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Mussolini assembled a Fascist Party conference to discuss a coup de main or “sneak attack” on the Italian capital of Rome.
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Stalin became a Soviet Union's and a country's communist party leader after the death of Vladimir Lenin. However, his actual dictatorship began after he became the undisputed leader of Russia in 1929
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Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. This proved to be one of the causes of World War II.
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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
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Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power due to the social and political circumstances that characterized the interwar period in Germany.
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Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented consolidation of power in the short history of the republic.
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The United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality.
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Ethiopia had valuable exports and at the time they were also forming a modern army with the help of several European powers, but was purchased with their own money
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The policy of giving in to Germany’s demands in order to maintain peace was known as Appeasement.
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Instigated by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA and Hitler Youth, Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom.
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representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war.
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Gramany invaded Poland on September 1st,1939.The attack comes without any warning or declaration of war.
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In late 1941, the American effort to design and build an atomic bomb later receiving its code name: The Manhattan Project.
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Germany blockaded America’s merchant ships to control the Atlantic. Then America sent naval ships to block Germany’s trade routes.
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President Roosevelt knew that if the Allies fell then the US would be drawn into war, He asked Congress to allow the Allies to buy American arms. The Allies would pay cash and then carry the goods on their own ships.
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Churchill, who was known for his military leadership ability, was appointed British prime minister in his place. He formed an all-party coalition and quickly won the popular support of Britons.
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The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command.
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The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. The Pact provided for mutual assistance should any of the signatories suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war.
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The Four Freedoms were: the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear, they symbolized America's war aims and gave hope in the following years to a war-wearied people because they knew they were fighting for freedom.
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The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials.
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Nazi Germany's plan to exterminate the Jews.
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. It provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.
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The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.
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The Double V was intended to accomplish two things: victory over the Axis powers abroad and victory over Jim Crow and racism at home.
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The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
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"Tuskegee Airmen" refers to all who were involved in the so-called "Tuskegee Experiment," the Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft.
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The forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese.The 63-mile march began with 72,000* prisoners from the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
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Air attack on Japan, launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet and led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, was the most daring operation yet undertaken by the United States in the young Pacific War.
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In the build up to its creation, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps encountered the prejudices that existed at that time to women in general.
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During World War II, the Marine Corps used one of the thousands of languages spoken in the world to create an unbreakable code: Navajo.
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Naval battle on Midway atoll and a decisive American victory.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia.
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The name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa . The first time the British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together.
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The Japanese attacked on Pear Harbor on December 7th 1942.Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, had initiated planning for a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at the beginning of any hostilities that the Japanese might undertake
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Women affectionately known as "Rosies" helped change industry and had sweeping and lasting impacts.
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The most notable developments at the Conference were the finalization of Allied strategic plans against the Axis powers in 1943, and the promulgation of the policy of “unconditional surrender.”
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The legislation was hurriedly created after 400,000 coal miners, their wages significantly lowered due to high wartime inflation, struck for a $2-a-day wage increase.
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This was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943.
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June 1944 was a major turning point of World War II, particularly in Europe. Although the initiative had been seized from the Germans some months before, so far the western Allies had been unable to mass sufficient men and material to risk an attack in northern Europe.
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He had made 2.5 years earlier to the people of the Philippines: he returned to the islands with an enormous invasion force and the largest assemblage of naval vessels in the history of mankind.
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Allied Victory in the Ardennes mountains against the Germans(Also called the Ardennes Offensive)
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The big three discuss the reorganization of post war Europe(Stalin,Roosevelt,Churchill)
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U.S. captured the Island of Iwo Jima storming three japanese airfields
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
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Trials against the defeated Nazi Germany after World War 2
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VE Day Started on May 8th 1954.The day on which the Allies announced the surrender of German forces in Europe.
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Codenamed operation Iceberg was an allied victory and the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War
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The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was on August 6gh 1945.B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan.
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VJ Day started on August 15th 1945.the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japanese forces during World War II.
