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The Great Depression Begins
-Stock prices drop sharply
-Many people sold their stocks to avoid going bankrup
-Many European countries had borrowed money fron the US banks to rebuild after the World War 1, so Europe's economy failed when Americas did -
Japan Conquers Manchuria in Norther China
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Japan Invades China
-The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began
-The invasion ended on February 27, 1932
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Hitler Becoms Chancellor of Germany
-His plan was to do away with politics and make Germany powerful so he began ordering an expansion state police
-He put Hermann Goering in charge of a new security force, which was all Nzis, to stamp down anyone who had anything against his group/party -
Roosevelt First Elected President
-32nd president
-He pormised the US that he would help the economy -
Germna air force bombs london and other civilian targets in the Battle of Britain
- Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force -Luftwaffe was founded in 1935 and led by Hermann Goering, which becane the largest and most powerful in Europe byt he start of WW2 -Luftwaffe was an arieal warfare branch of the Germans, and it was created because the previous air force had been canned by the Treaty of Versailles
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Nuremberg Laws
- Excluded Jews from German life and took away some of their rights like German citizenship from Jews (Reichsbergesetz) forbade marriage or sexual relationship between Jews and those with German blood (Blutschutzgesetz)
- {rohibitedthe employment of German maids under the age of 45 in Jewish households, Jewish weren't allowed to raise the German flag, they weren't allowed to vote, hold public offices or seek medical attention becuase they weren't considered citizens
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Hitler and Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis
- Germany supplied the rebels with aeroplanes, tanks, technicians, the troops of Condor Legion, and an air force unit during the Spanish-Civil War
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Anti-Comintern Pact
- Japan and Germany sign it
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Hitler: Commander in chief of the Armed Forces
- because the current Generals didn't agree with himt hat they should attack Czechoslovakia
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Germany invades Austria
-Hitler entered Vienna in triumph
-Schuschnigg resigned because Hitler wanted him to do some things and he couldn't/it was too much pressure
-Schuschnigg was arrested and imprisoned -
Britain's appeasment of Germany
- The Munich agreement
- Germany would gain control of the Sudetenland and Hitler promised to stop seeking more territory
- Churchill warned that Hitler wouldn't stop with just Sudentenland
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Kristallnacht (picture)
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Kristallnacht
-AKA the "Night of Crystal" but also referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass"
-a wave of violent Jewish pogroms
(the link is the picture, because you can't put pictures in timespans)
-Destroyed Jewish owned homes and businesses, and destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany -
Germany and Soviet Union have a nonaggression pact
-Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
-Guarenteed that the two countries wouldn't attack each other
-from signing the pact, Germany had protected itsself from fighting on two fronts -
Germany invades Poland
- More than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes broke throught Polish defenses along the border
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Britain and France declared war on Germany
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Rosie the Riveter
-A character who symbolized women in manufacturing jobs
-Inspired other women to go out and help work and get out of the kitchen
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The Nazi's implement the "Final Solution"
-This was the Germans "code word" of exterminating or getting rid of all of the Jewish people in Germany
-The Germans didn't want the people to think that they were trying to kill them so they came up with a code word that would disguise what they were really doing which was "Final Solution" -
The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland
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The Warsaw surrendered to Germans
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Manhattan Project
-The US's plan to build and design an atomic bomb
-Einstein sent a letter to the President telling him about Germany's inventions and that we needed something to compete
-employeed over 120,000 Americans and cost almost 2 billion dollars on research and development -
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Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France
-Denmark surrenders the day of the attack
-Norway holds out until June 9th
-German forces were able to lsip through the mines Brtain has laid around Norwegian ports -
Japan Joins the Axis Powers
- Japan, Germany and Itlay signed the Tripartite Pact which was later known as the Axis alliance
- November 25, 1936 Japan and Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact
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Lend-lease act
-Law that strted a program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the USSR, republic of China, France, and other allied nations
-Effectivly ended the United States pretense of neutrality -
Tuskagee Airmen
-African Americans were denied military leadership roles and skilled training becuas many believed that they lacked qualifications for combat duty
-Civil rights organizations and the black press exerted pressure that resulted in the formation of an all African-American pursuit squadron -
Germnay invades the Soviet Union
German-SOviet nonaggression pact signed on August 23, 1939 -
Pearl Harbor
-The Japanese launched a surprise attakc on America and after the first 2 hours of the attack, over 2,400 Americans were killed
-21 American ships had either been sunk or damaged, and over 188 US aircrafts had been destroyed
-This is when the US joined the Pacific War -
Japanese-American incarceration
-110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the US were taken
-ahortly after the atack on Pearl Harbor
-they were put into little villages that were "cut-off" from the outside world -
Bataan Death March
-Began with 72,000 prisoners from the southern end of Bataan Peninsula
-There were about 7,000 to 10,000 deaths along the way because of the bad conditions
-The prisoners were to be marched 55 miles to San Fernando, then have their final destination of Camp O'Donnel by train and a little more walking -
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Battle of Midway
-Most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of WW 2
- 6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor
-Defeated an impearial Japanese army -
British forces stop the German advance at El Alamein
-Western desert campaign
-fought on the Northern coast of Egypt -
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Guadalcanal
-First marine division landed on August 7, 1942 to seize Guadalcanal
-February 8, 1943 Japan completed a stealthy evacuation of their surviving ground troops in the early hours of the day -
Controlled Nuclear Chain reaction
-Fermi led it
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German forces surrender at Stalingrad
-The battle began in the summer of 1942
-Germany was losing so they had to surrender -
D-Day
-Beaches: Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword and Utah
-allied troops suffered more than 10,000 casualties, British and Canadian forces suffereed about 3,700 casualties, US forces had 6,600 casualties, German defenders had between 4,000 to 9,000 casualties -
Allied troops broke out over the beachhead or Normandy and began to pour into northern France
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US troops reached the border of Germany
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Battle of the Bulge
-200,000 Germans and about 1,000 tanks -
Poland remained under German occupation until
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Yalta Conference
-Took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea
-During WW 2
-US President FDR, British Prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premiet=r Joseph Stalin were at the conference -
Iwo Jima (picture)
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Iwo Jima
-The mission was also known as Operation Detachment
-on the morning of march 26, the island was won over -
Japanese final attack
300-man counter attack -
Okinawa (picture)
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Okinawa
-the battle had been reffered to as "the typhoon of steel"
-Japan lost over 100,000 soldiers and the allies lost 65,000 soldiers but they allies still won -
Roosevelt dies, Truman becoms president
-Died of cerebral hemorrhage
- the longest serving president in American history -
allied forces advance on berlin (picture)
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Allied forces advance to Berlin, Germany surrenders
-When the allied forces reached Berlin they found out about the Holocaust
-Hitler committed suicide because he knew the war was coming to an end -
Testing the atomic bomb
-broke windows 100 miles away
-mushrooom cloud over head -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
-Equivalent to 15,000 tons fo TNT
-Immediatly killed about 8,000 people
-tens of thousands more died in the following weeks -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
-equivalent to 22,000 tons of TNT
-it was dropped at 11:02am and was 1,650 feet above the city for maximum damage
-immediatly killed 6,00 to 8,00 people -
Japanese officials sign an official letter of surrender on the USS Missouri, ending WW2
