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Rise of Fascism and Nazism
the Nazis were the strongest party in Germany. Their leader, Adolf Hitler, dissolved parliament, took over power and made Germany a fascist state. -
Neutrality acts
A law passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was designed to keep the United States out of a possible European war by banning shipment of war materiel to belligerents at the discretion of the President and by forbidding U.S. citizens from traveling on vessels except at their own risk. -
Signing of the Non-Aggression Pact (Germany and U.S.S.R.)
shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Blitzkrieg attack on poland
This all started when the Blitzkrieg tore through the Polish military and by the end of the month Poland had surrendered to the Germans and the country was occupied. -
Germany’s expansion and annexation of Austria
the territorial expansion of Germany between 1935 and 1939, that is, before the beginning of the Second World War.Hitler’s Germany annexed his native Austria and incorporated it into the Reich as the Eastern March -
Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. Many called it a turning point and it ended when Germany’s Luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force -
Lend-Lease Act
This 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. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
President Roosevelt called dec. 7 1941 a date in which "we live in infamy". Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, this killed more than 2,300 Americans and destroyed their battleship. -
Invasion of Africa by Eisenhower
After proving himself on the battlefields of North Africa and Italy in 1942 and 1943, Eisenhower was appointed supreme commander of Operation Overlord–the Allied invasion of northwestern Europe. -
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 (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union.Many considered it to be the "turning point" in world war ll in Europe. -
Transition of the US home front to War production
The transition to peacetime was under way on the home front by 1944, it was still raging abroad. In 1943 full industrial and agricultural war production had been achieved; that is, the capability to meet the ongoing Allied needs for war materials and food had been reached. While war production did not slow down or cease, special emphasis on war mobilization was no longer needed. It was up to the armed forces on the battlefield to achieve victory -
D-Day
This day was when some (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. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Liberation of Madjdanek (concentration camp)
The Majdanek extermination camp in Lublin was liberated by Soviet troops on July 23, 1944; it was the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated by the Allies. -
The Battle of the Bulge
This was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945 -
Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe.formal acceptance by allies of WWll of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The damage was horrible and wiped out 90% of the town and immediately killed 80,000 people.Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
V-J Day
Also known as "Victory over Japan Day" which was a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. When it was signed it officially ended WWll
