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It was a military conference about interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia
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It was established to replace the imperial form of government with the parlimentary republic/
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As soon as he became chancellor, Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich.
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It was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding, and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922.
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It was a treaty among the major nations that had won World War I, which by the terms of the treaty agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction.
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By the Four-Power Treaty, all parties agreement to maintain the status quo in the Pacific, by respecting the Pacific holdings of the other countries signing the agreement, not seeking further territorial expansion, and mutual consultation with each other in the event of a dispute over territorial possessions.
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It was a treaty stating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China as per the Open Door Policy,
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Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism.
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The new reparation plan proposed by the Dawes Committee on April 9, 1924, and accepted by the Allied and German Governments on August 30, 1924.
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It is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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He was the 124th Emperor of Japan.
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He became the leader after the death of Vladimir Lenin; however, his actual dictatorship began after he became the undisputed leader of Russia when banned all private businesses, eliminated opposition, and started a campaign killing millions of countrymen.
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iIt is an international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them
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It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, and it ultimately led to the Great Depression. (It wasn;t the only reason, other factors contributed)
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On this day in 1945, the Soviet Union officially declares war on Japan, pouring more than 1 million Soviet soldiers into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, northeastern China, to take on the 700,000-strong Japanese army.
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Serving from March 1933 to his death in April 1945, he was elected for four consecutive terms, and remains the only president ever to serve more than eight years.
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He was elected for four consecutive terms, and remains the only president ever to serve more than eight years; at that time, he was a central figure in world.
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The Good Neighbor policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States, it warned the world not to intefere in Latin America. (This was introduced through the monroe doctrine years earlier)
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lt was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
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It was a meeting of representatives of 66 nations in order to win agreement on measures to fight global depression, revive international trade, and stabilize currency exchange rates.
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The surprise bombing raids began on Poland, and it air force was destroyed.
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On November 16, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt ended almost 16 years of American non-recognition of the Soviet Union following a series of negotiations in Washington, D.C. with the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinov.
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The first Pan American conference held in 1889 in Washington D.C. aimed at improving economic and political relations the United States and Latin American countries. The conference was not successful in resolving the issues.
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It was a United States federal law which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years.
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For the first time granting the President its traditional power to levy tariffs; the act not only gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the authority to adjust tariff rates, but also the power to negotiate bilateral trade agreements without receiving prior congressional approval.
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He increased the navy well above the maximum allowed by the treaty, and established the Luftwaffe or German Air Force in defiance of the treaty, and he re-militarized the Rhineland in 1936.
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This Neutrality Act mposed a general embargo on trading arms and war materials with all parties in a war. It also declared that American citizens travelling on warring ships travelled at their own risk. The act was set to expire after six months.
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They were a series of Acts passed in the 1930's to retain hold of America's policy of isolationism while other countries were building alliances and prompting war.
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The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia, and exposed the inherent weakness of the League of Nations.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violated the Treaty of Versaillesby sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
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The coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany, made an agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries
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This was a policy the United States federal government made to declare to Japan and China, that we weren't going to recognize international territorial changes that were executed by force.
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The war was fought because of the Japanese imperialist policy targeting to dominate China politically, militarily, and to secure its raw material and other economic resources.
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The Quarantine Speech was given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Chicago, calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time; the speech intensified America's isolationist mood, causing protest by non-interventionists and foes to intervene.
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It was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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It was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.
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It was a settlement that let Nazi Germany's taking control of portions of Czechoslovakia for which a new territorial designation.
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The leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans
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This land consisted mainly of parts of Czechoslovakia, and Hitler officially had full rights after the Munich Conference.
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It was a series of coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians
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Hitler's forces invaded and occupy Czechoslovakia forcing to take control.
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The two countries came together to decide and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.
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This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler because they resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
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They were expelled because of thier invasion in Finland.
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A concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas siezed by Nazi Germany to kill Jews in a variety of different ways.
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He was one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, and took action in warning the world about Germany's intentions
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the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France becasue large numbers of British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France.
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It was a significant turning point of World War II, the Battle of Britain ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force despite months of targeting Britain’s air bases, military posts and, ultimately, its civilian population; however, Britain’s decisive victory saved the country from a ground invasion and possible occupation by German forces while proving that air power alone could be used to win a major battle.
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Nazi Germany occupied three fifths of France's territory and established a new French government based at the town of Vichy.
This government, was commonly referred to as Vichy France and was headed by Henri Philippe Pétain, a General during World War One -
The Destroyers for Bases Agreement was a deal between the United Kingdom and the United States, where the U.S. sent the British Navy destroyer ships in exchange for the use of certain British military bases with free rent.
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A pact that finalized the emergence of the Axis powers as a whole.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt broke with tradition and ran for a third term, which became a major issue, and also won.
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Prsident Roosevelt's goals, including: Freedom of Speech, Want, Worship and Fear.
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The Lend-Lease Act empowered the president to sell, transfer, lend, or lease war supplies—such as equipment, food, and weapons—to American allies during World War II.
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Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia , and was the largest military attack of World War Two and was to have appalling consequences for the Russian people.
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It stated the Allied goals, and was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States.
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It was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 to control money and rents after the outbreak of World War.
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President Roosevelt issued an order to the U.S. Navy to shoot German or Italian warships in the west Atlantic on sight.
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After just two hours of bombing, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships* had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed.
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The United Stated declared war in response to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day.
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The start of the execution of millions of Jewish People
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It was an agency that resident Franklin D. Roosevelt established in order to supervise war production during World War II.
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This campain had two goals; to take over Axis powers and power over racism in the United States.
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It was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to kill the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe.
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He fought against Japan, and survived.
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It was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II.
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It was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II.
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It was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies
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It was fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war, but prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack.
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It was a major research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
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Germany and it's allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union.
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Japanese Americans were moved to camps or other location due to fear of conspiracies being plotted against America.
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It was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World Wa
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The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater., and with Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction.
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The leaders of the French government-in-exile, Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud came together to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war; this meeting marked the first time an American president left American soil during wartime.
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This act increased the wage for miners by two dollars, as a result of a strike.
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The Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers, and allowed for the invasion of Italy.
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A government contract to pay a manufacturer the cost to produce and item plus a guartanteed percentage.
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They surrendered, but their war was far from over.
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The conference was held to strengthen the cooperation of the United States, Great Britain, and the USSR in World War II.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in World War II gives the go-ahead for a massive invasion of Europe called Operation Overlord, which launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe
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It was a series of military operations that took place in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands during World War II
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They were suicide attacks by military aviators from Japan against the Aliie's Navy ships, they designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks,
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The Germans attempted to throw off the Americans, and they completely surprised them with this attack in Belgium.
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This conference included United States, United Kingdom, and SOviet Union; the puropse was mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
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This battle took place over the course of five weeks, and it was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan.
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Last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II, the Okinawa campaign involved the 287,000 troops of the U.S. Tenth Army against 130,000 soldiers of the Japanese Thirty-second Army.
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Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
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He committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
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On this day in 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France.
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The United Nations is a constituent treaty, so all members are bound by its articles.
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The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States came together to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany.
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The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.
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The day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.
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The bomb was dropped mainly due to Japan refusing to accept the Potsdam Declaration, but after this, they accepted it.
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the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was close.
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The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
