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Japan invaded Manchuria. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
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FDR was the 37th quadrennial presidential election. FDR had won by a landslide.
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Hitler sets up Dachau concentration camp.
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A huge relief for many buisnesses and people.
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A military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China.
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Owens won four gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
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General Francisco Franco lead a fascist rebellion in Spain. A spanish military leader who was the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death.
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The 38th president.
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Earhart attempting her solo round-the-world flight. A famous, miraculous woman known for her courageous efforts with airplanes as a woman during the 1930s.
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Kristallnacht, also known as the "Night of Broken Glass" was an anti-semetic program throughout Germany.
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To avoid war, Britain and France met German needs.
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The Germans invadedthe north, south, and west. Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east.
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Dictators in Europe and Japan seized territory and threatened democratic governments. Japan joins the axis power.
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The election took place as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression. FDR broke tradition and ran for a third term, which became a major issue.
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German military and authorities planned a war against the Communists and the Jews of the Soviet Union. Which they grouped as forming the "racial basis" for the Soviet state.
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Entered after Pearl Harbor attack.
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor which is what sparked WWII.
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The Nazis develop the "final solution" for exterminating the Jews.
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US had a victory over Japan which marked the turning point of the war just off the island of Midway.
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Japanese Americans are sent to relocation centers.
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Roosevelt makes the War Production Board to coordinate mobilization.
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Rommel's forces surrender in North Africa. He was known as the Desert Fox. A German Field Marshal of World War II. He earned the respect of both his own troops and his enemies.
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Zoot-Suit Riots take place in Los Angeles, California between the white sailors and marines that were stationed in the city.
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President Roosevelt is elected to a fourth term.
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An island that writer William Manchester descridbed as "an ugly, smelly glob of cold lava squatting in a surly ocean." Iwo Jima means "sulfur island" in Japanese
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Upon the death of FDR, Truman automatically becomes president from his previous position as vice president.
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Hitler burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumed a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol. It is believed that both he and his wife swallowed cyanide capsules. For good measure, he shot himself with his service pistol.
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The allies announced the surrender of Germany,
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Us marines invaded Okinawa. The cost was predicted to be a million American lives and half that number for British lives.
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After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
