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Yalta Conference
Churchill, FDR, Stalin - Final plans for the defeat of Europe & began a discussion of post-war European Plans -
Japan invades Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 started Japanese aggression against China & Indochina the US response to Japanese aggression, limited by isolationist policies, was limited to imposing trade restrictions, such as embargoes on gas and iron. This was important because it started the reason why japan didn't like the US in the beginning. -
Munich Pac
Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to take more land, in exchange for Hitler’s agreement to seek no more territory after that concession this later didn't end well because Hitler was a jerk and broke the back and that led to Britain and France declaring war a Germany -
Kristallnacht
night of broken glass” (November 9 to November 10, 1938)
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews -
Germany invades Poland
led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany. this was important because it set the scene for the war because it put the united states in a position of where they were going to war because of there alliances with the other countries -
Neutrality Acts of 1939
FDR’s attempts to change American policy from isolationism to international involvement led to evolving, more involved policies:
ash and Carry (Neutrality Acts of 1939) allowed nations at war to buy goods from the US if they paid cash upfront -
Exec Order 9066
executive Order 9066 which authorized the internment of Americans of Japanese descent and resident aliens from Japan. this was important because it led to the court case of Japanese Americans vs the us -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947) pledged to contain communism it was important because it established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Exec Order 8022
World War II required the total mobilization of the American economy, government, & society government managed the economy -
Atlantic Charter
The process of changing from peacetime to wartime economy in the US began even before the US war, FDR & British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter and It endorsed self-determination and an international system of general security. it showed FDR’s commitment to opposing German and Japanese aggression -
Atlantic Conference
alliance strengthened between US & Great Britain by signing the Atlantic Charter -
Lend-Lease Act
This is where the US lend weapons and other things to Britain and France to help out in the war but still remain out of the war and FDR found it necessary in the interest of the defense of the United States -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attack in response to the US embargoes it saw the US Pacific fleet as a threat to its growing empire
2400 Americans killed, 1300 wounded
19 US ships sunk or damage “a date which will live in infamy, this is important because it literally leads to us entering the war -
Battle of Midway
U.S. strategy: island-hopping get close enough to the Japanese home islands to launch air attacks in preparation for an invasion Victory at Midway stopped the Japanese advance the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific -
Operation Torch
the invasion of North Africa was launched to free the Mediterranean Sea from German control and protect the oil fields in the Middle East Soviet’s fierce resistance to the Germans at Stalingrad turned the tide on the eastern front -
D-Day
The invasion of Normandy on D-Day finally provided the long-awaited western front Germany was now engaged on 3 fronts D-Day military invasion that helped to end World War II was one the most ambitious and consequential military campaigns in human history. -
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive and the beginning of the end for the Nazis this was important Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes region of Belgium was Adolf Hitler's last major offensive in World War II against the Western Front -
Korematsu v. United States
Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American who refused to leave his home per the Exec. Order (9066) issued in regards to Japanese Americans and resident aliens He took his case to the Supreme Court and He took his case to the Supreme Court it was important because it showed another form of segregation in the us -
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima (Aug 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (Aug 9. 1945) to prevent the necessity for landing and fighting on the Japanese home islands (which would result in too many American lives lost) this marked the actual end of the war all alix powers feel -
United Nations is created
The US played a key role in helping to organize and start the United Nations intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order (UN created Oct 24, 1945) it was important to maintaining international peace and security -
Nuremberg Trials
other Nazi officers and civilians were charged with crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (Nov 20, 1945- Oct 1, 1946) the importance justice is carried out for war crimes on both the international and state levels -
Marshall Plan
The US offered financial aid [Marshall Plan] to promote economic rebuilding and prevent the fall of European countries to communism. it was important because it put effort to stimulate economic growth in a despondent and nearly bankrupt post-World War II Europe, to prevent the spread of communism beyond the iron curtain. -
Israel is established
demonstrates the impact of German war crimes on the conscience of the US & the world. The US supported the self-determination of the Jewish people with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel -
Berlin Airlift
The US supplied the people of Berlin with food, water, and other supplies via airdrops. importances were to get up under the soviets skin because neither one of them were going to fight -
US establishes NATO
US established NATO a military alliance aimed at the Soviet Union organized the Warsaw Pact. its importances was to provide collective security against the Soviet Union -
Soviet Union tests Atomic Bomb
The Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb - Aug 29, 1949
this led the United States to accelerate the development of the hydrogen bomb and began a nuclear arms race. this lets them have an n arms race with is a weapon race -
Korean Conflict (War)
Formal peace negotiations ended with North Korean forces contained above the 38th parallel, a victory for containment, development in the Cold War because it was the first time that the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, had fought a 'proxy war ' in a third country -
Soviet Union launches Sputnik
space race took off when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik result the US Congress passed the National Defense Education Act -
National Defense Education Act
The prosperity of the 1950s allowed young people to stay in school longer, at least through high school, Created a more educated workforce -
Rise of the Berlin Wall
Germany was divided after World War II into East (Soviet zone) and West (Allied zones)Berlin Wall (const. began Aug 13, 1961), which became a symbol of the Cold War to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state and it served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Dec 24, 1979, US-supported Afghan resistance movement US-supported the Afghan resistance movement -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Changes in the Soviet Union
The strain of the arms race and Afghan war on the Soviet economy
Movement for liberation in Eastern Europe
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 considered to be the end of the Cold War The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991