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When Japan invaded Manchuria it started Japanese aggression against China and Indochina. japan intended to create a Japanese sphere of economic domination, trying to solve economic problems through expansion. this is important to US history because it was an attempt to solve economic problems through expansion.
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The Munich Pact is when Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to take more land. For this Hitlerś agreement to seek no more territory after the concession, eventually leading to him breaking the pact no less than 6 months later.
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews.
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The Neutrality Acts of 1939 also referred to as Cash and carry allowed nations at war to buy goods from the US if they paid cash upfront and carried the merchandise on their own ships. this is important to US history because companies were still able to have access to products.
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The reason Germany invaded Poland is that Hitler broke the Munich pact by invading Czechoslovakia. This is important to Us history because it leads to France and Britain declaring war on Germany.
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The Lend-Lease Act also referred to as March 1941, where Congress authorizes Roosevelt to "sell, transfer title to exchange, lease, lend or dispose to any government and defence article.¨He though this was necessary for the interest of the defence of the US.
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The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration issued during World War II by the United States and Great Britain that set out a vision for the postwar world.
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At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, pear harbor was bombed by Japanese people. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II.
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one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own.
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In the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government forced over 100,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II—and one of those Japanese-Americans, Fred Korematsu, would later contend the act had violated his constitutional rights.
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D-Day was a battle that took place on June 6, 1944. 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region.
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the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes region of Belgium was Adolf Hitler’s last major offensive in World War II against the Western Front. Hitler’s aim was to split the Allies in their drive toward Germany. The German troops’ failure to divide Britain, France and America with the Ardennes offensive paved the way to victory for the allies.
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of three World War II allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in February 1945 in the resort city of Yalta, located along the Black Sea coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
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After the Yatta Conference, the bombing of Hiroshima (8/6/1945) and Nagasaki (8/9/1945) was dropped by Truman. He did this to prevent the necessity for landing and fighting on the Japanese home island.
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The US played a key role in helping to organize and start the united nations. The intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international oreder
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The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials took place from Nov. 20, 1945, to Oct. 1, 1946. Nazi officers and civilians were charged with crimes against humanity, were 12 Nazis were convicted and sentenced to death. This is important to the US because it established a precedent where everyone was not responsible for their own crimes and so on.
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The Truman Doctrine pledged to contain communism in Europe and was first applied when the United States supplied military and financial aid to Greece and turkey to resist the communist-backed rebel forces there was made in 1947.
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Fearing that a war-torn and economically weak western Europe would elect socialist /communist governments the US offered financial aid Marshall Plan to promote economic rebuilding and prevent the fall of European countries to communism. This was proposed by Sec. of state George Marshall.
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The US supported the seld determination of the Jewish people with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. The US promptly recognized and supported Israel demonstrates the impact of German war crimes on the conscience of the US and the world.
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The first test of US policy by the soviet union came when the Soviets blockaded Berlin. The US won this first Cold War confrontation with the Berlin Airlift.
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It was established as a military alliance to aim at the soviet union. A military alliance of eastern European nations against the NATO
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This led the united states to accelerate the development of the hydrogen bomb and began a nuclear arms race
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The Truman administration believed this invasion had been orchestrated by the Societ Union and urged the United Nations to take action. The United Nations voted unanimously to demand a ceasefire and support police action to defend South Korea.
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The space race struck out when sputnik launched it on October 4,1957. By the launch happen it was able to advance science and math skills. it also frustrated consumerism which made Americans ruthless and less likely to achieve the win from the arms race.
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President Eisenhower invented in Suez Crisis in 1956 and extended containment to the middle east sues crisis. Israel troops push into Eygpt towards Suez canal after Egypt nationalized it .
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promote science and math skills counteract the fear that consumerism had made Americans less competitive and less likely to win the arms race
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The city of Berlin was divided at the end of world war ll. The Soviets controlled East Berlin and the Allies controlled sections of west Germany. The city was divided by the German wall. Which also became a symbol of the cold war to separate East and West Germany.
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The prop up friendly government US-supported Afghan resistance movement because of containment policy. Soviets withdraw in 1989. Afghan rebel groups evolved into the Taliban, which aided and sheltered Al Qaeda
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Fall of the Berlin wall in 1090 considered to be end of the cold war soviet union collapsed in 1991.
