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Pan-American Conference
The Pan-American conference's main goal was to improve economic and political relations between participants. -
WEimar REpublic eztablished in Germany
he German government during the Weimar Republic era did not respect the Treaty of Versailles that it had been pressured to sign, and various government figures at the time rejected Germany's post-Versailles borders. -
5 Power Treaty
The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, was a treaty among the major nations that had won World War I, which by the terms of the treaty agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction. -
4 Power Treaty
The Four-Power Treaty was a treaty signed by the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference on 13 December 1921. -
9 Power Treaty
The Nine-Power Treaty was a treaty affirming the sovereignty of China as per the Open Door Policy signed by all of the attendees of United of States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal. -
Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan was an attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. -
Hitler becmoes leader of Nazi Party
Hitler declares the reformulation of the Nazi Party with himself as leader. He makes the declaration at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, the beer hall where he led his aborted coup against the democratically elected government in 1923. -
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
Mein Kamf means my struggle, in the book he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany -
Hirohito became the emperor of Japan
Hirohito, referred to as Emperor Shōwa in Japan, was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact Signed
The Kellogg–Briand Pact is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts. -
Joseph Stlain became the Leader of the USSR
Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. -
Stock MArket Crasjed in U.S.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 19, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Stimson Doctrine
The Stimson Doctrine is a policy of the United States federal government, enunciated in a note of January 7, 1932, to Japan and China, of non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force. -
Hitler became chancellor of germany
A charismatic speaker, Hitler channeled popular discontent with the post-war Weimar government into support for his Nazi party. In an election held in July 1932, the Nazis won 230 governmental seats; together with the Communists, the next largest party, they made up over half of the Reichstag. -
Beggining of Holocaust
In addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered. -
Good Neighbor Policy
The Good Neighbor policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. -
FDR becomes president
Serving from March 1933 to his death in April 1945, he was elected for four consecutive terms, and remains the only president ever to serve more than eight years. -
New Deal Started
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. They involved laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression. -
London Economic Conference
The London Economic Conference was a meeting of representatives of 66 nations at the Geological Museum in London. Its purpose was to win agreement on measures to fight global depression, revive international trade, and stabilize currency exchange rates. -
U.S. formally recognized the Soviet Union
On November 16, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt ended almost 16 years of American non-recognition of the Soviet Union following a series of negotiations in Washington, D.C. with the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinov. -
Reciprocal Trade Agreement
This act not only gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the authority to adjust tariff rates, but also the power to negotiate bilateral trade agreements without receiving prior congressional approval. -
TYdings-McDuffie Act
The Tydings–McDuffie Act was a United States federal law which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years. It also established strict limitations on Filipino immigration. -
Adolf Hitler Defied the Treaty of Versailles
In 1934, he destroyed the League of Nations Disarmament Conference by demanding equality of arms with France and Britain – this broke the Treaty because it had set up the League with the stated aim of achieving disarmament. -
Germany reoccupied the rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
Francisco Franco Led a Fascist Revolt in Spain
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans and the NationalistsThe Nationalists prevailed, and Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from 1939 until his death in 1975. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
The Second Italo–Ethiopian War was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
It was an agreement formulated by Italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries. -
Nuetrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Japan Invaded China
The Japanese invaded China proper, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Quarantine Speech
e Quarantine Speech was given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it called for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality that was prevalent at the time. -
Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period, tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants were murdered by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Anschluss
The Anschluss at the time of the event, and until the German orthography reform of 1996; German for "connection" or union, political annexation also known as the Anschluss Österreichs, was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. -
Hitler hosted Munich conference
The Munich Conferencewas a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe, without the presence of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht was a series of attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria while german authorities looked on without intervention. -
Hitler took Czechoslavokia
Hitler's forcesd the invasoin and occupying of Czechoslovakia--a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was an attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims. -
Hitler took sudetenland
Until Adolf Hitler came to power most Sudenten Germans were content to remain in Czechoslovakia but in 1935 a Sudten-German Party, financed from within Nazi Germany, began to complain that the Czech-dominated government discriminated against them. -
Hitler took the Sudetenland
The Sudetenland refers to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited mostly by German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed
On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Germany invaded Poland
Germany invading Poland was the start of World War 2. -
Sitzkrieg Began
The Sitzkrieg was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German.The phase covered the months following Britain and France's declaration of war on Germany (shortly after the invasion of Poland) in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940. -
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of GB
Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. -
Allies evacuate Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France. The operation became necessary when large numbers of British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France in World War II. -
Destroyers for Bases Deal
In the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom on September 2 1940, fifty mothballed destroyers were transferred to the United Kingdom from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. -
Tripartite Pact Signed
The Tripartite Pact was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Election of 1940
The United States presidential election of 1940 was the 39th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. The election was fought in the shadow of World War II in Europe, as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt broke with tradition and ran for a third term, and won. -
Four Freedoms
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease policywas a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Free France, the Republic of China, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945. -
Operation Barborossa
Operation Barbarossa beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. -
Shoot-on-sight orders
On September 11, 1941 President Roosevelt issued an order to the U.S. Navy to shoot German or Italian warships in the west Atlantic on sight. -
Aushwitz Death Camps Opened
The Auschwitz complex was divided in three major camps: Auschwitz I main camp or Stammlager; Auschwitz II, or Birkenau; Auschwitz III or Monowitz, as an 'Arbeitslager' or work camp. -
Manhatten Project Began
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
The U.S. declared war on Japan
After receiving the news about the Pearl Harbor attack, Roosevelt met with his military advisers and, after that, wrote a first draft of the declaration of war on Japan request to the Congress. -
Washington Conference
At the first washington conference Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt and their aides had conversations that led to a series of major decisions that shape the war effort. -
office of pride administration
The Office of Price Administration was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government to functions of the OPA were originally to control money and rents after the outbreak of World War II -
War Production Board
The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established it. The WPB replaced the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board and the Office of Production Management. -
Hitler enacted the Final Solution
The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. -
Double V
The Double V Campaign was a motivational tool used to propose two changes - one was to allow African Americans to fight in the war, and the other was to allow African Americans to be equal in society. -
Nisei were Interned in Relocation Centers in the U.S.
Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.[ -
MacArthur's "I Shall Return" Speech
Deeply disappointed, he issued a statement to the press in which he promised his men and the people of the Philippines, "I shall return." The promise would become his mantra during the next two and a half years, and he would repeat it often in public appearances -
Bataan Death march
The Bataan Death March which began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
Doolittle Raids over Japan
The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on 18 April 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. -
Battle of El Alamein
There were two battles of El Alamein in World War II, both fought in 1942.The Battles occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein. -
Casablanca Conference
The Casablanca Conference was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Rosie the Riviter
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II -
Island Hopping Campaign
Islandhopping was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. The idea was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan. -
Smith-Connally Anti-STrike ACt
The Smith–Connally Act was an American law passed on June 25, 1943, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto. The legislation was hurriedly created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significantly lowered due to high wartime inflation, struck for a $2-a-day wage increase. -
Allies Land in Sicily
The Allies begin their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. Encountering little resistance from the demoralized Sicilian troops, the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery came ashore on the southeast of the island, while the U.S. 7th Army under General George S. Patton landed on Sicily's south coast. -
Tehran conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders. -
Operation Overload (D Day)
Te battle began on June 6, 1944 when156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
Vichy Government Established in France
Vichy France, officially the French State, was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France to the Allied liberation in August 1944 -
Kamikaze Pilots Appear in the Pacific
Kamikaze was suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks. -
Mcarthur returns to Philippines
After advancing island by island across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
FDR's 4th term
On January 20, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only president to be elected to three terms in office, is inaugurated to his fourth term. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
he Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February – 26 March 1945, or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Battle of Okinawa
he Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg,[4] was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.[5][6] The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. -
Mussolini was Executed
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. -
Hitler committed suicide
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.[a][b][c] His wife Eva (née Braun) committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide -
Germany Surrendered
The German Instrument of Surrender ended World War II in Europe. It was signed by representatives of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and the Allied Expeditionary Force together with the Soviet High Command, French representative signing as witness on 7 May, and signed again by representatives of the three armed services, -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces;It marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Cost-Plus System
A government contract to pay a manufacturer the cost to produce and item. -
United Nations Charter
The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. t -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
A second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. -
V-J Day
ictory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II; the term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan’s surrender was made. -
Japan Surrendered
The surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of World War II to a close. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg. -
Washington's Naval Conference
The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding.
