Packet 3 #5 By josh_0129 1929 Geneva convention agreement signed 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria 1937 Japan invaded China (Rape of Nanking) 1939 Hitler invaded Poland (start of World War 2) 1940 Battle of Britain began 1941 Hitler invaded the Soviet Union 1941 Lend-Lease Act was passed 1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor 1941 "Defeat Hitler First" strategy started 1941 Battle El Alamein (british prevent the germans from Gaining access to oil at the Suez Canal) 1941 Hitler began the final solution (extermination of the Jews) 1941 Rosie the Riveter created 1942 U.S. began the use if the Navajo code 1942 Battle of Stalingrad 1942 Battle of Midway (turning point battle in the pacific) 1942 Bataan Death March 1942 Japanese Americans were put into internment campus 1943 First Nisei regiments established (Japanese American) 1944 General Eisenhower led the D-day invasion 1945 Island hopping campaign began in the pacific 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima 1945 Battle of okinawa 1945 Nuremberg Trials held high ranking Nazis put on trial for crimes against humanity) 1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
