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Geneva Convention
- agreement on the treatment of prisoners of war
- even though Germany signed it it did not stop them from continuing to disobey it
- agreement on the treatment of prisoners of war
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Neutrality Act
- the us could no longer trade weapons or other resources to countries which kept them out of the war
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Nuremberg Act
- segregated Jews from Reich
- made tension in Germany
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Japan Invades China
-brought Japan into the war
-realized japan had the same intentions as germany -
Kristallnacht
- showed everyone the jews had no hope for a future in Germnay
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"cash and carry"
-brought america into the war
- the united states became the resources of the allies -
Blitzkrieg
-made it easier to attack enemy
-less death -
Hitler breaks stalin agreement
- mad soviet union mad
- stalin joined allies
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Nonagreement Act
- made it hard for the allies to trust the soviet union
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Poland delcares war on Germany
- showed how Hilter intended to wage war
- first to declare war against Germany/first to fight back
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Great Britain declares war on Germany
- dlecares war becuase its allies with poland
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Poland ceases to exist
- marked beginning of war -caused tension among the people of Poland
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Hitler invades denmark, norway, netherlands, belgium, and luxebourg
- no one would stop him becuase they though if he got what he wanted he would stop but he kept going
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soviet union annex baltic states
- after war soviet union got land back
- Germany attacked soviet union which caused a lot of tension and anger
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France delcares war on Germany
-joins becuase its allies with poland
-started attacks two weeks later
-expanded the war -
luftwaffe and RAF bombings
-Germany shot down Great Britain airfield defense systems
- Britain won battle a the tides turned for them -
Tripartire Pact
- pact was created for if the US were to join war
- pact to scare the US to not fight in war
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Lend-Lease Plan
- brought th US into the war without the actual fighting
- axis powers saw the us as the allies resources
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Executive Order #8802
-prohibited racial and ethnic discrimination
-created more jobs and more equality -
US cutoff trade with Japan
-america cutoff trade because japan invaded Indochina -
Atlantic Charter
-established rules for countries to follow to prevent war
- commonality of purpose -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
- forced the US into the war
- japanese where scared of the pacific fleet even though the US was not in the war
- considered a war crime
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Us delcares war
- US joins ww2 because of pearl harbor
- Us didnt want to join until they were forced to
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selective training service act
- first peacetime draft in us history -required all men 18-65 to register for military
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U-Boat Attacks
- German ships attacked merchant ships causing battles in the Atlantic
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Executive Order #9066
- descrimmination to japanese people in the us
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Bataan
-US vs Japan
- most devastating military defeats
-symbol of Japanese brutality -
Midway
- marked turning point in war for the allies
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El alamein
- only great land battle great britian won in war
- turning point for them
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Hitler invades and splits France
- created wartime divisions that still exist today
- successful for Germany
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Stalingrad
- soviet union knew the environment better
- put Hilter and the soviet union on defense
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Island hopping strategy
- made it easier to attack and take islands
- directed towards japan
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Korematsu vs US
- equality for Japanese people when the US was fighting Japan and after Pearl harbor attack - many people didn't like Japanese immigrants
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D-Day
-forced the Germans to fight a two front war again - made germany struggle becuase they couldnt fight two front war -
liberation of the concentration camps
- freed the Jews - showed the horrors of what was actually going on
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Yalta Conference
- started end of war - set stage for cold war
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Iwo Jima
- military campaign - first battle on Japanese homeland
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potsdamn conference
- failed to settle important issue which lead to tension and more problems - pushed the cold war even more
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atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima
- intended to cause Japan to surrender
- revenge for attack on pearl harbor
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atomic bomb dropped on Nagaski
- created era of Global peace
- killed innocent people
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V-J Day
- marked end of war with Japan -concerns about being offensive toward Japan
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Period: to
Bugle
-ruined German army -marked hope for end of war
