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joseph stalin
leader of the ussr -
japan invades china
Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. -
Japan Invade Manchuria
They no longer wanted to rely heavily on the U.S for resources and decided Manchuria was ideal for a Japanese expansion since it was already fighting a civil war between nationalists, communists and warlords. -
holocaust
systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews including 1.5 million Jewish children in Europe by the Nazi regime and its collaborators -
Adlof hitler
leader of germany -
FDR begins his good neighbor policy
The policy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt toward Latin America. The policy reversed a previous attitude of interventionism in the internal affairs of Latin American nations. -
manhattan project
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. -
Benito Mussolini
becomes leader of itlay -
Congress passed Neutrality Acts
limit international involvement -
italy invades ethiopia
itlay took over ethiopia for more power -
kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. -
european appeasement of hitler
Appeasement expressed the widespread British desire to heal the wounds of World War I and to correct what many British officials regarded as the injustices of the Versailles Treaty. -
nazis developed the final solution
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. -
germany and russia
sign a nonaggression pact -
battle of atlantic
pitted U-boats and other warships of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) against the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, and Allied merchant shipping. -
cash and carry
The cash-and-carry policy was a WWII policy under Roosevelt. It allowed the sale of material to belligerent countries, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport and paid immediately in cash. -
germany began the blitzkrieg on poland
Blitzkrieg means "lightning war". Blitzkrieg was first used by the Germans in World War Two and was a tactic based on speed and surprise and needed a military force to be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry (foot soldiers). -
winston churchill
became prime minister of great britain -
navajo code talker
Native Americans who served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Their mission was to send and receive secret coded messages that the enemy could not understand. -
battle of britan
name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
tripartie
established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
4 freedoms
Four kinds of freedom mentioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech in 1941 as worth fighting for: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. -
lend lease act
the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war. the two-way transfer of ideas, styles, etc -
Atlantic Charter
joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. -
opa
originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
japanese attack on pearl harbor
surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
double v
The Double V was intended to accomplish two things: victory over the Axis powers abroad and victory over Jim Crow and racism at home. -
tuskegee airmen
first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. During World War II, African Americans in many U.S. states were still subject to the Jim Crow laws and the American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government. -
Japanese American internment
During World War II, the American government put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, fearing they might be loyal to Japan. -
Rosie the Riveter
cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplie -
bataan death march
the Bataan Death March was the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II. The 63-mile march began with 72,000* prisoners from the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines -
doolittle raids
first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese home islands during WWII. The mission is notable in that it was the only operation in which U.S. Army Air Forces bombers were launched from an aircraft carrier into combat. -
waac
member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the WAC) formed in 1942, now no longer a separate branch. -
battle of midway
A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor. -
Battle of Stalingrad
major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
operation torch
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
casablanca conference
10-day meeting during World War II between President Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain -
smith connally anti strike act
measure enacted by the U.S. Congress, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto, giving the president power to seize and operate privately owned war plants when an actual or threatened strike or lockout interfered with war ... -
tehran conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, -
d day
World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
macarthur return to philippines
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, MacArthur was in charge of US and Filipino forces in the Philippines -
battle of 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. -
yalta conference
planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe -
nuremberg trial
military tribunals held by the victorious Allied forces following World War II in which many Nazi leaders were prosecuted for war crimes. -
battle of iwo jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima, 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
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II -
FDR dies
passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
v-e day
Allied victory in Europe -
atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima
Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.” -
v-j day
Japan ceased fighting in World War II,
