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This agreement signed after WWI placed an inordinate amount of financial burden upon Germany. It was developed out of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
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This conference between major national powers was organized for disarmament and led to uneven proportions amongst the leading Naval powers of Britain, the US, and Japan.
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62 nations signed this agreement.
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One of the axis powers set up a puppet state.
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The appointment of a leader, the beginning of a cultural revolution in Germany.
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A series of foreign policy decisions signed into law by FDR.● 1936 - this event in the US was like a referendum on the New Deal. What followed was the Roosevelt Recession in 1937.
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In this year one of the emerging Axis powers invaded a sovereign state in Africa.
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this event in the US was like a referendum on the New Deal. What followed was the Roosevelt Recession in 1937.
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One of the Axis powers declares war on a major country in Asia.
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This event marked the advancement of violence and oppression against people in specific religious, and social categories in Germany.
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Conference in South Germany in which delegates of France, Britain, Germany, and Italy permitted territorial expansion.
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This event meant the outbreak of total war in Europe.
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Britain is victorious in the air. The London air raids begin.
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This event led to the surrender of a major western power.
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FDR addressed the nation.
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This German offensive marked the opening of the Eastern front in Europe
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A. Philip Randolph commenced these Civil Rights protests.
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Signed by FDR, for the benefit of Britain
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A joint declaration of the US and Britain.
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This surprise attack marked official US entry into the war.
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Edict limiting the freedom of citizens on the basis of ethnicity.
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This month marked the end of what major Japanese Army offensive
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This massive naval battle was a definitive turning point in the Pacific war.
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A migration of laborers into the US.
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This battle commenced US “island hopping”.
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Operation Vulcan marked the closing of this major geographical theater of combat.
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A team of engineers at the University of Pennsylvania began working to build a computing device.
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The invasion of this Mediterranean island marked the opening of a new major offensive in Europe.
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"United States Navy defeated Japan's navy at the battle of Leyte Gulf, on the eastern side of the Philippines, just north of Mindanao – the Japanese losing twenty-four major ships, including four aircraft carriers, three battleships and ten cruisers."
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"Western Allied forces in Normandy, during Operation Overlord in 1944 during World War II; the largest amphibious invasion to ever take place"
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Germany’s last major offensive.
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“Uncommon Valor was a common virtue” - Adm. Chester Nimitz
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Here, the Allied representatives discussed the post war world, and the partitioning of Germany. (President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Stalin)
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Atomic bombing and "Special Declaration"
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"The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army."
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The free world mourned the loss of a major leader.
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"Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies at Reims On May 7, 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northeastern France."
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"a meeting held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 among US, Soviet, and British leaders that established principles for the Allied occupation of Germany following the end of World War II."
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"announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, "