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Stock markets crash and many people are left in debt, leaving the world in a huge economic crisis.
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Japan invades and conquers Manchuria
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Americans could sell non-military items to England on a cash and carry basis.
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Allowed Hitler to invade the Sudetenland if he promised to stop there, however he ended up breaking his promise later.
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Germany invades Poland which begins the war officially.
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Germans attacked Britain via air raids by the German air force
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FDR proposes to sell, lease, or lend, war materials to the nations that the U.S. was in alliance with (Great Britain.)
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Not long after Japan began invading parts of Asia, the U.S. cut off trade with Japan and froze their assets in the U.S.
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Japan attacked the U.S. Naval base resulting in many deaths, injuries, and destroyed aircrafts and warships.
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A campaign proposed by McArthur and Nimitz which's purpose is to retake lands that Japanese had Captured in the Pacific.
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FDR send scientists to New Mexico to develop the very first Atomic Bomb. The Manhattan project led by Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein.
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Was also considered a turning point. Japan had planned to lure the U.S. fleet into a battle near midway island in the pacific. The U.S. however had deciphered Japans code and plan gaining them an advantage allowing them to be better prepared. (The U.S. won.)
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A major turning point for U.S. and Japan, this battle was the U.S.'s first time since declaring to be part of the war that THEY attacked the Japanese and it lasted 6 months.
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Marks a turning point in the war specifically for Germany as the result was 250,000 men being killed from their army.
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When alliances invaded France by landing on a beach in Normandy. This marked the beginning of freeing Europe from Nazi's.
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A turning point in the war, allies were caught off guard by Germans. This was the Germans last offense on the Western front
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After DECIDING he wants to drop the bomb, FDR tragically passes right before Germany surrenders, and Harry Truman replaces him as president.
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German troops slowly began to surrender which meant the war was coming to an end.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the chosen cities to test thee first Atomic Bomb, resulting in both cities being destroyed and 230k casualties.
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Freedom from concentration camps in Europe showed the extents of Nazi brutality. This led to the Nazi leaders being put on trial for Crime Against Humanity.
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After the war Germany was now divided into four different zones by authority of U.S.A., Britain, France, and the U.S.S.R.
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peace treaties were signed between the allied powers and the axis of powers that had previously declared war with Germany.