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japan invades Manchuria
In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. By February 1932, the Japanese had conquered Manchuria. Only Japan voted against it but instead of pulling out of Manchuria, Japan walked out of the League. Then in 1933, Japan invaded China. -
munich pact
This settlement formed by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy permitted German annexation of Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. -
kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany. And the German authorities looked on without intervening. -
neutrality acts of 1939
These were laws passed to limit us from future involvement in wars. They believed USA had been drawn into the war by loans and trading with allies.1935-1939 -
germany invades poland
Nazi propagandists falsely claimed that Poland had been planning with its allies Great Britain and France, to dismember Germany and that Poles were persecuting ethnic Germans. -
lend lease act
This act stated that the U.S. government could lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed they were vital to the defense of the United States. Under this policy the United States was able to supply military aid to its foreign allies during World War II while still remaining officially neutral. -
exec order 8022
President Roosevelt issued an Executive Order 8802, banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war related work. The order also established the Fair Employment Practices Commission. -
Atlantic charter/ conference
This was a policy that defined the Allied goals for the post war world, including self determination for nations and economic and social cooperation among nations. This was also wrote by FDR. -
attack on pearl harbor
Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. And within two hours 18 US warships had been sunk or damaged, 188 aircraft were destroyed and 2,403 American servicemen and women killed. This attack was aimed at our pacific fleet. -
exec order 9066
Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing exclusion. Congress then implemented the order on March 21, 1942, bypassing Public Law 503. After encouraging voluntary evacuation of the areas the Western Defense Command began involuntary removal of West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry. -
Battle of midway
The U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the air-sea battle and its successful defense of the major base located at Midway Island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the United States as a naval power and effectively turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific. -
Operation torch
This was an invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. It began on November 8 and concluded on November 16, 1942. The invasion forces had to overcome French opposition in territories controlled by the Vichy Regime under Marshall Philippe Pétain -
dday invasion
D-Day invasion 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 -
Battle of the bulge
This was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II and an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory. This battle was apart of WW ll and ended on Jan 16, 1945. -
korematsu vs the us
The conviction of Fred Korematsu a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland, California for having violated an exclusion order making him submit to forced relocation during World War II to a camp. -
united nations is created
The united nations was made after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security. Developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. -
yalta confrence
The Big Three agreed that after Germany's unconditional surrender it would be divided into a four post-war occupation zone. This was controlled by the U.S., British, French, and Soviet military forces. -
bombing of hirashma and nagasaki
An American bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later another A-bomb on Nagasaki was dropped, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials were conducted by representatives from the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges ranging from crimes against peace to crimes of war, to crimes against humanity. -
marshal plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was formed in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts. -
israel is established
The United Nations approved a plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state in 1947, but the Arabs rejected it. In May Israel was officially declared an independent state with David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, as the prime minister. -
berlin airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. The first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin. -
us establishes nato
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. After the destruction of the Second World War, Europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security. -
soviet union test atomic bomb
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code named 'RDS-1', At the Semipalatinsk test site in modern day Kazakhstan. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 had prompted Joseph Stalin to order the development of nuclear weapons within five years. -
truman doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Korean war
when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. The Chinese army attacked the US/UN forces. -
Eisenhower doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy enunciated by Dwight D. Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
eisenhower doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy enunciated under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
soviet union launches sputnik
The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. -
national defense education act
This became one of the most successful legislative initiatives in higher education. It established the legitimacy of federal funding of higher education and made substantial funds available for low-cost student loans, boosting public and private colleges and universities. -
national defense education act
The National Defense Education Act became one of the most successful legislative initiatives for higher education. This established the legitimacy of federal funding for higher education and made substantial funds available for low-cost student loans, boosting public and private colleges and universities. -
rise of the berlin wall
Cold War tensions over Berlin were running high. For East Germans dissatisfied with life under the communist system. This was a good symbol of the "Iron Curtain" that separated the democratic western countries and the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War. -
soviet invasion of afghanistan
the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, upholding the Soviet Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. The Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each. -
fall of the berlin wall
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.