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Facist Party won 35 seats in parliment. The spread of communism scare alot of people
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formed after russian revolution
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the U.S. and 61 other nations signed the pact wgere they pledged to never make war again, this agreement permitted defensive war
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Adolf Hitler takes over government and dismantled Germany's democratic Weimar republic and started the third reich
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the sistimatic murder of 11 million people across europe more than half of whom were jews
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soviet army invades finland. after three months of fightting fins surrender
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roosevelt pushed the reciprocal trade agreement act wich lowered trade barriers by giving the president power to make trade agreements and he was aiming to reduce tariffs as much as 50%
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musolini begins building his new roman empire his first target was ethiopia by 1935 10,000 soldiers advanced into ethiopia
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congress passed a series of neautrility acts to keep the U.S. out of future wars the first two outlawed arms sales and loans to nations at war the third extended the ban to nations at civil war
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passed the third of three neautrility acts in wich the U.S. extended bans on arms sales and loans to nations undergoing civil war
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By 1936 ethiopia fell to the russian empire
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a speech against isolationsism given by roosevelt in chicago where he called peace loving nations to quarantine or isolate agressor nations to stop the spread of wat
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he was the british prime minister durring World War 2. he meet with Hitler in munich.
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gremans march into austria unopposed forcing Schuschnigg to resign. 2 days later gremany anounced that "union" with austria was complete
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political rival for the leadership of great britain. he beleived Chamerlain gave intoappeasement, or giving in to an gresser for pacify.
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beleiving hitler when he said this was his last terrarorial advance and in egerness to avoid war, daladier and chamberlain signed the munich pact. giving czechoslovakia to him
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gangs of nazi storm troopers attacked jewish homes buisnesses and synagouges across germany
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life in the camps was a cycle of hunger humiliation and hard work that only ended in death
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soviet union and germany signed a non-agression act wich stated they wouldnt fight eachother
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Germany invades Poland
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germany newest military strategie allowed germany to suprise and quickly crush all of there enemies
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war was declared on germany
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war was the key issue in this electionin the isolationists party the platform was we will not practice in foreign wars roosevelt did not accept this and added five words except in the case of an attack
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hitler launched a suprise invasion of denmark and norway germans said this action was in order to protect these coutries freedom and independence
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after germany invaded denmark and norway it turned it sights on these countries
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italy and germany invade france germans close in on paris from north italy invaded from south
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japan germany and italy signed a mutual defense treaty the tripartile pact the pact was clearly aimed at keeping the U.S. out of the war
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hitler assembled an invading fleet along the french coast because he could not compete with the naval power of britain at the same time germany launched an air warfare upon britain
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congress passed it and supported it with 7 billion dollars the U.S. eventually spent 50 billion under the act
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after pearl harbor americans jammed the recruiting offices admitting that they wanted to be "heroes" even the 5 million who volunteered for military services werent enough to face an all out war on two global fronts
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a document in wich roosevelt and churchhill spelled out the causes for wich WWII was fought it pledged that the united states and great britain wouldnot seek territorial expansions without consent of inhabitants and respect the rights of the people to choose there own government promote free trade among nations encourage international cooperation build a secure peace based on freedom from want and fear work for disagreements of agressors establish a permanent system general security
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militant japanese general became the new prime minister of japan shortly after he attended a meeting and promised to try to preserve peace with the united states but on nov. 5th 1941 the very day that tojos special peace envoy flew to washington he ordered the japanese navy to declare an attack on the united states
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a japanese dive bomber swooped low over the U.S. naval base at pearl harbor the bomber was followed by more than 180 japanesewar planesfor an hour and a half the japanese were hardly disturbed by the U.s. anti aircraft guns the last plane soared off around 9:30 am
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army cheif of staff general george marshall pushed for the formation of the waac under the bill women in the army woul not recieve the same rank pay or benefits as men in the same positions
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what awaited General Eisenhower's armies was an exhausting campaign in horrid weather against a foe whose determination was steeled by the belief that he was fighting for the very survival of his homeland