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The Great Depression
This was the day that the stock market crashed. The stock Market crash is relevant to WWII because many people in countries all around the world had no jobs and no money. When this hapened people started to turn to dictators like Hitler or Mussolini who promised economic stability.Mussolini's movement was called Facism and Hitler who preached German racial superiority. -
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Hitler was voted in as the new chancellor of Germany. Hitler promised that he would help the people and do everything in his power to bring Germany back to its former glory. He preached German racial superiority and German Nationalism. -
FDR Becomes president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt becam the 32nd president of the United States after Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt was a democratic president who promised the people he would get them out of the great depression. He initiated many laws that really helped in fixing the depression like social security. -
Nuremberg laws
this was the day that the Nuremberg laws passed. The first law prohibited marriages between germans and jews while the second law prohibited the Jews from having full citizenship rights in Germany. -
Rome Berlin Axis
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Japan invades China
Japan attacked China to gain resources since the islands of Japan are pretty resource poor. -
Germany invades Austria
The Nazis invaded Austria on the 12th of March 1938. There was almost no resistance by the people about the German troops entering Austria. This was one of the first steps of Hitler creating a greater German reich of German speaking countries. -
Munich Agreement (British appeasment of Germany)
The Germans invaded Suedetland in Checzhoslovakia as the next piece of land that they wanted to take over. The leaders of France and Britain both went to Germany and agreed that Hitler could have the Suedetland in Czeczhoslovakia to make Germany happy and to prevent war. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht went through the 9th to the 10th of November. This was a series of coordinated attacks on the Jewish communities of Germany and Austria after a German born Polish Jew assassinated a German dipolmat in Paris. This was called the night of broken glass because of all the broken glass that lay from Jewish homes, synagogues and shops. 91 Jews were killed and 30,000 were taken into concentration camps. -
German Soviet Non-aggresion pact
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Germany invades Poland
The second World war started on the 1st of September of 1939. Hitler invaded Poland by using the strategy of Blitzkrieg which was a effective strategy of lightning war using tanks airplanes and land troops. The British and the French declraed war on Germany but did not help the Poles. -
Germany takes Denmark Belgium Norway and France
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Battle of Britain
The Germans bombed many places in England including Manchester, London, and Southampton. -
Japan Joins axis
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Lend Lease Act
President Roosevelt signed the Lend Lease Bill into a law on the 11th of March 1941. This act ended the U.S.'s statement of neutrality. During this time America sent out over 50.1 Billion dollars (1941 money) to the allies like Great Britain, the Soviet Union, France, China, and smaller sums to other allied countries. -
Tuskegee Airmen
On March 19th 1941 on the demand of congress the 332nd fighter group and the 477th bomber group of all African American pilots were formed.The Tuskegee airmen were subject to racial discrimination in and outside the army. They were treated as trainees and were not allowed to enter the officers club. The first combat mission flown by the Tuskegee airmen was in the mediterranean on the second of June 1943. -
German invasion of Soviet Union
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Pearl Harbor
The Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on december 7 1941. This was an American naval base where many ships and planes were. The Japanes launched a full scale aerial assault on the base sinking four U.S. battleships and damaging four others. President Roosevelt gave his speech of infamy the next day and America had entered the war on both the European and Pacific fronts. -
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the riveter originated in 1942. This was based on a song which was about a factory worker named Rosie who played her part in the war effort by working in the factories. This resulted in many posters aiming at women and encouraging them to work in production lines to help the war effort. -
The Final Solution
The german Final solution was implemented in 1942. Hitler was not the architecht to this plan but mearly a supporter. Heinrich Himmler leader of the SS made the plan.The plan was to lock up jews in concentration camps and eventually kill every single one of them. -
Japanese Incarceration
President Roosevelt passed the excecutive order 9066 which let Japanese Americans that lived on the pacific coast to be incarcerated. About 110,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in camps inland in secluded places like deserts. The Japanese were forced to leave their homes and stores even if they were American citizens. -
Bataan death march
The Bataan death march which beagn on April 9th was the forcible transfer of American and Filipino troops by the Japanese troops. More then 60,000 troops were transfered. Approximately ten thousand people were killed by shootings, starvation or Japanese brutality. -
Battle of Midway
The battle of midway lasted from the 4th of June to the 7th of June 1942. This was the most important naval battle in the pacific front whcih resulted in the U.S. stopped the Japanese from reaching Australia. The U.S. only lost 1 carrier but the Japanese lost 4 -
battle of Guadalcanal
This was a military campaign that went from the 7th of August 1942 to the 9th of February 1943.This was the allies first major offensive on the Pacific theater. Japan lost about 31,000 men and U.S. 7,100 men. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan project started on August 13 1942. This was a top secret U.S. military operation that first produced the atomic bombs that were to be used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Dr. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the main scientists involved in making the Atomic bomb. More than 130,000 people were employed. The project cost around 2 Billion dollars (about 26 Billion in 2013 money). -
British forces stop Rommel at al Alamein
This was the second battle of El Alamein and ended on the 11th of November 1942 -
Germans surrender at Stalingrad
On the 2nd of February of 1944 the Germans finally surrendered at Stalingrad after 5 months of fighting. this was also considered one of the most bloody battles in history.The russians lost about 1.1 million soldiers while the Germans lost less troops but surrendered because of the horrible conditions. -
D-Day
D-day was on June 6. American British and Candian forces invaded 4 beaches to break the Germans defense of the French coast. The armies all successfully broke through and this was one of the turning points of the war. The largest scale operation ever. -
Battle of the Bulge
The battle of the Bulge started on the 16th of December 1944. This was the Germans last offensive of the second world war before they started retreating. This took place in the Ardennes reigon of Europe. the Germans lost about 84000 troops and the americans 14000 -
Yalta conference
The Yalta conference was on Feburary fourth 1945. This was a meeting between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Roosevelt were the allies discussed what they would do with the post war world of europe. The meeting mainly discussed the new borders that Europe would have. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The battle of Iwo Jima lasted from the 19th of February to the 26th of march 1945. The battle included some of the bloodiest fighting in the whole war with the U.S. wanting to take over the entire island which they eventually did. Japan lost 21000 soldiers and the U.S. only 6,000 -
Battle of Okinawa
The battle of Okinawa lasted from the 1 of april to the 22 of June 1945. this was the largest amphibious assault in the second world war. In the end the Japanese lost over 100,000 soldiers and the U.S. 65,000 which was evidently and allied victory. -
Harry Truman becomes president after Roosevelt dies
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Foundation of the United Nations
50 nations met in San Francisco to discuss new peacekeeping organization to replace league of nations. On June 26 1945 all 50 nations ratified the charter and created a new peacekeeping body known as the united nations. Roosevelt urged americans to not turn their back on the world. United States is a member of the United Nations. -
Germany surrenders
The first and unoffical German surrender was on May 7th 1945 in the city of Reims in France. The German official surrender was on May 8th 1945 in Berlin. Since Hitler had killed himself prior to this event the surrender was signed by Wilhelm Keitel a field Marshal. -
Potsdamam conference
Allies held the potsdam conference to plan the end of the war. THe decision was made to put the Nazi War criminals on trial. Stalin Truman and Churchill all met. lasted to the 2nd of August 1945. -
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima was bombed on the 6th of August 1945 then later Nagasaki was bombed on the 9th of August 1945. Both bombings caused much destruction almost leveling both cities to the ground. In Hiroshima 70,000 people were killed by the blast and in Nagasaki an estimated 40,000 to 75,000 people died from the explosion. There were lots of side effects like great burns and cancers developing on the people in the bombed area. The bombings influenced Japan to surrender. -
Japan surrenders
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Nuremberg Trials
24 defendants inlcuding some of Hitlers top officials. Hermann Goering who was the head of the Gestapo. They were all charged with crimes against humanity. 19 were found guilty and 12 were sentenced to death. People are responsible for their actions even in war. -
Marshall plan
Happened in 1948 and was U.S. secretary of states George Marshall's paln to help boost European economies. The U.S. gave more than 13 billion to help the nations of Europe to get back on their feet
