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Great Depression begins
The stock market crashed, and then over 8 million people become unemployed and couldn’t support their family with food money or any other normal things that they once had. -
Britain’s appeasement of Germany
Appeasement, the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict, governed Anglo-French foreign policy during the 1930s. -
Japan conquers Manchuria in northern China
o Japan conquers Manchuria in northern China
In 1931, the Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. This proved to be one of the causes of World War IIs -
Japan invades China
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 19, 1931, when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Roosevelt first elected president
Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address.(1932) -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
Japanese-American incarceration
During World War II, the federal government ordered 120,000 Japanese-Americans who lived on the West coast to leave their homes and live in 10 large relocation camps in remote, desolate areas, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. Two-thirds were native-born American citizens. -
o Germany invades Poland - blitzkrieg (start of WWII)
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934. -
Nuremberg Laws
A conference of ministers was held on August 20, 1935, to discuss the economic effects of Party actions against Jews. Adolf Wagner, the Party representative at the conference, argued that such actions would cease, once the Government decided on a firm policy against the Jews. -
Germany invades Austria
A union between Germany and Austria had been forbidden under the terms of the Versailles Treaty but in 1938 this took place. Between 1933 and 1935, Austria had been protected against any German bullying by Italy. -
Hitler & Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis
The Italian invasion and annexation of Abyssinia had strained relations between Italy and its allies Britain and France, and Benito Mussolini finally repudiated Italy's alliance with them. Hitler then began planning to draw fascist Italy into an alliance with Nazi Germany. -
Japan joins the Axis Powers
The belligerents during World War II fought as partners in one of two major alliances: the Axis and the Allies. The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German hegemony over most of continental Europe; Italian hegemony over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese hegemony over East Asia and the Pacific. -
Kristallnacht
The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops. -
Germany & Soviet Union have a nonaggression pact
On August 23, 1939, 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. -
Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France (Vichy France)
On this day in 1940, German warships enter major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupy Copenhagen, among other Danish cities. ( April 9, 1940) -
German air force (Luftwaffe) bombs London and other civilian targets in the Battle of Britain
The German air force has unleashed a wave of heavy bombing raids on London, killing hundreds of civilians and injuring many more. (1940) -
Lend-Lease Act
Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed -
Germany invades the Soviet Union
Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Preal Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was what to the U.S into World War 2, this happened December 7. 1941 -
Tuskegee Airmen
In spite of adversity and limited opportunities, African Americans have played a significant role in U.S. military history over the past 300 years. They were denied military leadership roles and skilled training because many believed they lacked qualifications for combat duty. -
Formation of the United Nations
50 Nations met in San Francisco to disscuse the new peacekeepers orginized to replace the weak ineffectives. -
Formation of United Nations
All 50 Nations ratifed the charter, creating a new international peacekeepers body known as the United Nations. -
Potsdam Conference
When from July 17- August 2, 1945. Allies held Potsdam COnferens to put the bad guys down. -
Nuremburg Trails
24 defendens include some of hitlers top offecers . Hermann Goring- Created and hea dof the Gestapo(secret police). Chraged with crimes against humanity. 19 were found guilty and 12 were sentenced to death. -
Marshell Plan
No data..... Congress approved Secretary of State Geore Marshell's plan to help boost European economies. The U.S. gave more then $13billion to help the nations of Europe get back on the feet.