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Chapter 17 Section 1: Lenin's Death
Lenin dies, allowing Stalin to come to power -
Chapter 17 Section 3: Japan seizes Manchuria
Japan seizes all of Manchuria -
Chapter 17 Section 1: Hitler
Hitler becomes chancellor -
Chapter 17 Section 1: Spanish Civil War
Spain's democractic government holds the country's last free elections before the civil war -
Chapter 17 Section 1: Mussolini
Mussolini overtakes Ethiopia and enforces fascism in Italy -
Chapter 17 Section 3: Sino-Japanese War
Japan resumes invasion of China -
Chapter 17 Section 1: Sudetenland
Britain and France sacrifice Sudetenland to Germany to avoid conflict -
Chapter 17 Section 2: Polish Aid
British and French leaders formally pledge to aid Poland if Germany invades -
Chapter 17 Section 2: Hitler Invades
Hitler invades Poland -
Chapter 17 Section 3: Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Japan's prime minister announced a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere -
Chapter 17 Section 2: Blitzkrieg
German troops launch Blitzkrieg on the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg -
Chapter 17 Section 2: France Surrenders
France surrenders Paris to Germany -
Chapter 17 Section 2: Battle of Britain
Hitler launched the greatest air assault against Britain -
Chapter 17 Section 3: Tripartite Act
Japan allied itself with Germany and Italy through the Tripartite Act -
Chapter 18 Section 1: Selective Training & Service Act
Required all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service -
Chapter 17 Section 4: Roosevelt Re-election
Roosevelt wins the re-election to his third term -
Chapter 17 Section 4: Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security -
Chapter 17 Section 3: Neutrality Pact
Japan signed a neutrality pact with the Soviet Union -
Chapter 18 Section 1: OPA
The Office of Price Administration is established by an executive order -
Chapter 18 Section 5: Executive Order 8802
Roosevelt signed the order, opening jobs and job training without discrimination -
Chapter 17 Section 4: Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks the U.S. in Hawaii -
Chapter 17 Section 4: U.S. Declares War
Roosevelt declares war on Japan -
Chapter 17 Section 4: Germany Declares War
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. -
Chapter 18 Section 3: Wannsee Conference
Nazi officials met outside Berlin to agree on a new approach to extinguish Jews -
Chapter 18 Section 5: Executive Order 9066
The president signed the order authorizing the secretary of war to establish military zones on the west coast -
Chapter 18 Section 4: Battle of the Coral Sea
Aircraft launched from from aircraft carruers bombed enemy ships more than 70 miles away -
Chapter 18 Section 1: Office of War Information
Established by Roosevelt to stir American's patriotic feelings -
Chapter 18 Section 4: Battle of Midway
Fought entirely in the air, the U.S. and Japan fight for the island -
Chapter 18 Section 2: Battle of Stalingrad
Germany and the Soviet Union fight in a bitter house-to-house combat -
Chapter 18 Section 1: African-American Soldiers
African-Americans are given the right to fight alonside white soldiers -
Chapter 18 Section 1: Victory Gardens
One third of the country's vegetables are produced by victory gardens -
Chapter 18 Section 5: CORE
The Congress of Racial Equality is established -
Chapter 18 Section 3: Treblinka
Rioting Jews damage Treblinka death camp -
Chapter 18 Section 3: War Refugee Board
Roosevelt creates the WRB to try to help people threatened by Nazis -
Chapter 18 Section 5: Working Women
19.4 million women are working in the U.S. -
Chapter 18 Section 2: D-DAY
The U.S. conducts the largest attack ever on Normandy Beach -
Chapter 18 Section 2: Battle of the Bulge
Nazis bush back the border into Belgium -
Chapter 18 Section 3: Eve of Liberation
Thousands of Jews die on the eve of liberation as they march from camp to camp -
Chapter 18 Section 5: Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans are allowed to leave the camps -
Chapter 18 Section 4: Iwo Jima
The first day of invasion at Iwo Jima -
Chapter 18 Section 2: Berlin
The Soviet Union captures Berlin, Germany -
Chapter 18 Section 2: Germany Surrenders
After the Soviet Union captures Berlin, Germany's remaining troops surrender -
Chapter 18 Section 4: Battle of Okinawa
The small island was the last small stepping stone of Japanese soil in the Allied invasion of Japan -
Chapter 18 Section 4: Atomic Bomb
Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb on Japan -
Chapter 18 Section 3: Nuremberg Trials
The International Military Tribunal made of the U.S., Great Britain, Soviet Union, and France conduct the trials
