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Great depression
Stock markets crash and many people are left in debt, leaving the world in a huge economic crisis. -
Japan invasion
Japan invades and conquers Manchuria -
Neutrality Act
Americans could sell non-military items to England on a cash and carry basis. -
Munich Pact
Allowed Hitler to invade the Sudetenland if he promised to stop there, however he ended up breaking his promise later. -
Hitler invades again
Germany invades Poland which begins the war officially. -
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World War 2
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The Battle Of Britain
Germans attacked Britain via air raids by the German air force -
Lend Lease Act
FDR proposes to sell, lease, or lend, war materials to the nations that the U.S. was in alliance with (Great Britain.) -
U.S. cuts off Japan
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. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked the U.S. Naval base resulting in many deaths, injuries, and destroyed aircrafts and warships. -
Island Hopping
A campaign proposed by McArthur and Nimitz which's purpose is to retake lands that Japanese had Captured in the Pacific. -
Creation of the Atomic Bomb
FDR send scientists to New Mexico to develop the very first Atomic Bomb. The Manhattan project led by Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. -
Battle of Mid way
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.) -
Battle of Guadalcanal
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. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Marks a turning point in the war specifically for Germany as the result was 250,000 men being killed from their army. -
Invasion of Normandy (D-DAY)
When alliances invaded France by landing on a beach in Normandy. This marked the beginning of freeing Europe from Nazi's. -
Battle of the Bulge
A turning point in the war, allies were caught off guard by Germans. This was the Germans last offense on the Western front -
FDR passes
After DECIDING he wants to drop the bomb, FDR tragically passes right before Germany surrenders, and Harry Truman replaces him as president. -
VE DAY
German troops slowly began to surrender which meant the war was coming to an end. -
Dropping the Bomb
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the chosen cities to test thee first Atomic Bomb, resulting in both cities being destroyed and 230k casualties. -
Nuremburg Trials 45-46
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. -
Dividing Germany
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. -
Signing for Peace
peace treaties were signed between the allied powers and the axis of powers that had previously declared war with Germany.