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1299
Ottoman Turkey
the Ottoman Empire was founded in Anatolia -
1453
Ottoman Turkey
Became a larger empire after the conquest of Constantinople -
1500
Armenia
Taken over by the Ottomans -
The Monroe Doctrine
sought to isolate -
Adolf Hitler’s Early Life
Hitler was born -
Adolf Hitler’s Early Life
began a movement based on the fictional narrative that Germans
were the master race. -
Young Turks
takeover Ultra nationalist group -
The Great Wall
the Monroe Doctrine is shown as a protective shield -
Young Turks government
Young Turks join WWI on the side of Germany and are defeated -
Period: to
The First World War
War involving over 30 different countries -
Blockades
Germany told Americans to stay off British ships, as they could and would sink them. -
Armenians died
1,000,000 Armenians dies -
Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide
2+ million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire -
Period: to
The Armenian Genocide
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Young Turks government
250 Armenian community, political, religious, educational, leaders were rounded up in the middle of the night in Istanbul, shot and killed -
Blockades
HMS Renown seen from another British warship -
Allies
United States -
Russia
Russia left the war after its communist revolution -
Enforcing Loyalty
Espionage Act -
New York Journal
announcing the declaration of war -
Enforcing Loyalty
Sedition Act -
Hitler and Early Politics
Hitler helped form the National Socialist German Workers’ Party -
Worldwide Economic Depression
helped sustain worldwide trade. -
American Isolationism
The failure of peace efforts such as the Kellogg Briand Treaty -
Turkey Armenians
nearly the entire population of Armenians in Turkey had been extinguished -
Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide
only about 200,000 could be officially accounted -
Hitler and Early Politics
Beer Hall Putsch (‘pooch’) -
Mein Kampf
Hitler wrote Mein Kampf -
Period: to
Mein Kampf
The book sold/distributed 10 million copies -
Worldwide Economic Depression
stock market crash in the U.S. and the resulting Great Depression spread throughout the world. U.S. -
Anti-Communism
saw the rise of many totalitarian regimes -
American Isolationism
The U.S. was in a major depression -
Japanese Expansionism
Japan invaded Manchuria for raw materials. -
Hitler’s Rise to Power
the Nazi Party was the biggest political party and held 230 seats. -
Hitler’s Rise to Power
the Reichstag (parliament) was burned to the ground. -
The Enabling Act
Hitler proposed the Enabling Act, which would essentially give him a dictatorship – and it passed! -
Anti-Communism
Hitler exploited people’s fear of a communist takeover in Germany -
Hitler Secures Absolute Power
Hitler’s cabinet passed a law proclaiming the presidency to him -
The Nazi Party
they had over five million members in the organization. -
Japanese Expansionism
Japan began to attack China -
Appeasement
Hitler demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the Sudetenland to germany. -
Japanese Expansionism
war broke out between Japan and the Soviet Union -
The Race for the Atom Bomb Around the World
Germany started experimenting with Nuclear Fission -
Adolf Hitler
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” -
Defeat in France
the German armies defeated France in 6 weeks and forced the British to evacuate their troops -
Air Assault on Britain
German air attacks in British air bases -
Period: to
German Vengeance
a million homes in Britain were damaged by bombs and rockets -
Operation Barbarossa & More Genocide
Hitler’s plan for defeating Russia -
Russia Invaded
Germans invaded Russia -
Japan controls the Pacific
Japan attacks various Pacific locations -
Period: to
Einsatzgruppen
murdered over 1 million Jews, communist party members and other “undesirables” in Russia -
PEARL HARBOR
The U.S. joined World War II -
Death Camps
the Nazis employed their knowledge of poison gas to speed up the murder of some 5 million Jews -
Japanese
Japanese were gaining land all over Pacific Ocean. -
The Navajo Language
Americans win first major LAND victory on the island of Guadalcanal. -
The Creation of the Bomb
atomic-bomb project was controlled by War Department's Army Corps of Engineers. -
The Hitler State
was beheaded on -
Stalin Moves West
Red Army approached, Polish -
Americans Retake the Philippines
American returned to the Philippines -
End in Europe
The war ended in Europe -
Postwar Europe and American Leadership
US played major part in occupying Germany -
Interim Committee
meeting was held with Stimson -
Period: to
Postwar Europe and American Leadership
US “containment” policy is the key strategy in the Cold War -
City of Death
Soviet Union declined