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The Italian King Victor Emmanuel III dissolved Parliament amidst growing violence and chaos.Benito Mussolini coined the term “fascism” in 1919 to describe his political movement.Mussolini took a seat as a deputy in Parliament.
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American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during World War II, as widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force.
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When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria. Japan turned to Manchuria for oil, rubber and lumber in order to make up for the lack of resources in Japan.Japan had invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations.
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Hitler came to power and turned Germany into a dictatorship.One factor of the Nazi Party’s rise to power was propaganda.
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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.
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This agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. The settlement reached Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy and permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. Kristallnacht was also called the “Night of Broken Glass. Kristallnacht was an incident.
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The 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
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German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun.The campaigns ended in early October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.
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The Battle of France began in 1940 and consisted of two operations. The first one was Case Yellow or Fall Gelb and is when the armored units of Germany cut off allied units which had advanced into the country of Belgium at the Ardennes.
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3NncyV02IQ
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The approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. https://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/70565/bataan-death-march-marine-corps-survivor-irvin-scott/
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The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast ends as German forces capture the beach port. The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success
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Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, which became known as the Axis alliance. Even before the Tripartite Pact, two of the three Axis powers had initiated conflicts that would become theaters of war in World War II.
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The United States presidential election of 1940 was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. The election was fought in the shadow of World War II in Europe, as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression.
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Lend-Lease Act was the means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States..
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Six months before the Battle of Midway, the islands were attacked on December 7, 1941, less than two hours after Pearl Harbor. https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2018/06/the_battle_of_midway_the_turni.html
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The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. https://www.doi.gov/video/remembering-pearl-harbor
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The relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II was one of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history
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On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Was the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines, during World War II.
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The 1944 United States presidential election was the 40th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took place during World War II. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term.
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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
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.
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Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945
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The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities. MacArthur invited the Japanese representatives to sign the instrument of surrender, which included the clear statement: “We hereby proclaim the unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and of all Japanese armed forces and all armed.
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The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II
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The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ8WMgM0GEA
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On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
