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Pre WWII - Post WWII
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London Economic Conference
Revealed how Roosevelt's foreign policy affected his strategy for domestic economic recovery -
Tydings-McDuffie Act
Provided the independence of the Philippines by 1946 -
Nye Committee
Senate Committee blamed US WWI entry on American bankers -
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Reopened American foreign trade -
Rhineland Invason
Hitlers army marched into demilitarized Rhineland and wiped out 6 million victims. -
Ethiopian Invasion
Mussolini ruthlessly attacked Ethiopia -
Spanish Civil War
Spanish rebels overthrew their government, it was headed by facist Francisco Franco -
Japan invades China
(Curtain raiser of WWII) Japan launched their attack at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing -
Hitler - Stalin Non - Agression Treaty
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed a treaty saying that neither country will launch any attacks on the other. -
Invasion Of France
Hitler shifted his divisions from Poland to France -
Battle Of Britain
Hitler launched air raids over Britain in hope of a successful invasion, however his plans were halted due to Britains Royal Air Force. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan airforces bombed American naval base at pearl harbor -
War Production Board
produced enormous amounts of weaponry -
Bataan Death March
Japanese forces forced American prisoners of war to walk 80-mile to prisoner-of-war camps -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Japanese forces were stopped by the Allied navy -
North African invasion
Allies pushed the German - Italian force back to Tunisia where they surrendered -
Battle of Midway
American forces effectively srippled Japans Naval forces -
Stalingrad
Soviets stopped German attack on Russia and launched a major counter offensive -
Italian campaign
Sicily fell and soon after, Italy surrendered in september -
D-Day
The greatest seaborne invasion in history where Allied forces stormed the beach along the Normandy coast and opened up a second front which took pressure off the russians -
Korematsu v. United Sates
congress sided with military and gave them authority to exclude Japanese citizens from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage