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started on October 1929- 1941 while many people became homeless, experienced starvation, and extreme suffering. Had a great impact on everyones lives with the economic boom and changed the cautions with money.
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They attracted supporters by preaching German racial superiority and appointed chancellor of Germany. This had started the whole cause of the WWII when Hitler first became a leader.
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He was the 32nd president and had set to work immediately with the help of congress. He declared bank holiday which only banks in good shape are allowed to reopen. He also created the fireside chats.
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they were anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party, while people were classified as Jews if they descended from three or four Jewish grandparents.
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termed the Anschluss, a contingeny specifically disallowed in the Versailles Treaty.
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It is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to a dictatorial power (or powers) in order to avoid a threatened conflict, made “peace for our time” when Hitler was getting too much power.
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There was no event in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 that was so widely reported as it was happening. They killed 91 Jews and arrested 30,00. While windows broken everywhere and every house destroyed,
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was the German lightning war tactics. German declared war on Poland, two days later Great Britain and France declared war on Germany- which is when world war II began.
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Allowed the United States to lend weapons to allies while Roosevelt had supported. They sent allies 50 billion dollars’ worth of goods.
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Japanese warplanes bombed the huge American naval base in Hawaii and it was a complete surprise to the U.S. and 2,400 Americans died.
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Government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast,
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The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes.
Polish and western European Jews were deported to these ghettos where they lived in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions with inadequate food.
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was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II.
The 128 km (80 mi) march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder
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Top secret government project to develop the atomic bomb
1942
Worked for three years to construct thee weapon
Shortly after made they used it for destruction on japan -
U.s victory over Japanese off midway island that proved to be the turning point of war
U.s destroyed 4 Japanese carriers and at least 250 planes
U.S. lost one carrier and at least 150 planes
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Of more than 280,000 men under Paulus' command, half were already dead or dying, about 35,000 had been evacuated from the front, and the remaining 91,000 were hauled off to Soviet POW camps.
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famous segregated unit of African American pilots and they served with honor in North Africa and Europe, about 1 million served.
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American forces were ultimately victorious
Honiara, on the north coast of Guadalcanal, became the new capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
bitter fighting between Japanese and American troops -
Allied invasion of France
June 6, 1944
Largest seaborne invasion in history
850,000 allied troops had poured into France
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Final German assault in Ardennes region of Belgium
December 1944
German troops pushed back allied forces before U.S. troops could regain and defeat
120,000 German causalities and 80,000 American causalities -
February 1945
Conference where allies planned the post-war conference
The big three (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin) attended
Made plans for the end of the war and the future of Europe -
February 1945
U.S. marines invaded
Planted flag on top of Iowas mountain symbolizing victory
Fighting continued for several days afterward -
April 1945
U.S. invaded Okinawa
Several months it took for them to conquer both islands
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April 25 1945- 50 nations meet in san Francisco to discuss a new peacekeeping organization to replace the weak and ineffective league of nations
June 26, 1945- all 50 nation ratified the charter, creating a new international peacekeeping body known as the united nations
President Roosevelt had urged Americans not to turn their backs on the world again
Unlike the league of nations, the united states is a member of the united nations -
an image of a strong woman hard at work at an arms factory, promoted as its symbol for its new group of wage earners.
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Germany finally surrenders ending the fight of WWII
Germany realizing that if Allied forces advance on Berlin they have no power and have a less likely percent of winning the battle so they decide to surrender -
July 17- august 2, 1945, decision was made to put Nazi war criminal on trial
Allies held the Potsdam conference to plan the wars end -
August 6, 1945
Explosion killed more than 75,000 people and then the second time killed more than 40,00
The Americans had dropped the bomb twice because neither of their chances they surrendered so they proved to the Japanese they were still in power
Killed many people that were civilians not soldiers -
November 20, 1945- October 1, 1946
24 defendants, including some of Hitler’s top officials
Hermann goring- creator & head of gestapo (secret police)
Charged with crimes against humanity
19 found guilty, 12 sentenced to death
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Congress approved secretary of state George Marshalls plan to help boost European economies
The U.S. gave more than 13 billion to help the nations of Europe get back on their feet
