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Japan invades Manchuria
It started Japanese aggression against China and Indochina. Economic domination trying to solve economic problems through expansion. -
Munich Pact
Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to take more land in exchange for Hitler’s agreement to seek no more territory after that concession. -
Munich Pact
Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler to take more land in exchange for Hitler’s agreement to seek no more territory after that concession. -
Kristallnacht
It was known as” Night of Brokeness” Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews. -
Germany invades Poland
This led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany. -
Neutrality acts of 1939
It allowed nations at war to buy goods from the US if they paid cash up front and carried the merchandise in their own ships. -
Germany invades Poland
This led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany. -
Atlantic Charter
It was a broad statement of US and British war aims. It endorsed self-determination and an international system of general security. -
Lend Lease act
Congress authorizes Roosevelt to sell, transfer, title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose it to any such government and defense article. -
Executive Order 8022
It prohibited ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation’s defense industry. -
Atlantic Conference
Its alliance strengthened between US and Great Britain by signing the Atlantic Charter. Churchill and FDR. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
It was a Surprise attack against Pearl Harbor naval base as well as nearby air fields by Japan in response to US embargoes. -
Executive Order 9066
It authorized the internment of Americans of Japanese decent and resident aliens from Japan. -
Battle of Midway
It stopped the Japanese advance and put them on the defensive. -
Operation Torch
the invasion of North Africa was launched to free the Mediterranean Sea from German control and protect the oil fields in the Middle East. -
D-Day ( invasion of Normandy)
It finally provided the long awaited Western front. Germany was now engaged on 3 fronts and had to divert resources to a Western front. -
Battle of the Bulge
This was the last German offensive and the beginning of the end for the Nazis. -
Korematsu v. United States
Its when a Japanese American refused to leave his home per the executive order 9066. He lost the case and the supreme court upheld Japanese internment as Constitutional. -
Yalta Conference
It was Final plans for the defeat of Europe and began a discussion of post-war European Plans. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski
This is when President Truman decided to drop atomic bombs to prevent the necessity for landing and fighting in the Japanese home islands. -
United Nations is created
the intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. -
Nuremburg Trials
It established the precedent that individuals are responsible for their own actions for future trials in war crimes. -
Truman Doctrine
It 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. -
Israel is established
US supported the self-determination of the Jewish people with the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. -
Berlin Airlift
The US supplied the people of Berlin with food, water, and other supplies via air drops. -
Marshall Plan
It offered financial aid to promote economic rebuilding and prevent the fall of European countries to communism. -
US establishes NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization established a military alliance aimed at the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Union tests Atomic Bomb
This led the United States to accelerate the development of the hydrogen bomb and began a nuclear arms race. -
Korean Conflict
When the US neared the Chinese border, communist Chinese forces attacked and pushed the US back to the 38th parallel. -
Soviet Union launches Sputnik
The space race took off, the arms race to raise Cold War tensions. -
National Defense Education Act
The Us Congress passed this act to promote science and math skills as a result of Sputnik. -
Rise of the Berlin wall
The Construction begins. The rise occurs because the symbol of the Cold War to separate East and West Germany and keep people of the eastern bloc from escaping to freedom in the West through Berlin. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
It was done to prop up a friendly government because of containment policy. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
This is considered to be the end of the cold war because of changes in Soviet Union and strain of arms Afghan war on Soviet economy.
