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Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union's sole leader from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943.
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began on September 19, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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The policy's main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America.
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During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities.
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On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany
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They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
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The Second Italo–Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo–Abyssinian War, was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936.
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was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan
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The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1937 and 1939.
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a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria
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By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign[4][5] in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.
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It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1939.
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is the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
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The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
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1940, the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan
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The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II.
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were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt :Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, Freedom from fear
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was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Free France, the Republic of China, and other Allied nations with materiel.
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The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
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The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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national campaign that urged black people to give their all for the war effort.
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These were War Relocation Camps of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States.
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was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe,
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The Bataan Death March (Filipino: Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan Death March which began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II
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was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II
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the Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945.
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The Women's Army Corps was the women's branch of the United States Army.
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was one of the most important naval battle of WWII where the United States Navy decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy
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was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
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was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign
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was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II
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is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.
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Blitzkrieg is an anglicised term describing a method of warfare whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, and heavily backed up by close air support, forces a breakthrough into the enemy's line of defense through a series of short, fast, powerful attacks; and once in the enemy's territory, proceeds to dislocate them using speed and surprise and then encirlce them.
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The Act allowed the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by or under strikes that would interfere with war production, and prohibited unions from making contributions in federal elections.
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The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.
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were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II.
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he returned to the islands with an enormous invasion force and the largest assemblage of naval vessels in the history of mankind and liberated the Japanese from the Philippines
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was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe.
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was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union
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was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.
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passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945.
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Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event
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The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
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were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
