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*Japan with Military Junta takes over the then-weak Manchuria of China
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*Germany leaves the League of Nations
*Hitler declares they wouldn't be obeying the Treaty of Versailles -
*Americans wanted to stay out of war because of recovery from WWI and Great Depression
*Leaned toward Allied Powers -
*Italy wanted an Italian Sea
*They expanded to the lowly-technologized nation of Ethiopia -
*Germany broke the League of Nation's rule
*Demilitarized buffer zone between Germany and France -
*Roosevelt made this global speech to try to squelch the agressors from expansion
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*Germany seized Austria to join Axis Powers
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*Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier of France, and Chamberlain of Britain
*They figure out German ownership of Sudentenland and stop Hitler's claims of Eurpeon land
*Appeasement of Hitler -
*The first step of taking over Czechoslovakia
*Appeasement for Hitler from Munich Conference -
*aka "night of broken glass"
*Anti-Semitism act of the Germans
*d]Destroyed thosuands of Jewish buildings and establishments
*Killed 100 Jews
*Sent 26,000 to concentration camps -
*Hitler of Germany and Stalin of USSR meet
*They agree to not join and divide Poland
*Hitler broke this later -
*The official start of the war
*Hitler craftily made it seem that it was due to a Polish attack
*Poland was completely taken by three weeks time -
*U.S. would sell weapons to any other nation only if it was immediately paid in cash and transported by their own ships
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*Winter of 1939-1940
*Germany quickly took over much of Europe including Norway, Luxemburg, Bulgaria
*The Soviets invaded Russia on Nov. 30th
*The Moscow Peace Treaty was passed on March 13th -
*Marked America's entry into WWII
*Surprise attack on naval base in Hawaii
*Delayed the U.S. but not as much as Japan had wished -
*Associated with the Bataan Death March-
*After this battle, surrendered Americans and Filippinos were forced by Japanese to march for 65 miles -
*Fought strictly by carrier-based aircraft
*Supported by Australia
*Won by America against Japan -
*Chester W. Nimitz directed
*only through aircrafts
*America beat Japan's attempt at taking Midway Island -
*Last German attempt on Eastern front
*At a major city on Volga River
*Allies win -
*President Roosevelt gave the green light to begin research on developing new technology for nuclear bombs
*In secrecy
*Employed 120,000 Americans -
*aka Operation Overload
*on a beach in France
*bad conditions of cliffs (no harbor), dunes, currents, and frequent storms
*unexpected area for an element of surprise -
*Japan's navy- last attempt against MacArthur of America
*Made up of three battles on water and land, all won by Allies
*Ending defeat of Japan's naval power
*Largest Pacific battle, end of Japan's threat -
*Last attempt of Germans on Western Front, 60 miles of advance
*Alies won -
*Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill decided postwar actions
*Took place in Russia -
*aka Operation Iceberg
*Major battle of Pacific-many casualities
*Part of 3-point plan to conquer the East
*Allies won -
*Day after German government surrendered unconditionally
*All Allied Powers rejoiced -
*Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Church decided to split Germany into four parts
*Discussed after Germany's surrender -
*Done to force Japan to surrender
*Killed and injured hundreds of thousands
*8/6/1945- Hiroshima
*8/9/1945-Nagasaki -
*Two bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to give in
*Signified the final end to WWII
