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Japan invades Manchuria
Goal was to get their resources and use them. It works and they start to expand. -
Neutrality Act
The US is not going to take sides, it will remain neutral in the war. -
Mussolini invades Ethiopia
After decades of fighting, Italy invades Ethiopia. They ask the League Of Nations for help but recieve nothing. -
Militarizing the Rhineland
Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by sending German troops into the Rhineland. Nobody did anything about it, which made Hitler grow stronger -
Cash and Carry Policy
Where anyone can come to the US and get weapons but they had to pay cash. -
Quarantine Speech
FDR gave this speech saying that its going to "spread like a disease" -
Kristallnacht "the night of broken glass"
Thousands of Jewish businesses and synagogues were damaged. -
Official Start of WWII
The invasion of Poland by German forces marks the official start of WWII -
Lend/Lease Act
You no longer have to pay right away, we'll lend the weapons to the Allies and they can pay back later -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler ignores the Nonaggression Act and invades the Soviet Union. -
Atlantic Charter
President Roosevelt and Churchill meet and talk about what they're goals were in the war. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanesse bomb the US Pearl Harbor. -
The Doolittle Raid
American bombers attacked Tokyo, didn't do major damage though, just enough to celebrate. -
Battle of MIdway
The Americans broke the Japanesse code and found out what they were going to do so the Americans made up a counter-attack and fough back. Americans won, -
Guadalcanal
Americans were on the offensive side. Japanesse don't surrender because they "fight to the end!"It's long and lasts 6 months. -
Stalingrad
Lasted until January of 1943. Is when the Axis Powers got trapped anl 200,000 of them died. The other 50,000 surrendered. -
Operation Torch
The beginning of the invasion of North Africa, first time Americans see combat. -
Invasion of Sicily
The Allies invade Sicily Italy and take over -
Doomsday
Americans arrive in France to fight against the German forces -
FDR wins election
President FDR goes for fourth term and wins. -
Battle of the Bulge
Last German offensive on the western front. -
Yalta Conference
Leaders Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill meet to plan for postwar peace -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Island south of Tokyo that the US attacked, and won. -
Ve Day
Victory in Europe, a day lots of people celebrated. Also the ending of the Holocaust -
Hiroshima Bombing
Americans bomb Hiroshima, Japan and kill 80,000 people -
Surrender of Japan
Japan surrenders; signing the "Instruments of Surrender"
