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Great Depression begins
the Great Depression started on October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed. It was the economic collapse in America and it ended in 1945 through WW2. It was bad for the World War because America was in depression -
Japan conquers Manchuria in northern China
Japan conquers Manchuria in northern China in 1931 -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Hitler bacame the cancelor of Germany after the elections in 1932. He was fascist leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party or the Nazi Party. The Nazies attracted supporters by preaching that Germans were the superior race. -
Roosevelt first elected president
March 4th 1933 is when President FDR was elected. He was the president that made the New Deal which was one of his points in his political debates. It promised social ism. He also played a big role in WW2 -
Japan invades China
Japan invades China -
Germany invades Austria
Hitler went ahead on his plans and invaded Austria to unify all German speaking people. He wanted Austria back to be a part of Germany. -
Kristallnacht
referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, was a series of coordinated attack against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria carried out by wing of the Nazi Party and civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening. The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues.
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Germany & Soviet Union nonaggression pact
August 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union have a pact not to attack each other. -
Germany invades Poland - blitzkrieg
This was important because it was the start of WW2. Britain and France declared war on Germany. Germany's Blitzkrieg was a form of the German air strike forces and was very efective in their defensive strategies and offensive strategies -
Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France
Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France -
Britain’s appeasement of Germany
Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway to safeguard supply routes of the Swedish. He wanted take over them for the war -
Japan joins the Axis Powers
Japan joins the Axis Powers -
German air force (Luftwaffe)
bombs London and other civilian targets in the Battle of Britain September 7, 1940. Hitler hoped to destroy the moral of the British people -
Lnd-Lease Act
Lend-Lease enacted March 11, 1941) was the law that started a program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the USSR, Republic of China, France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. -
Germany invades the Soviet Union
Russia was surprised because they had a pact with Germany. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed Americas ship refueling base Pearl Harbor. Americans were took by suprise and they lost about 3000 men. The base was in Hawaii -
British forces stop the German advance at El Alamein
1942 Montgomery attacked the German-Italian army in North Africa with a massive bombardment. -
Manhattan Project
It was a project by the Americans to make the nuclear bomb to use against Japan. They were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Rosie the Riveter
- Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II. Rosie the Riveter is commonly used as a symbol of feminism and women's economic power.
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The Nazis implement the “Final Solution”
At Wannsee, the SS estimates that the "Final Solution" will involve 11 million European Jews, including those from non-occupied countries such as Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, and Great Britain. Between the fall of 1941 and the fall of 1944, the German railways transport millions of people to their deaths in killing centers in occupied Poland. -
Japanese-American incarceration
February 19, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment, which allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all may be excluded. -
Bataan Death March
April 9, 1942. The Bataan Death March was the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II. The 63-mile march began with 72,000 prisoners -
Battle of Midway
June 1942 The USA defeated Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. The U.S Navy destroyed 4 Japanese Carriers and about 150 planes. -
Guadalcanal
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, the Battle of Friday the 13th, or, in Japanese sources, the Third Battle of the Solomon Sea took place from 12–15 November 1942, and was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied and Imperial Japanese forces -
German forces surrender at Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Tuskegee Airmen
20 June 1943 The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. They formed the 32nd Fighter Group -
D-Day
The Allies launched an attack on Germany’s forces in Normandy, France. Thousands of transports carried an invasion under the supreme commander general Eisenhower -
Battle of the Bulge
December 1944 Germany launched its final defensive through the Andennes region of Belgium. However they were beaten back by the allies -
Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, including its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This month-long battle included some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II. -
Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes president
Roosevelt dies, Truman becomes president -
Formation of the United Nations
April 25, 1945—50 nations met San Francisco to discuss a new peacekeeping organizations. June 26, 1945 all 50 nations ratified the charter, creating a new international peacekeeping body known as the United Nations. President Roosevelt had urged Americans not to go in war. Unlike the legue of Nations, the U.S. is a member of the United Nations -
Allied forces advance on Berlin, Germany surrenders
Allied forces advance on Berlin, Germany surrenders. After a long war Germany finally gives in -
Okinawa
82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. The battle has been referred to as the "typhoon of steel" in English. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders. -
Nuremberg Laws
July 1945. The Nuremburg Laws were the laws that the Allies charged against the Nazis. These laws led to the Nuremberg Trials -
Potsdam Conference
July 17- August 2, 1945 Allies held the Potsdam Conference to plan the war’s end. Decision was made to put Nazi war criminals on trial. -
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The bomb in Hiroshima August 6, 1945 killing 75,000 people and they refused to surrender so they dropped another nuke in Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 killing 40,000 people -
Nuremburg trials
November 20, 1945- October 2, 1946. 24 defendants, including some of Hitler’s top officials. Hermann Goring—creator and head of Gestapo (secret police). Charged with crimes against humanity. 19 found guilty, 12 sentenced to death. People are responsible for their actions, even in wartimes. -
Martial Plan
1948 . Congress approved Secretary of state George Marshall’s plan to help boost European economies. The U.S. gave more than $13billion to help the nations of Europe to get back on their feet.