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this treaty ended world war 1 but built up for world war 2 by forcing Germany to pay many reparations and forcing them to have limited military -
japan invades the Manchuria region of China and surrounding areas with not punishment from the league of nations -
the Holocaust was a combination of the systematic imprisoning of Jews and other races and political and groups and the systematic killing of these people over time this lasted for 12 years and ended in 1945 -
Italy invades Ethiopia with weak sanctions and basically no backlash from the league of nations they kept Ethiopia -
Germany directly breaks the agreements they made to re-militarize their border but the league of nations does nothing -
Germany annexes Austria with no resistance -
FDR called a meeting between nations of the time to decide what to do with Jewish refugees most showed sympathy but did not act -
Britain and France gave Hitler Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia in an attempt to appease him -
a bill proposing the allowance of 20,000 Jewish children outside of the immigration quotas to protect from Nazi beliefs the bill was never passed and failed in congress -
a ship containing 930 plus Jewish refugees was rejected entry to multiple countries and ultimately sent back to Europe where 250 of the 900 were killed in the Holocaust -
Hitler and Stalin decide not to fight and secretly divide Poland evenly -
world war 2 officially begins when Britain and France declare war on Germany during the invasion of Poland -
German u-boats tries to stop British supplies by sinking supply ships -
this act allowed nations at war to purchase goods from the US this helped great Britain and later the Soviet union -
the "lightning war" they basically just destroy a bunch of countries extremely quickly and take them over including Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, France -
a German bombing campaign across great Britain the RAF does win in the end -
America gave Britain 50 destroyers to gain access of some of their bases -
this act allowed the US to provide military and other aid to allied nations vital to its own defense -
when FDR and Winston Churchill met and declared their shared principles -
the first attack on US soil it was done by Japan and forced America into war -
Japan hoped to cut off Australia by taking port Moresby but the United States arrived and won the battle and protected the port of Moresby saving Australia -
Japan tries to lure American carriers to ambush but the US picks of their radio communication and ambushes them instead -
a organization created to aid Holocaust victims -
this was the operation led by the US that leads to the destruction of Nazi Germany -
the goal was to liberate the Philippines and cut off Japans oil supply this was led by general MacArthur and was a success -
the last German counter assault it failed a directly led to Hitler committing suicide -
this battle was not on Okinawa but instead Iwo Jima in an attempt to create a base for future invasion of Japanese main land however due to the difficulty during the taking of Iwo Jima we decided to drop nuclear weapons to force the Japanese to surrender -
the liberation of the concentration camp named Buchenwald -
with the help of the US the supply lines are secured around 1943 but the battle of the Atlantic does not end until 1945 -
a bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay, a b-52 bomber. this bomb was the little boy created in the Manhattan project and killed 110,000 and injured another 110,000 -
the second atomic bomb dropped made during the Manhattan project as well Fat Man killed 25,000 and injured or mad missing another 55,000. this bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki -
the day of the formal surrender agreement ending the war in the Pacific -
the United nations is exactly what it sounds like it is a organization of nations to decide on things like war crimes and guide lines for countries -
the trial of Nazi officials and people who did atrocities in the war 22 major leaders were put on trial -
the Truman doctrine established that the United States would provide military and economic assistance to "free peoples" resisting subjugation by internal or external threats -
a U.S. program built to aid in the rebuild of eastern Europe -
a declaration by the UN to establish a standard for the protection of human rights -
NATO stands for north Atlantic treaty organization is basically a defense pack between many nations throughout the world