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Japan invades Manchuria (September 18, 1931)

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Japan invades Manchuria (September 18, 1931)

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Japan invades Manchuria in hopes to gain raw materials to fuel it's industry. Japan then occupied Manchuria for about 5 months.

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He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.

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The Nazis started violently rioting against the Jewish population in Germany. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes.

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The US placed an embargo on Japan meaning that they cut off trade with them. The US did this because Japan was taking over French military bases in Indochina. By placing an embargo on Japan, they didn't have enough oil to fuel their war machines.

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Benito Mussolini coined the term “fascism” in 1919 to describe his political movement. Mussolini's Fascist takeover of Italy was an inspiration and example for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Austria was annexed to re-unite all Germans who were either born in the Reich or living outside it in order to create an "all-German Reich". Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf (1925) that he would crea

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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II after the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor. They sought to clear the way for Japanese strikes on Midway, Fiji, Samoa, and Hawaii by luring the American aircraft carriers into a trap. Inaccurate Japanese predictions of the American response and poor first dispositions destroyed the plan.

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Appeasement is complying to the demands of a potentially hostile nation in hopes of maintaining peace.

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The act of confining people especially for political or military reasons.

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Poland and Blitzkrieg (Sep 1, 1939 – Oct 6, 1939)

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Poland and Blitzkrieg (Sep 1, 1939 – Oct 6, 1939)

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The start of World War II was signaled by the invasion of Poland, a coordinated assault on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union.

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The Battle of France, resulted in the capture and subjugation of not only France but three other countries – Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Aerial Battle over Great Britain (Jul 10, 1940 – Oct 31, 1940)

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Aerial Battle over Great Britain (Jul 10, 1940 – Oct 31, 1940)

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In the summer and fall of 1940, a significant air battle known as the Battle of Britain was fought primarily over southern England. Germany intended to acquire air superiority in order to invade Great Britain following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk and the Fall of France.

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The lend lease program meant the United States would be able to lend or lease war supplies to any country it thought of to be "vital to the defense of the United States." FDR said "I don't want $15--I want my garden hose back after the fire is over. "

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that December 7, 1941, would "live in infamy," and that day, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise aircraft attack on Pearl Harbor. Due to Japan's prompt declaration of war in response to this unprovoked attack, the United States entered World War II.

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The U.S. Senate refused to join the League of Nations, the United States then entered a period of “isolationism” that lasted from the 1920s to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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The Navajo Wind talkers were very helpful in every major Marine operation in the Pacific theater. It gave the Marines the advantage in the war. They created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language. The code primarily used word association by assigning a Navajo word to key phrases and military tactics.

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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American soldiers to successfully complete their training and enter the Army Air Corps . Almost 1000 aviators were produced as America's first African American military pilots.

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The British victory at El Alamein was the beginning of the end of the Western Desert Campaign, eliminating the Axis threat to Egypt, the Suez Canal and the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields.

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One of the Second World War's Eastern Front's most important events was Stalingrad. In and around this strategically significant city on the Volga river, the Soviet Union dealt the German Army a terrible loss that had far-reaching consequences. It was also the first time that the Hitler regime admitted a military defeat.

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During World War II, Nisei, or second generation Japanese Americans, requested the opportunity to enlist. They encountered severe discrimination, yet they still wanted to serve their country. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the removal of Japanese Americans who were residing on the west coast on February 9, 1942.

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The allied armies' land, air, and sea forces came together on June 6, 1944, during the D-Day operation, to form the biggest invading force in history. Five naval assault divisions were deployed to the beaches of Normandy, France.

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One of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history. U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima after months of naval and aerial bombardment. Deep under the volcanic rocks, the Japanese defenders of the island were holed up in bunkers. The US won after both sides had paid a devastating toll in lives.

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Atomic Bombs Hiroshima/Nagasaki (August 6 & 9th 1945)

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Atomic Bombs Hiroshima/Nagasaki (August 6 & 9th 1945)

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The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people.

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The Cold War division between capitalist and communist countries was symbolized by the Iron Curtain. The Warsaw Pact was formed by countries on the communist side, while N.A.T.O. was formed by countries on the capitalist side.

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Germany was divided into four zones after World War II because the Allies each desired to have some kind of authority over it. West Germany and East Germany, which were divided by the Berlin Wall, eventually combined from these two.

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The Axis claimed that their goals were to overthrow the power of the oligarchic Western states and protect civilization from Communism.

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The goals of the Allies was to defeat the Nazis and drive the Germans back. Hitler's Germany posed the strongest threat to the Allies. The German army seemed to be on the verge of crushing the Soviet army, which had previously been an ally.

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The Final Solution or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II. Other groups targeted: Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Prisoners of War, and those who were Mentally ill. ​