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Everyone had radars to lean where their opponents are. they also had atomic bombs. -
blitzkrieg means lighting war. In lightning war Germany moved fast and captured slow enemy. -
the Geneva convention are rules so prisoners can stay alive. -
Stock Market on Wall Street crashes. -
Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany. -
FDR is elected president
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Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech. -
German troops invade Poland killing everyone who is polish. -
all children leave Britain to avoid bombing. -
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declares war on Germany.
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In April the German army invaded Denmark and Norway. In May the army staged a successful two-pronged attack on France, with one division invading through Belgium and the other through the Ardennes, south of Paris.
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France lost to Germany and thousands of people outside of the military helped solider escape.
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Germans bomb Paris. -
Italy declares war on Britain and France.
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France surrenders to Germany. -
German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.
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The heavy and frequent bombing attacks on London and other cities was known as the 'Blitz'. Night after night German bombers attacked British cities, ports and industrial areas. London was bombed ever day and night for 11 weeks. One third of London was destroyed. -
Italians invade Egypt.
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axis forces invades Russia
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japan attacks the u.s. at pearl harbor
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U.S declares war on japan
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Navajo was used in WWII by the US as code in code. -
FDR orders that all Japanese Americans put in interment camps. -
U.S declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania
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the allied invasion of Normandy, France -
Just 8 minutes after U.S. Marines and Army assault troops landed on Guam, two U.S. officers plant the American flag, using a boat hook as a mast. -
Germany began the battle of the bulge
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U.S. marines invades Jami
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Germany surrenders to the allies
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V-E Day stands for Victory in Europe Day. It marks a very important event in World War 2
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Truman is elected president of the united states -
after FDR died he took control. he was the one who dropped the atomic bombs.
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first atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima
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second atomic bomb drops on Nagasaki
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japan surrenders
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children return after the war.
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V-J Day stands for Victory in Japan Day. It marks a very important event in WW2
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Japanese interment camps close
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president Truman Marshall Plan stop the US from being an isolationist country (isolated, off by ourselves) and to get more involved with the affairs of the world. The plan to stop communism from spreading was called containment.
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communism is the notion that all people should share the wealth of the world. -
my grandfather's born
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Ellsworth Kelly was an abstract painter. Ellsworth Kelly moved a lot so he had no friends. -
the day my grandmother was born
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the Vietnam War was not good for the US. The Vietnam War lasted for 20 years.
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35th President of USA, assassinated 11/22/63, famous 'Not what your country can do for you' speech. -
The Berlin Wall was made so people from east Germany couldn't go to west Germany. the wall was destroyed in 1989. -
Andy Warhol loved pop culture and he decided to paint what he loved. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the man who did the "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Lyndon B. Johnson was elected president after Kennedy was assassinated. -
Nixon was the first president to resign. -
Gerald Rudolph “Jerry” Ford, Jr was the 38th President of the United States. He was the only president not to be voted into an office. He was picked by the president to be vice president when the VP resigned because he took bribes earlier in his career. -
James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr was the 39th president of the United States. He was married to Rosalynn Smith. -
Ronald Wilson Reagan was a actor. He was the second oldest elected president. He was elected when he was 69. -
George Herbert Walker Bush was a politician in Texas. He died at home at the age of 95. -
Clinton was the first president from the baby boom generation. -
Bush was the son of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush -
Terror means fear. Terrorists work to cause fear. -
Barack Obama became the first African American to hold the office.