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Japan had invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations. Japan had a highly developed industry
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The Neutrality Acts passed to prevent US involvement in war and maintain US isolation. This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of cash and carry.
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The Munich pact was an agreement. It reached by Germany, Great Brittin, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
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Kristallnacht was a progrom against jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throught Nazi Germany.
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Germany's invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, led french and Britain to declare war on Germany. The invasion of Poland marked the beginning of World war 11.
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The lend-lease act set up a system that would allow the united states to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed.
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FDR and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter. It was a statement that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World war 11.
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This prohibiting ethnic or racial discrimination in the national defense industry.
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The Atlantic conference Churchill and FDR alliance strengthened between the US and Great Britain by sighing the Atlantic Charter.
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There was a surprise attack launched by the Japanese against pearl harbor naval base as well as nearby airfields.
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FDR issued the Exec order which authorized the internment of Americans of Japanese descent and resident aliens from Japan.
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This battle was one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World war ll begins.
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This was an invasion of north Africa and was launched to free the Mediterranian sea from german control and protect the oil fields in the middle east.
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This was the largest seaborne invasion in history. It finally provided the long-awaited western front.
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This was the last German offensive and the beginning of the end for the Nazis. This battle started when German forces launched a surprise attack on allied forces.
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In the Korematsu v. United States, the supreme court held that the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional.
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The Yalta conference was an important conference in which the leaders of the Big Three met in February to discuss plans for the end of World war 11 and the future of the world.
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Trueman dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to prevent the necessity for landing and fighting on the Japanese home island.
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The impetus to establish the United Nations stemmed in large part from the inability of its predecessor the League of Nations to prevent the outbreak of the second world war.
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The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after world war ll by the allied forces under international law and the laws of war.
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Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political military and economic assistance to all democratic nations threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was formed in 1949 to provide collective security against the threat posted by the Soviet Union
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President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of state George Marshall.
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Israel has more museums per capita than any other country in the world. Israel was signed by members of the national council, representing the Jewish community in the country.
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The Berlin Airlift could be called the first battle of the cold war. It was when western countries delivered much needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin.
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The atomic bomb is a powerful weapon. That use nuclear reactions as a source of explosive energy. Atomic bombs have been used only twice in war.
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The Korean war was a war between north Korea ans south Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when north Korea invaded south Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.
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The Soviet Union launched the earths first artificial satellite, sputnik. The successful launched came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States. Sputnik was the first human made object to orbit the Earth
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This act became one of the most successful legislative initiatives in higher education. It established the legitimacy of federal funding of higher education and made substantial funds available for low cost student loans, boosting public and private colleges and universities.
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The Berlin wall was built in 1961 to stop an exodus from the eastern communists part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west.
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The soviet Afghan war was a conflict wherein insurgent groups as well as smaller Maoist groups.
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This was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.