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the core of international humanitarian law, which regulates the conduct of armed conflict and seeks to limit its effects.
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This act was passed to limit US involvement in future wars.
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were racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.
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the Japanese provoked the Chinese into full-scale war with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.
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was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany
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Russia and Germany agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years
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This was in response to Germany invading Poland 2 days earlier.
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Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov declares that the Polish government has ceased to exist, as the U.S.S.R. exercises the “fine print” of the Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression pact
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policy President Roosevelt announced at a joint session of the United States Congress. The "Cash and Carry" allowed the sale of military arms to belligerents on the same cash-and-carry basis.
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a method of warfare where the attacker spearheads an offence using a rapid overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry
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Soviet troops began occupying bases in Latvia while preparing for war with Finland. Soviet troops began the preparation for the invasion of the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.
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to secure the iron ore that shipped from Narvik. To capture Norway, the Germans had to control the port outside Aalborg in northern Jutland.
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intensified its raids against the ports in an attempt to draw the British air fleet out into the open.
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An Act to provide for the common defense by increasing the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and providing for its training.
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It created a defense alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan and was largely intended to deter the United States from entering the conflict.
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set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II.
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provided for military aid to any country whose defense was vital to the security of the United States.
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President Roosevelt ordered the banning of discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work
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President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.
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a military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States
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A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Axis powers during World War II. It entailed taking over an island and establishing a military base there.
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in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day.
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German U-boat attacks officially started against merchant ships along the Eastern Seaboard of North America.
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This order by President Roosevelt authorized the evacuation of all people deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
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the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were loaded onto trains.
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The U.S. Navy’s victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan’s hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific
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marked the culmination of the North African campaign between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army commanded in the field by Erwin Rommel in World War II.
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German troops occupy Vichy France, which had previously been free of an Axis military presence.
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Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. Allied airborne forces parachuted into drop zones across northern France.
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Hitler's aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany.
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legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, upheld the conviction of Fred Korematsu for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II.
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a Nazi concentration camp where more than a million people were murdered
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was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe
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It was the first major battle of World War II to take place on Japanese homeland. The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan.
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the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces
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was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.
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an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki
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it marked the end of World War Two.
