World War II

  • Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

    became leader of italy
  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin

    1920's. Became leader of USSR
  • Japan

    Japan

    Invaded China
  • Japan

    Japan

    Invaded Manchuria
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    began
  • Adolf hitler

    Adolf hitler

    Bacame leader of Germany
  • FDR

    FDR

    Began good neighbor policy. 1933
  • Congress

    Congress

    Passed the nutrality act
  • Italy

    Italy

    Invaded Ethiopia
  • European Appeasement Of Hitler

    European Appeasement Of Hitler

    BEGAN ! ! !
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    "Night of Broken Glass." The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms
  • Manhattan project

    Manhattan project

    1939.research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II
  • Germany and Russia

    Germany and Russia

    signed a nonaggression pact
  • Germany

    Germany

    Began the blitz into poland
  • Battle of atlantic

    Battle of atlantic

    longest continuous military campaign in World War II
  • Ca$h and Carry

    Ca$h and Carry

    give the western Europeans assistance without risking American lives and gambling on their ability to pay them back in the future
  • Churchill

    Churchill

    Became the prime minister of Great Britian
  • Battle of britian

    Battle of britian

    Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain,
  • the triparitite pact

    the triparitite pact

    signed
  • Four Freedoms

    Four Freedoms

    Freedom of speech
    Freedom of worship
    Freedom from want
    Freedom from fear
  • Lend Lease act

    Lend Lease act

    principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II
  • Nazis

    Nazis

    Develope the final solution
  • Japanese

    Japanese

    Attack Pearl Harbor
  • Double V

    Double V

    intended to accomplish two things: victory over the Axis powers abroad and victory over Jim Crow and racism at home.
  • Japanese

    Japanese

    Put internment camps in the US
  • MacArthur

    MacArthur

    "returned" to the philapines
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    the prisoners were forced to march 85 miles in six days, with only one meal of rice
  • Doolittle Raids

    Doolittle Raids

    air raid to strike the Japanese home islands during WWII
  • Navaho Code Talkers Used

    Navaho Code Talkers Used

    The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers
  • Battle of midway

    Battle of midway

    Japanese military planners were elated with the results of the first phase of the war in the Pacific
  • Atlantic charter

    Atlantic charter

    defined the Allied goals for the post-war world
  • Battle of stalingrad

    Battle of stalingrad

    Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
  • Operation Torch

    Operation Torch

    name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942
  • Casablanca Confrence

    Casablanca Confrence

    plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
  • Developement

    Developement

    of Rosie the Riveter, used to refer to all women who worked in defense
  • Smith Connally anti strike act

    Smith Connally anti strike act

    This Act allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes that would interfere with war production.
  • WAAC

    WAAC

    Formed !Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
  • Tehran confrence

    Tehran confrence

    three leaders coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan
  • D- Day

    D- Day

    invasion of Normandy, France.
  • battle of bulge

    battle of bulge

    German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia
  • yalta confrence

    yalta confrence

    Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D.
  • Battle of Iwo Jima

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima.
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    VE Day celebrations in Britain at the end of WW2
  • Battle of Okinawa

    Battle of Okinawa

    Also Known As Operation Iceberg,
  • FDR

    FDR

    DIED !!
  • Atomic Bomb

    Atomic Bomb

    Dropped on Hiroshima
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

    VJ Day marks the end of WWII
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    the trial of the major war criminals by the International Military Tribunal
  • OPA

    OPA

    Created
  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Tuskegee Airmen

    popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II