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After Lenin dies Stalin takes over as leader of the USSR.
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Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy.
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When Japanese forces invaded manchuria.
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The mass murdering of Jews called the Holocaust began.
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
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FDR's policy which stated that the U.S. would not interfere in Latin American Affairs.
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Mussolini commands troops to invade Ethiopia.
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Japanese forces invade China and started the second Sino-Japanese War.
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In order to avoid conflict, European nations gave Hitler what he wanted such as the Czech Republic border change. As history shows us, this didn't work out too well.
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Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass", was the day when Jews throughout Germany were attacked and the violence was supported by the government.
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Germany and Russia sign nonagression pact that stated that they wouldn't attack each other.
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Germany invades poland.
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It lasted throughout the whole war and was the Axis forces using U-Boats to make passage through the Atlantic ocean difficult for the Allied forces.
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It took out the Neutrality acts and allowed the U.S. to help out warring nations.
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Congress pass the neutrality acts which makes the U.S. practice isolationism and not intervene in foreign affairs.
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Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain after Neville Chamberlain resigns.
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The first African-American pilots to fly in the war.
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The battle between Britain and Germany that was fought entirely in the air and was the turning point of the war because Germany was not able to completely defeat britain like it did poland and other countries.
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The pact that created the Axis Powers
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FDR'S four principles that he believed everyone should have. They were Freedom of Speech, Worship, Want, and Fear.
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An act that helped the U.S. supply Great Britain with supplies during the war.
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The U.S. and Britain met and set their goals for the future after the war. All the allies agreed to the policies later on.
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The OPA is created and sets up rations for people during World War II.
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A suprise attack by Japanese forces on the U.S. navy in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Nazi's put into action the final solution to eradicate the all of the Jews.
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A campaign created to insill motivation in the war with African-Americans.
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Thousands of people of Japanese ancestry are put into "War relocation camps" inside of the U.S.
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When the Japanese forcibly moved thousands of Filipino and American POWs across the Philippines.
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Was an air raid on the cities in the home island of Japan.
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The U.S. forces used people who spoke Navajo to crypt their messages using the Navajo language.
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The womens branch of the arm was created
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A Naval battle in which the U.S. defeated the strong Japanese Navy fleet and was a turning point in the pacific theater of WWII because it damaged the Japanese fleet tremendously.
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The research project that created the atomic bombs.
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It was the turning point of the European Theater of the World War II and was fought between Germany and the Soviet Union.
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The Allied invasion of North Africa.
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The conference that gave the allied powers the term "unconditional surrender".
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A figure which helped encourage women to work during the war when workers were low.
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The act allowed the government to take control over companies and factories if they interfered with war production.
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Was a conference held by the big three and resulted in the opening of the second front on the western side of Germany.
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D-Day was the name of the invasion of the beaches of Normandy by the Allied forces.
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After retreating from the Philippines Macarther makes a promise to return to the Philippines. He returns and takes back the Philippines.
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A suprise attack on the Allied forces by the Germans and also the battle with the most casualties for the U.S.
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Where the big three powers met to discuss what they were going to do after the war.
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The battle in which the U.S. fought for the island of Iwo Jima which they wanted to use to set up base for the attacks on the Japanese Main Islands.
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Was the bloodiest battle and the largest amphibous assault of the Pacific Theater of War.
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FDR dies during office
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V-E day or Victory in Europe Day is the day when Germany surrendered and the war in euorope ended.
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The atomic bomb "little boy" is dropped on Hiroshima.
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The day Japan officially surrendered and ended World War II.
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Was a set of trials which tried many Nazi Germany leaders for war crimes commited during WWII.
