill but come to find out it was an attack. This bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed many of the Americans battleships. -
D-Day
People today call it the turning point of WWII or The Battle or Normady. On this day the Allied powers invaded Northern France and won. This event was the first big victory for the Allied powers. -
Yalta Conference
This was a meeting between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During this conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
V Day
V Day is also refrencd to victory day because it is the day that the Allied forces made the Nazis surrender all of their armed forces and this event also ended WWII. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
At 8:16 a.m. The U.S dropped a bomb that went by the name of Little boy on a city in Japan named Hiroshima. This bomb killed about 90,000–146,000. -
Bombing on Nagasaki
Three days after the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima they dropped a bomb that they called Fat man into the city of Nagasaki in Japan killing 39,000–80,000 people. -
Establishment of the United Nations
This was supposed to create a better way to internationally handle conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations.
