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Rise of Facism and Nazism
Fascism was an ideology which glorified the military, denounced international organizations and cooperation, and considered war an acceptable means for achieving national goals. Hitler blamed Jews and surrounding nations for Germany's depression and thought war was only way to gain power. -
Nuetrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing outrages in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War I. Sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Germany's Expansion and Annexation of Austria
The territorial expansion of Germany between 1935 and 1939, before the beginning of the Second World War. Hitler’s Germany annexed his native Austria and incorporated it into the Reich as the Eastern March. -
Signing of the Non-Aggression Pact (Germany and USSR)
Before World War II broke out in Europe, enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Blitzkrieg Attack on Poland
Poland was attacked by Germany. The German attack was code-named Operation White . The attack on Poland started when blitzkrieg marched through the Polish army and by the end of the month Poland had surrendered to the Germans and poland as traken over be germany. -
Lend-Lease Act
Program under which the United States supplied Free France, Great Britain, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941 and ended in September 1945. In general the aid was free, although some ships were returned after the war -
Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Bombing of pearl harbory
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. Was A complete suprise, 27 hours later united states declared war on Japan. -
Invasion of Africa by Eisenhower
Also called operatio Taorch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942, to clear axis powers. -
Midway battle
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. [6][7][8] Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan planned on taking full control of pacific but failed. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union. -
Transition of the U.S. home front to war production
In 1943 full industrial and agricultural war production had been achieved; that is, the capability to meet the ongoing Allied needs for war materials and food had been reached. While war production did not slow down, special emphasis on war mobilization was no longer needed. It was up to the armed forces on the battlefield to achieve victory -
D-Day
the day of the Normandy landings—initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. 2499 American D-Day fatalities and 1915 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4414 dead -
Liberation of majdarek
The Majdanek extermination camp in Lublin was liberated by Soviet troops on July 23, 1944; it was the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated by the Allies. -
The battle of the bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
the American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. -
Battle of Okinawa
This battle was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. -
V-E day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day, or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nogaski
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in -
V-J day
Victory over japan day, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”