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World War Two
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Soviets invade Finland
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Blitzkrieg
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Kristallnact
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Germany invades Netherlands and Luxembourg
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Germany and Italy invade France
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Holocaust
A systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were jews. -
Concentration Camps
Concentration camps were used to hold people, mainly jews, in a contained area. -
Axis Powers
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Lend-Lease
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Industrial Responce
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Atlantic Charter
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A. Phillip Randolph
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Interment of Japanese
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Stalin transforms Soviet Union
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Benito Mussolini +fascism
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Kellog-Briand Pact
Also call the Pact of Paris it outlawed war. It also stirved to keep out of Europe's fighting. -
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Troop build up in Rhineland
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U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt elected president
F.D.R. was elected president and servered as president during World War II -
Winston Churchill declares war on Germany
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Quarantine Speech
The quarantine speechF.D.R. give a saying that people from "hostle nations" had to go to special interment camps for the duration of the war. -
Munich Pact
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Neville Chamberlain signs the munich pact
Peace with Honor. -
Leader of Spain Francisco Franco
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Neutrality Acts
neutrality actsThe U.S. states that they won't get involved in the war. -
Nonaggression pact
nonaggresiive pact.The pact stated that Germany and the Soviet Union would not attack each other -
The election of 1940
FDR ran for reelection againest Wendell Willkie. FDR won over Wilkie. -
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
Hitler launched a surprize invasion of denmark and norway. Germany said this action was necessary in order to "protect [those countries'] freedom and independance" -
Hideki Tojo
A militiant general who became the new prime minister of japan propsed to the emperor a "peace talk" with the united states, but on the day it was supposed to happen the prime minister ordered the Japanese navy to atack the U.S. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
German forces invaded Russia in an attempt to stamp out the resistance. after some of the biggest battles in the war, Russia pushed back the German forces. -
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps
Congress signed a bill saying women could be in the armys reserved forces. -
D-Day
The U.S. land on the beaches of Normandy to start their campain againest the axis powers. This was well portrayed in the beginning scene of Saving Private Ryan -
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's counter offense againest the allies desighned to push the Americans back. The Americans were pushed into a bulge of troops and were able to withstand the German attack. -
Troop build up in Ethiopia
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German troops march into Austria
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Battle of Britain
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Selective Service
G.I. -
Battle of the Atlantic
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North African Front
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Italian Campaign
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Unconditional Surrender
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War Plans
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Battle of the Coral Sea
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Philippines, Corregidor, Douglas MacArthur
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Battle of Midway
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Guadalcanal
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Battle of Leyte Gulf kamikazes
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Harry Truman becomes president
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Battle of Okinawa
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Yalta
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Potsdam
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Nuremberg War Trails
guiltyA series of trials that prosecuted nazis. 12 of the 22 defendants were sent to death, and most of the rest were sent to prison. In later trials 200 more nazis were found of war crimes.
