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WWII
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Hitler
Hitler becomes chancellor. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Fuhrer announced that Germany would not obey the restrictions. -
German Troops
German troops move to the Rhineland. -
Appeasement
Neville Chamberlans program for dealing with Hitler was one of appeasement of attempting to meet German grievances in hopes of avoiding war. Hitler took advantage of this policy by annexing Austria on March 13, 1938. -
The Munich Conference
France and Britain where preparing for war when Mussolini proposed a meeting of Germnay, France, Britain, and Italy in Munich, Germany. -
Polish Corridor
Hitler demanded that the Polisher Corridor be returned to Germany. -
Non Aggression Pact
The leaders of Russia and Germany signed the non aggressdion pact -
Surprise attack
Hitler quickly moved ahead with plans to conquer Poland ending with a surprisse attack. -
WWII begins
The start of the war right before Hitler's invasion of Poland -
Blitzkrieg
France and Great Britain declare war on Germnay. This is where they use their new military strategy the blitzkrieg or the lightening war. -
Battle of Britain
Churchill gave a speech to the British people saying that the Battle of France is over and the Battle of Britain is about to begin. -
French Surrendered
The French Government calls on the Germans for an armistice that would end fighting. -
The Lend Lease Act
the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Operation Barbarossa
Barbarossa was a big turning point in WWII. Their failure forced Nazi Germany to fight a two-front war against a coalition possessing immensely superior resources. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
The United Nations/The Big Three
Representatives from the other nations came to one place and had a meeting and represented their country. The Big Three, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill meet at the Teheran conference. -
Atlantic Charter
A group of 26 allied nations pledged their support for the declaration that the US and Great Britain issued. -
D-Day
Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than -
Island Hopping
US troops invaded Iwo Jima; the first American landing on Japanese territory. Island Hopping is the phrase given to the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific. -
Fall of Berlin
Stalin's attempt to take Berlin ahead of his allies in 1945, led to the death of 70,000 Russian soldiers. They then fell and lost the war. -
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
