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Nazi Germany Invaded Poland
1.5 million German troops entered Poland. German bombed polish airfield and attacked their naval ships -
Sitzkrieg
Also known as the Phoney War lasted 8 months at the start of WWII on the Western front -
Congress Instituted the Draft
During WWI they had made a draft for people they needed to send to fight this made it easier to have troops for WWII -
France Fell to Germany
Germany air raided Belgium and Holland causing Britain and France to help. Britain surrendered leaving France and France unable to defend was taken -
Battle of Britain
Royal air forces had to defend the united kingdom from Germany air force -
Destroyers-for-Bases Deal
Germany had threaten Britain so Roosevelt had found a way to send people over their without disturbing the isolation in return building a military base in Britain island -
America First Committee launched
Created by interventionist who were against america entering the war -
Four Freedoms
Roosevelt gave a speech saying that you can have the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear -
Lend Lease
Provided U.S military aid to the foreign countries in WWII -
USS Kearny Attacked
German troops shot a missile into the ship splitting it into two but not sinking it making it to Iceland -
Reuben James Sank
U.S navy ship that was the first to be sunken due to WWII by German -
Japanese attack the Pearl Harbor
Japanese had planes fly over the harbor and bomb U.S navy sailors -
Manhattan Project Began
Project that had made nuclear weapons led by the U.S during WWII but Canada and the United Kingdom had supported -
Battle of Bataan
The Imperial Japan had invaded Philippines during the WWII in Bataan, Japan had won -
Bataan Death March
After surrendering t the Imperial Japan Filipinos and American troops had to walk 65 miles to a prison camp -
Battle of Coral Sea
One of the turning points, U.S aircraft stopped Japan naval from invading Australia -
Battle of Midway
The U.S being able to decode Japan codes enable the U.S to destroy 4 carriers and 300 planes -
Battle of El Alamein
Two battles were fought here during WWII. The British and Germany had fought in el Alamein Egypt -
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle between the Soviets and the Germans for the city Stalingrad in southern Russia -
Casablanca Conference
First conference with two of the big three countries. Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed to invade Sicily. -
Tehran Conference
The big three Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill had met in Iranian deciding that Britain and the U.S should invade France and the Soviet invade Germany -
FDR Elected to 4th term
Was the first and only president to serve 4 terms but did a couple days after being elected -
D-Day
U.S, Canada and Britain had surrounded Normandy and attacked making Germany surrender that land -
MacArthur returns to Philippines
U.S general that was forced to leave his country in 1942 was able to return in 1944 -
Battle of the bulge
The largest battle fought during the war by U.S army and in the western front of europe -
Yalta Conference
The big 3 met again in Yalta to talk about what to do with Germany after the European victory -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Largest marine corps the U.S landed on and had captured Iwo Jima from Imperial Japan -
Battle of Okinawa
Major battle fought between the U.S marine and army force against Imperial Japan army -
FDR DIes Truman becomes persident
Died in his vacation home, the people were shocked and Truman being the vice president had to enter the offices and -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day was the day the Nazi Germany surrendered their armed forces. -
Potsdam Conference
There Stalin being one of the original out of the big three left had met in Potsdam to make Japan surrender -
Little boy dropped on Hiroshima
Little boy was a codename used to cover the atomic bomb that was dropped on the city called Hiroshima in Japan -
Fat Man dropped on Nagaski
Got it's name from how big the bomb was and it's weight was dropped to make Japan surrender -
VJ Day
Victory in Japan where the Imperial Japan surrendered -
Nuremberg Trials
Allied forces went to the hearing of 22 Nazi criminals. 12 were sentenced to death -
Japanese War Crime Trial
Leaders of Empire of Japan trialed with a Class A for joint conspiracy to start
