# data[].attributes.headline
Mussolini takes power in Italy - October 21, 1922

# data[].attributes.subject
Mussolini takes power in Italy - October 21, 1922

# data[].attributes.body
Begins fascism (extreme nationalism and dictatorship)

# data[].attributes.headline
Japan invades Manchuria - Sep 18, 1931 – Feb 27, 1932

# data[].attributes.subject
Japan invades Manchuria - Sep 18, 1931 – Feb 27, 1932

# data[].attributes.body
US place an embargo (no trade) on Japan and Germany

# data[].attributes.headline
Hitler Becomes Der Furher - January 30, 1933

# data[].attributes.subject
Hitler Becomes Der Furher - January 30, 1933

# data[].attributes.body
Adolf Hitler becomes German leader

# data[].attributes.headline
France & G.B. practice Appeasement - 1937

# data[].attributes.subject
France & G.B. practice Appeasement - 1937

# data[].attributes.body
concessions to Hitler to avoid war

# data[].attributes.headline
Hitler begins to take over Europe - March 13, 1938

# data[].attributes.subject
Hitler begins to take over Europe - March 13, 1938

# data[].attributes.body
Begins by Annexing (Taking over) Austria – where he is greeted like a hero

# data[].attributes.body
Also known as the night of broken glass. Round up German Jews and place in ghettos

# data[].attributes.headline
Germany attack Poland - September 17, 1939

# data[].attributes.subject
Germany attack Poland - September 17, 1939

# data[].attributes.body
Blitzkrieg: Lightning War – total, quick strike with tanks, planes and men

# data[].attributes.headline
Battle of Britain - July 10-October 31, 1940

# data[].attributes.subject
Battle of Britain - July 10-October 31, 1940

# data[].attributes.body
Only Great Britain is left. constant bombing of G.B. by Germany

# data[].attributes.body
US stays out of foreign conflict – isolationists

# data[].attributes.body
Takes over France

# data[].attributes.body
“lending a garden hose to a next door neighbor whose house is on fire” – US will lend all old military equipment to help G.B.

# data[].attributes.headline
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor - Dec 7, 1941

# data[].attributes.subject
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor - Dec 7, 1941

# data[].attributes.body
“A day that will live in infamy” – FDR

-Japan destroy most of the pacific flee(ships)
congress declares war on Japan and Germany

# data[].attributes.body
Germany – Hope to take Soviet Union (USSR) quickly Force Great Britain to quit. Go after US w/submarines

Japan – after Pearl Harbor no US Fleet Attack islands in Pacific Ocean create a ‘Pacific Rim’ from Japan to Hawaii

# data[].attributes.body
Defeat Hitler 1st in Europe – then target Japan

USSR/Gr. Britain – extend war so US can get it together and make an impact

South Pacific – ‘Island Hopping’ campaign – US attack island to island closing in on Japan

# data[].attributes.headline
Eastern Europe becomes communist under USSR

# data[].attributes.subject
Eastern Europe becomes communist under USSR

# data[].attributes.body
An ‘Iron Curtain’ has fallen on E. Europe – Winston Churchill

# data[].attributes.headline
Battle of Midway Jun 4, 1942 – Jun 7, 1942

# data[].attributes.subject
Battle of Midway Jun 4, 1942 – Jun 7, 1942

# data[].attributes.body
naval battle in the Pacific where US destroyed Japanese aircraft carrier

# data[].attributes.body
The turning point of the North African World War The Axis army suffered defeat by the British Army

# data[].attributes.body
Allies push into North Africa

# data[].attributes.body
Allies invasion of Normandy, France

# data[].attributes.headline
Jima/Okinawa - February 9 – March 26 1945

# data[].attributes.subject
Jima/Okinawa - February 9 – March 26 1945

# data[].attributes.body
last stops before planned attack on island of Japan
Lots of US deaths - Japanese fight to the death

# data[].attributes.body
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

# data[].attributes.body
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

# data[].attributes.body
Germany is split in two halves USSR/communist and half democratic control by France,US and Great Britain

German capital Berlin split in two East Berlin – communist/USSR and West Berlin Allied controlled

# data[].attributes.headline
At end of war – Truman desegregate military 

# data[].attributes.subject
At end of war – Truman desegregate military 

# data[].attributes.body
African american serve in military combat

Notable minority units:
Tuskegee Airmen (pilots)

Nisei Units: Asian Amer. Combat unit that serves in Pacific

Navajo Nat. Am – ‘wind-talkers’ – only code not broke during war