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Japan invades Manchuria
SIGNIFICANCE  - Japan had invaded Manchuria without declarations of war, breaching the rules of the League of Nations.

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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

SIGNIFICANCE  - His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.

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The Neutrality Act was formed

SIGNIFICANCE - keep the United States out of war, by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms.

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Appeasement Conference happened
SIGNIFICANCE -  The agreement permitting Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland was signed

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Kristallnatch
SIGNIFICANCE - when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property.

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Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler created the Non-Aggression Pact.
SIGNIFICANCE - A treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other.

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Start of WW1 (Poland)
SIGNIFICANCE - began after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914.

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Announcement of Lend-Lease act
SIGNIFICANCE - This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."

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Elanor Roosevelt flies with the Tuskegee Airmen.
SIGNIFICANCE - Flying with Anderson demonstrated the depth of Eleanor Roosevelt's support for black pilots and the Institute's training program.

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Attack of Pearl Harbor
SIGNIFICANCE -  A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor.

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"A day that will line in infamy" speech was given.
SIGNIFICANCE - Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

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Japanese Interment Camps were created.
SIGNIFICANCE -  Camp residents lost some $400 million in property during their incarceration.

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Woman Auxiliary Army was formed
SIGNIFICANCE - For the purpose of making available to the national defense the knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation.

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Battle of Midway
SIGNIFICANCE - A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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Saturday Evening Post Picture of Rosie the Riveter
SIGNIFICANCE - Associated with female defense workers during World War II.

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First mission of Tuskegee Airmen
SIGNIFICANCE -   A strafing attack on Pantelleria Island, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Normandy start of D-Day
SIGNIFICANCE - Also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region.

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Kamikaze Pilot
SIGNIFICANCE - Kamikaze aircraft were essentially pilot-guided explosive missiles, purpose-built or converted from conventional aircraft.

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Battle of Bulge
SIGNIFICANCE - Also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II.

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USSR liberate Auschwitz
SIGNIFICANCE - Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there

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Yalta Conference meeting of Allied Powers
SIGNIFICANCE -  U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.

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Death of FDR
SIGNIFICANCE - Roosevelt's health was in decline as FDR prepared in 1944 for both a fourth run at the presidency and the aftermath of World War II.

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Truman becomes president
SIGNIFICANCE - He rallied his New Deal coalition during the 1948 presidential election and won a surprise victory that secured his own presidential term.

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Assassination of Benito Mussolini
SIGNIFICANCE -  Benito Mussolini's dream of re-creating the Roman Empire, much like the crumbling Roman Forum itself, lay in ruins.

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Germany Surrenders
SIGNIFICANCE - A document unconditionally surrendering all German military forces, to take effect the following day, thereby all but ending World War II in Europe.

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V-E Day
SIGNIFICANCE - The day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the end of World War II in Europe.

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Hiroshima Atomic Bombing
SIGNIFICANCE - The first instances of atomic bombs used against humans

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Japan Surrenders
SIGNIFICANCE - Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.

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Start of Nuremberg Trials
SIGNIFICANCE - The first international war crimes tribunal in history revealed the true extent of German atrocities and held some of the most prominent Nazis accountable for their crimes.