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treaty of versailles
The treaty made Germany to surrender in Africa Asia and the Pacific waters. aswell as surrender territory to other countries France and Poland; reduce the size of its military; pay war reparations to the Allied countris -
USA rejects league of nations
the League would commit the United States to an expensive organization that would reduce the United States' ability to defend its own interests -
The great depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downfall in history lasting from 1929 to 1939.By 1933 when the Great Depression reached its lowest point, some 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of all banks failed -
Hitler takes over German gov and becomes chancellor
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He convinced them that his ideas were good and they gave him power. -
Germany invades Poland
The Nazis invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. The Nazis justified the invasion by suggesting that Poland had been planning to invade Germany so they beat them to it -
Pearl harbor
surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that caused the entry of the United States into World War II -
Stalingrad
successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad Russia, U.S.S.R during World War Il It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union -
D-day
Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord in World War II. The landings began on June 6, 1944 and they marked the beginning of the liberation of German occupied Western Europe from Nazi control -
FDR
his physical health declining during the war years, he died in April 1945, less than three months into his fourth term after him stepped in Truman and he continued through WW2 this was right around Hitlers suicide -
Hiroshima
On 6 August 1945 an American B-29 bomber plane called Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. by order of Truman The city was immediately flattened Around 100,000 people were killed and another 100,000 were injured.