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Great Depression Begins
The great depression is a tie of widespread poverty. The prosperity of the rouring twenties gave way to a stock market crash and a banking collapse leaving thousands suddenly poor. -
Japan conquers Manchuria in northern China
Signals the beginning of a brutal campaign from the Japanese against China. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
Hitler is voted into office of Chancellor due to the widespread political power of his Nazi party. The Nazi party seemed innocent enough if a little radical, but no one knew how bad things would get. Hitler preached of returning Germany to its former splendor, which excites the pooor but nationalistic Germans. -
Roosevelt is elected President of The United States of America
Widely popular and very clever, Roosevelt was quickly voted into office. He started a New Deal and pulled America out of economic depression. -
Nuremberg Laws Established
THe nuremberg race laws were antisemetic laws established by the German government as a form of persecution of Jews in germany. It defined a jew as one with 3 or 4 jewish grandparents and derprived them of citizenship or any rights. -
Hitler and Mussolini form the Rome-Berlin Axis
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Japan invades China
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Germany Invades Austria
On the 12th of March in 1938, Hitler staged an occupation of Austria. The people of Austria welcomed the German occupation since the people were mostly of German descent. -
Great Britain Appeases Germany
Great Britain allows Germany to keep the Austria that they had occupied in exchange for no further aggresion from Germany. This basically let the Germans gett away with their invasion to the outrage of many including future prime minister Winston Churchil -
Kristallnacht
A very important night inwhich paramillitary groups and civilians caried out a series or coordinated attacks against the Jewish population. German lawkeepers did not intervene which told everyone that the government would not care if you attacked the jewish peoples. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project is started with the goal of creating the Atomic Bomb. It was headed by Oppenheimer and created teh Atom Bombs Fat Man and Little Boy that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Germany and Soviet Union Non Aggression Pact
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Germany Blitzkreigs Poland.
Germany invades Poland in a style that comes to be known as a Bliztkeig, an invasion with no provocation, warning, or precedent that is a brutalfrontal attack that aims to destroy the opposition with no chance of resistance. This sparks the begginning of World War 2 in Europe. -
Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France
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Germany bombs London and British Civilian Centers In Battle of Britain
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Lend-Lease Act
In an effort to support her former Allies, America lends 20.1 billion dollars worth of supplies to their European Allies. This took them out of their pretense of neutrality. -
Japan Joins the Axis Powers
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Germany Invades Soviet Union
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Pearl Harbor
The American Naval Bade in Pearl Harbor on Hawaii is attacked by Japanese Air Forces with no warning. Sparks American entry into World War II. -
Rosie the Riveter
The role of the American woman was seriously affected by the war. Women got out of the kitchen and into the factory. They started working as the main sorce of income for their families and they were the backbone of the American war industry. -
Japanese Internment
In 1942, The American Government uprooted and relocated thousands of Japanese Americans from the west coast to areas in more central united states. They were relocated to temporary shack camps in fairgrounds and race tracks and then transfered to more permanant locations. They cam back to see their porperty and land taken away or vandalized. -
Nazi Implement the Final Solution
The Nazi Regime builds extermination camps that were designed to destroy the entire jewish population of Europe in the most Efficient way possible. They were kept in HORRIBLE circumstances and they were worked to death or gassed. The other jews worked the ovens that burn the bodies. -
Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal is the first offensive attack by the United States against the Japanese Empire. The American Army attacked the Air Field at Guadalcanal and the Japanese were not able to take it back. -
Bataan Death March
Japanese Forces forced American prisoners to travel by foot to prison camps. The march caused over 10,000 casualties due to killings and exposure/starvation deaths. -
Battle of Midway
On the 4th of June 1942, the American Navy fought the Japanese imperial navy off the coast of Midway. Teh Americans Crippled the Japanese Navy to an extent that was irreperable and devastating. One of the biggest turning points of the Pacific War. -
Battle of El Alamein halts German Advance
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Battle of Stalingrad
German forces had been pushing into the Soviet Union taing huge losses in the weather and the continual fighting. The russians stood at Stalingrad and were determined to hold it. The German general begged Hitler to let him fall back or regroup, but Hitler continued. The german forces attacking the Soviet Union were decimated and the Germans were forced to surrender, ending their attack on the Soviets. -
Tuskegee Airmen first Deployed overseas
African Americans in the Army were still required to serve in segrigated Units. The Tuskegee Airmen were a very succesful all black Air Force unit that served with Honor and opened the door to less racism in the Armed Forces. -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy france that was the entrance of the allies into Europian offensives. D-Day was the day that the entire Allied Offensive hinged upon. Thousands of Allied forced took sever casualties in their amphibious attacks on the beaches, the most bloody on Omaha beach. -
Battle of The Bulge
German offensive to try and break out of the constricting Allied lines. The Germans gained the upper hand as weather conditions grounded allied overwhelming air support. The weather cleared so the Air Force came into play and decimated German supply lines and secured the failure of the German push. -
Yalta Conferance
Meeting of the Heads of the Big Three, the U.K., the U.S., and The U.S.S.R.. to discuss the future of post war Europe. The main issue on the board is the government of post-war germany and Poland. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
A massive American attack against the entire island of Iwo Jima. It was one of the most important battles of the war as it showed some of the greatest American majesty and the island 3 Airlfields gave a strategic entry point to the main Japanese Islands. -
Battle of Okinawa
The largest Amphibiouse assoult of the Pacific War. Highest numbers of casualties of the Pacific War. It was staged to give the U.S. a very close area from which to invade Japan since Okinawa was only 340 Miles from Japan. -
Roosevelt Dies and Truman becomes president
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Germany surrenders as Allied Forces descend upon Berlin
The Allied forces close in from the west and the Soviet Union rampages in from the east, Germany finally surrenders. Germany is held in two halves by the allies in the West and the Soviet Union from the East. Americans Celebrate V-Day and the World rejoyces the end of the war in Europe. -
Postdam Conferance
After the surrender of the German Forces, The Big Three gather for a third time to debate about Post-War Europe and the Punishment of Germany, -
The First Atomic Bomb is Dropped on Hiroshima
In an attempt to force Japans speedy Surrender, America dropped the first Atomic bomb on the civlian town of Hiroshima and another 3 days later on the civilian town of Nagasaki. The total death toll totalled 246,000 deaths, most of which civilian and half of which occured on the first day after the respective Bombings. -
Japan signs it's surrender aboard the U.S.S Missiouri, ending World War II
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Formation of the United Nations
Gathering in San Franscisco, delegates from 50 Nations came tgether to create and International peace-keeping organization to replace the faulty league of Nations. This time, the United Nations would have a large amount more power than the league and the United States Were included in the United States Where They had Opted out in th Leaguye of Nations. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Formation of the U.N. brought the Idea that countries are to be held responsible for their actions even in a state of war. The Nuremberg trials were the trials of the people within the German hierarchy which had commited attrocities during the war such as the Holocaust. They were charged for the first time with Crimes Against Humanity -
Marshall Plan
Plan that was used by the United States to give money to the European nations affect by World War II to help with reconstruction and to stem the flow of Communism. A large scale rescue plan to try and rescue the war-torn Europe.
