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Formation of the United Nations
The Declaration of Independence was adopted and this date is celebrated as the nation's birthday. -
Mussolini and the Fascists come to power in Italy
Fascism arose in Europe after World War l when many people yearned for national unity and strong leadership. In Italy Benito Mussolini used his charisma to establish a powerful fascist state. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden incident. -
Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany
The Nazi party's meteoric rise to power rise to power when it attained 107 seats in Germany's parliament, the Reichstag's. The Nazi party became the largest political party. -
Neutrality Acts passed in the U.S.
The Neutrality Acts were a series of acts passed by the United States Congress in response to the growing threats and wars that led to World War ll. -
Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was an agreement concluded at Munich by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom,the French Third Republic and the kingdom of Italy, It provided cession to Germany of sudden German territory of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
This was a program against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany. The German authorities looked on without intervening. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War ll that produced the first nuclear Weapons. It was led by the U.S with the support of the U.K. -
Formation of the Axis powers
The alliance began to form and Germany and Italy signed a friendship treaty that formed the Rome-German Axis. After this treaty that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini used the term Axis to refer to their alliance. -
Germany and the USSR sign the Non-Agression pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take military action against each other for the next ten years. -
Germany invades Poland- Beginning of WW ll
The invasion of Poland marked the beginning of World War ll. The German invasion began on September 1, 1939 one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. -
Battle of the Atlantic
The longest continuous military campaign in World War ll, up until the defeat of Nazi Germany. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Over 1,000 people died in this attack. This was done to make the USA afraid.
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France fall to Germany
The battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the low counties during the second World War. France had declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland. -
Rescue at Dunkirk
Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk, involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk. The evacuation, sometimes referred to as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was a big boost for British morale.
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Presidential election of 1940
The 39th quadrennial presidential election. The election was contested in the shadow of world war ll in Europe as the U.S was emerging from the Great Depression. -
Congress passes the Lend Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act approved by congress, had given president Roosevelt virtually unlimited authority to direct material aid such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes trucks,and food to the war effort in Europe without violating the nation's official position of neutrality. -
Relocation of Japanese Americans to camps
The forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during WW ll. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the imperial Japanese Army. Americans and Filipino troops were forced to make an arduous 65 mile march to the prison camps. They marched in intense heat and was treated harsh by Japanese guards. -
Battle of Midway Island
The Battle of Midway was a major Naval battle in the pacific Theater of World War ll. It took place six months after Japan's attack on the Pearl Harbor and one more month after the battle of the Coral Sea.
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Rosie the Riveter campaign
An allegorical cultural icon of World War ll, representing the woman who worked in factories and shipyards during WW ll, many produced war supplies. These women took jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. -
D-Day Invasion
This was the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare.The statistics of D-Day, was code named Operation Overload. The Allies used ships and landing craft to land troops on five beaches in Normandy. -
Allied Invasion/Victory in the Philippines
The Japanese Army Overran all of the Philippines during the first half of 1942. -
Presidential Election of 1944
The 1944 United States Presidential election was the 40th quadrennial election. The election took place during World War ll. -
Battle of Bulge
The Germany army launched a counter offensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitlers favor. -
Yalta Conference
This was the World War ll meeting of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
V-E Day
Victory of Europe day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the allies of World War ll of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Surrender of Japan
The surrender of imperial Japan was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Formally sign on September 2, 1945 bringing the hostilities of World War ll to a close. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S detonated two nuclear weapons over Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th 1945 respectively.
