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A new form of government was established to get rid of the old Imperial form of government in Germany.
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In the year 1921, Adolf Hitler was given the title of the "Fuhrer" for the first time, and he was now known as the leader of the Nazi Party.
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A military conference issued by Warren Harding in regards to various interests in the Pacific Ocean and Eastern Asia.
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This was an agreement between the U.S. and U.K. to limit the naval arms race.
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the U.S., Britain, France, and Japan were to all respect the Pacific holdings of the other countries.
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Treaty agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction signed by the U.S., U.K., Japan, France, and Italy.
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Was a treaty affirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China as per the Open Door Policy signed by the U.S., Britain, Belgium, China, Japan, Italy, France, The Netherlands, and Portugal.
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Joseph Stalin became leader of USSR after its former leader, Lenin, died.
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Benito Mussolini takes on the role of dictator and takes complete charge of Italy, leading them to a fascist way of living.
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Was an attempt following World War I to collect war reparations from Germany for the Triple Entente.
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Hitler's book outlines his political ideology and future plans for ruling Germany.
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Hirohito became emperor of Japan in 1926 and it lasted until his death in 1989, and his period of reign was referred to as "Showa".
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An International agreement not to use war to solve issues or problems that come about.
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On "Black Tuesday" the stock market crashed as a direct result of the overuse of credit in the United States.
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Japan invaded Manchuria and this directly led the U.S. to boycott the raw materials to Japan.
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The American policy of non-recognition of territory taken by force by Japan during the war.
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Germany begins the mass extermination of the Jewish population in Europe.
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The period from 1933 to 1945 in which Hitler gained the power to control an entire nation and wipe out millions of people.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt issued his plans to try and recover the United States from it's state of economic depression.
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The policy of non intervention in the Latin American countries by the U.S.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt became the the President of the United States and was the only presdient to serve more than 8 years in office.
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A meeting of 66 nations to solve the problem of global depression, fix trade, and revive exchange rates.
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FDR wanted to limit Japan's expansion and he wanted to improve commercial realtions with the Soviet Union, so he began to recognize them in 1933.
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U.S. delegation promises not to intervene in Latin America again. Endorses Good Neighbor policy.
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A United States Law that provided self governing of the Philippines and granted independence to Filipino people after 10 years.
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A negotiation of tariff agreements between the U.S. and foreign nations, particularly Latin American nations.
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These acts were passed by the United States in the 1930's to show its isolationist view toward war and all it had to offer.
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Italy went to war with Ethiopia and this invasion showed the weaknesses in the League of Nations by not doing something about this incident.
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Adolf Hitler moves his illegally large army into the Rhineland. This defied the concept of limiting Germany's military power.
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Hitler marches his new, improved military into the Rhineland, and after several disputes, some other powers allow Germany to take over.
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Also known as the Spanish Civil War, this fascist revolt led by the "Nationalist" rebel, Francisco Franco, marked a period of Fascism in Spain for some 30 years.
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Coalition formed between Italy and Germany which led to the Axis Powers.
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Japan looked to greaten its Imperialistic ways by spreading its power into China and for several years, Japan and China fought over its territory, but Japan eventually gave up after surrendering to the U.S. in 1945.
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FDR gives a speech in which he calls for the "quarantine of the aggressor nations", as to show America's isolationist view for war.
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The mass murder and rape of individuals in Nanking, China committed by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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The occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany.
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In an effort to keep war from occurng, Britian, France and other nations sign a treaty with Germany granting them control of the Sudetenland.
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Hitler, with the proposal of the Munich Agreement, was able to take over the Sudetenland, the western border of Czechoslovakia.
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Settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia.
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Was the series of attacks led by Nazi Germany on the Jewish population in Germany and Austria.
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The conquest of the Sudetenland made Czechoslovakia weak and liable for being taken over, and so Hitler went with this thinking and took this area.
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Germany signed this treaty with the Soviets to make peace with the Soviets and to agree on "no war", and with this signing, Germany would not have to worry about a two front war.
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Also known as the September Campaign, the invasion of Poland is what starts WWII.
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The period known as the Phony War was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies until the Battle of Britain.
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Churchill became widely popular for his military authority, and was officially named Britain's Prime Minister in 1940.
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The British force and other Allies evacuate from the beaches of Dunkirk. and this evacuation helped save roughly 200,000 troops.
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The Vichy government was established in France after France surrendered to Germany
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Was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, which invloved German and Birtish aircrafts.
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U.S. exchanges Destroyer ships with the U.K for certain military bases in the U.K.
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Was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany which established the Axis Powers of World War II.
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The election in which FDR broke tradition and ran for a 3rd term, and he eventually won the presidential election.
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FDR stated that the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, ought to be enjoyed all over the world.
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The United States sent supplies to Allied Nations, thus ending their role as a neutral nation.
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Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, which was the largest invasion in the history of warfare.
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This document stated the Allies intentions for post-war, signed originally by the U.S. and Britain, but eventually by all the Allies.
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This administration was designed to bring ascending prices under control with extensive regulation, oftentimes rationing the consumption of meats and butter.
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President Roosevelt's command to shoot German or Italian ships and submarines on sight.
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This was a Concentration Camp established by Nazi Germany to wipe out the Jewish Population and this camp inevitebly killed 1.1 million people.
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The Japanese planned a surprise attack on the United States's military base at Pearl Harbor which put a halt on American Isolationism and got the U.S. into the war.
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The United States Congress declares war on Japan as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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FDR changed the course of industry and moved it into a production of needed materials for the war effort, and banished unneeded material.
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FDR propsed a standard that allowed local military commanders to designate military zones in which any person could be relocated.
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Nazi Germany's plan to exterminate the Jewish people throughout Europe.
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MacArthur escapes the Phillipines and delivers this famous speech stating that he came through and he shall return.
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American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to march to a location, in which many died. It was forced upon by the Japanese Army.
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An air raid led by the United States over the Japanese city of Tokyo and several other cities, and it served the point that Japan was vulnerable to an attack from the U.S.
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Rosie the Riveter served as a model for the hard working women in the factories during to provide for war efforts.
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The first ever battle to be completely between aircraft carriers, and this battle was between the U.S. and Japan in the Pacific.
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The battle in the Pacific against the U.S. and Japan. This marked the turning point in the war for the United States.
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Battle that took place in North Africa which marked a serious turning point in the Western Desert Campain with an Allied Victory.
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Battle fought on the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean, and it marked the first offensive battle for the Allies against Japan.
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The concept in which the U.S. took, to gain an initiative in the Pacific War, and this "hopping from island to island' began with the Battle of Guadalcanal.
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A battle over the city of Stalingard in USSR, in which Germany and the Soviet Union fought one of the bloodiest battles in wartime history, and which caused a crushing blow to the Eastern Front of Germany.
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The British-American invasion of French North Africa, in which would improve naval control of the Mediterranean Sea, and get rid of the Axis Powers from that area.
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African American soldiers quote meaning "Victory over our enemies at home and victory over our enemies on the battlefields abroad."
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A conference involving Allied Powers in regards to declaring the specifics for strategic warfare, ciculation of resources, and issues of diplomatic policy. Also brought up the concept of unconditional surrender.
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Gave the president power to seize and operate privately owned war plants when an actual or threatened strike or lockout interfered with war.
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A large scale Airborne attack on Sicily from the Axis Powers followed by a land invasion that took power away from the Axis Powers.
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The conference of U.S, U.K., and USSR to devise a plan to open a second front in the war.
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The all out invasion of Normandy, France, and its purpose was to develop a second front in Europe and help win back France from its Nazi invaders.
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General MacArthur, after his earlier promise of returing to the Philippines, washed ashore the Philippine island of Leyte, fullfilling his promise.
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These suicide pilots crashed their planes into enemy ships and gave up their lives for their countrymen for honor, and they appeared in the Battle of Layte Gulf.
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Was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia which caught the Allied forces offgaurd and resulted in an Axis Power victory.
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When the government agrees to pay a company whatever it costs to make an item plus a guaranteed percentasge of profit.
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President FDR won his 4th term of presidency by the sole fact that "the war was going well".
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The three Powers met in a meeting, The U.S., U.K., and USSR, to decide a plan of Reconstruction for Europe after the war.
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Battle fought on the island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific in which the U.S. won over its Japanese rival and the U.S. gained a pivital point to be able to reach and attack Japan.
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This battle in Okinawa was the largest assault in the Pacific War during World War II involving U.S. and Japan.
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In attempt to flee from defeat he was captured by Italian citizens and beaten and dragged and eventually hung.
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Hitler, because his Nazi Germany was in its last days, commits suicide in a bunker.
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As a result of berlin being taken over by the Soviets, and as a result of the leader of Nazi Germnay commiting suicide, Germeny unconditionally surrendered to the Allied Forces.
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Victory in Europe Day: marked the end of WWII with Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender.
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The foundational treaty for the United Nations, which prevailed over every other treaty to these nations.
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Was a development project led by the United States in which organzed the first atomic bombs.
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The three Powers sat down to establish a plan of what to do with the defeated Nazi Germany.
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President Eisenhower planned this atomic bomb, "Little Boy", on the city of Hiroshima in Japan as a result of Japan's stubborness and refusal to surrender.
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As proposed by the Manhattan Project, a second bomb was to be dropped on this Japanese city, and aslo given the nickname of "Fat Man".
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Is the name given to the day in which Japan surrendered to the United States as a result of the bombings.
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After the two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities, emperor Hirohito agrees to finally surrender to the U.S.
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Was a set of Military tribunals held by the Allied Forces in which members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany were prosecuted.
