WWII & Cold War

  • Munich pact

    Britain and France agreed to allow Hitler more land in exchange for Hitlers agreement to seek no more land after that concession
  • Japan invades manchuria

    Started Japanese aggression against China and Indochina. Japan intended on making a Japanese sphere of economic domination
  • Nuremberg Trials

    anti-Semitic and racial laws passed by Hitler in 1935 which restricted the rights of Jewish
  • Kristallnacht

    Nazi in Germany torched and vandalized Jewish homes and schools and killed close to 100 jews
  • Neutrality Acts

    Allowed nations at war to buy goods from the U.S if they were to pay cash upfront and carry the merchandise on their own ships.
  • Germany invades poland

    Led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Congress authorized Roosevelt to sell, transfer, lease, lend our otherwise dispose of any such government
  • Atlantic Charter

    The process of changing from peacetime to wartime economy in the U.S began even before the U.S war, FDR & British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter
  • Executive Order 8802

    A leader of an African American labor union threatened to organize a march on Washington demanding equal wartime jobs, in response to FDR Exec Order 8802 prohibiting racial or ethnic discrimination
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    The surprise attack by the Japanese Pearl Harbor Naval Base, also near airfields, they attacked because US embargoes
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066 authorized the internment of Americans of Japanese descent from Japan.
  • Battle of Midway

    Stopped the Japanese from advancing and put the in the defense
  • Operation Torch

    Invasion of North Africa was launched to free the Mediterranean Sea from German control and protect the oil fields in the middle east
  • D - Day

    The invasion of Normandy provided the long-awaited western front Germany was now engaged on 3 fronts and had to divert resources to a western front
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    Battle of Bulge

    Were the last German offensive and the beginning of the end of the Nazi
  • Korematsu v. United States

    Fred Korematsu was a Japanese American who refused to leave his home per Exec Order 9066 in Japanese and residents aliens.
  • Yalta Conference

    Churchill, FDR, Stalin discussing final plans for the defeat of Europe & began a discussion of post-war European Plans
  • United Nations is Created

    The intergovernmental organization tasked to promote internation cooperation and to create and maintain international order
  • Truman Doctrine

    Pledged to contain communism in Europe and was first supplied when the United States supplied military and financial aid
  • Marshall Plan

    Trying to prevent European countries to fall to communism
  • Israel is established

    The US supported the self-determination of Jewish people with the creation of the state of israel
  • Berlin Airlift

    The US supplied the people of Berlin with food, water and other supplies via airdrops.
  • US establishes NATO

    They established a military alliance aimed at the Soviet Union
  • Soviet Union tests Atomic Bomb

    this led the United States to accelerate the development of the hydrogen bomb and began a nuclear arms race.
  • Korean Conflict (War)

    Communist North Korea invaded South Korea
  • Soviet Union launches Sputnik

    The space race took off when the soviet union launched sputnik
  • Rise of Berlin wall

    Was all just to separate east & west Germany and keep people of the eastern bloc from escaping to freedom in the west through Berlin