WWII Twitter Timeline

By KatieK
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler came to power and created a dictatorship.
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    Neutrality Acts

    Tried to keep america out of WW2 by making it illegal for America to sell arms or other war materials
  • Nuremberg Laws

    This law deprived Jews of rights. It was the beginning of this discrimination that only continued to get worse,
  • Munich Pact

    British and French pact with Germany to not break out in war, but gave Czechoslovakia away.
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    Kristallnacht

    Nazis in Germany torched and vandalized Jewish homes, shops, and synagogues.
  • Non-aggression Pact

    The German-Soviet pact was signed. No military action against each other for the next 10 years.
  • Cash-and-Carry Policy

    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Replaced neutrality acts and allowed the US to sell arms or war supplies as long as the other country arranged for it to be picked up and paid for in cash.
  • Tuskegee Institute training African-Americans to become pilots

    Provided a way for people of color to get air training to become pilots during WW2.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Gave President Roosevelt ability to give war supplies such as planes and food without disrupting the US neutrality acts.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Was intended to destroy morale in the US navy and keep the US from fighting back. The US base on Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan.
  • Rosie the Riveter(Women joining workforce)

    Represented the women who were needed to work in the factories or other places needed to fund the war. Many were needed to replace male workers that went off to war.
  • Manhattan Project

    Produced the first atomic bomb. It was supported by the UK and Canada.
  • War Production Board being established

    Was given supreme authority to acquire materials and the industrial production programs that were needed in the war.
  • Japanese Internment(Executive Order 9066)

    Authorized the evacuation of all people that were deemed a threat to nation security, all of Japanese descent/ancestry. They were moved from the west coast to further inland.
  • Battle of Midway

    Major naval battle in the pacific theater. US defended the major base located on Midway against the Japanese.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrand stopped the Germans from continuing into the Soviet union and market the turning of the war in favor of the Allies.
  • 422nd Infantry Regiment fighting in the Pacific Theater

    Most decorated for its size and length of service. It was a segregated African American Unit. They helped drive Germans out of Italy.
  • D – Day

    Allied forces invaded northern France on the beach in Normandy. Was the turn for Nazi Germany and allowed allied forces to start to gain control.
  • Liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

    The liberation of the concentration camp by the Red Army.
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    Iwo Jima

    The US captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan. This was a strategic location and helped stop attacks from Japan.
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    Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    The US detonated two nuclear weapons on these two cities in Japan. They killed lots of civilians.
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    Nuremberg trials

    They were war crime trials held in Europe and Asia. It broke down the German leadership and brought punishment for what they did.

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