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Benito Mussolini
Mussolini became the leader of Italy. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japn invaded Manchuria immedietly following the Mukden Incident. -
Japan invaded China
the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Good Neighbor Policy
FDR began this good Neighnbor Policy. the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. -
Adolf Hitler
Hitler became the leader of germany. Created a Nazi Party and that became the largest democratically elected party in the German Reichstag. -
Neutrality Acts
Congress pass the neutrality acts. In this act, imposed a general embargo on tradingg in arms & war materialsnwith all parties in a war. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
Second Italo–Ethiopian War. fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire -
European appeasement of Hitler
the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany -
Kristallnacht
part of the hollocaust another attack to the jews. -
Blirtzkrieg
German began the blirtzkrieg into Poland. germany forces stormed into warsaw Poland. -
Nonaggression Pact
Germany and Russia signed a nonaggression pact. Guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Battle of the Atlantic
longest continuous military campaign running from 1939 to the defeat of germany in 1945. -
Winston Churchill
Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britian. He also was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the War Cabinet, as he had been during the first part of the First World War. -
Cash and Carry
It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1939. The revision allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation.[ -
Tuskegee Airmen
The group of african-american piolits who fought in World War II. -
Battle of Britian
"Air battle for England" Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom -
The Tripartite Pact was signed
Three-power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact, or Triparite Treaty. Established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Four Freedoms
Goals articulated by Roosevelt in which he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" should enjoy: freedom of speech, worship, want, and fear -
Lend Lease Act
a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel -
Double V
United States home front during World War II, supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls. -
Joseph Stalin
Stalin became leader of the USSR. He believed in 'socialism in one country" -
MacAurthur 'returned' to the Philippines
The Philippine's Army recalled MacArthur to active duty in the U.S. Army as a major general, and named him commander of U.S. Army Forces in the Far East -
Atlantic Charter
Policy statement which early in the war, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. -
OPA created
Office Price Administration- the functions of the OPA were originally to control money and rents after the outbreak of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked the american pacific fleets naval base at pearl Harbor, Hawaii. -
Nazis developed the final solutions
Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe -
Development of Rosie the Riveter
a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. -
Navaho Code Talkers used
They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language a code that the Japanese never broke. -
Japanese put in internment camps in the U.S.
was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. -
Bataan Death march
forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines -
Doolittle Raids
Tokyo Raid- an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island -
WAAC Formed
It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps by public law. -
Battle of Midway
"the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare." It was Japan's first naval defeat since the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits in 1863 -
Manhattan Project
Research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during the war. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle of World war II in which Natzi Germany and all its aliens fought the soviet union for control of the city of Stalingrad. -
Operation Torch
the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
Casablanca Conference
This conference was to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
War Labor Disputes Act. an American law passed on June 25, 1943, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto. -
Tehran Conference
Consensus to open a second front against Nazi Germany by 1 May 1944 -
Holocaust began
The mass murder of about 6 million Jews during the war. -
D-Day
day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. -
Battle of the Bulge
major german offensive campaign launched through Belgium, France. -
Yalta Conference
Crimea Conference. meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Battle of iwo Jima
Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Battle of Okinawa
(Operation Iceburg) Fought on the Ryukyu Islands and was the biggest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. -
FDR's death
On the afternoon of April 12, Roosevelt said, "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head." He then slumped forward in his chair, unconscious, and was carried into his bedroom. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day, The day Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, germany had surrendered May 7th. -
Hiroshima
There was an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It destroyed the whole city of Toyama. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan’s surrender was made—to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan -
Nuremberg Trials
series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
