WWII Timeline by Cedric Jackson https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv en-us 2023-05-01 15:18:54 UTC 2023-05-02 23:55:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Hitler Becomes Der Furher - January 30, 1933 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573853252 Adolf Hitler becomes German leader ]]> 2023-05-01 15:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573853252 Kristallnacht - Nov 9 - 10, 1938 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573860165 Also known as the night of broken glass. Round up German Jews and place in ghettos]]> 2023-05-01 15:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573860165 Japan invades Manchuria - Sep 18, 1931 – Feb 27, 1932 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573864504 US place an embargo (no trade) on Japan and Germany]]> 2023-05-01 15:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573864504 Mussolini takes power in Italy - October 21, 1922 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573867492  
Begins fascism (extreme nationalism and dictatorship)
]]> 2023-05-01 15:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573867492 Hitler begins to take over Europe - March 13, 1938 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573881442 Begins by Annexing (Taking over) Austria – where he is greeted like a hero]]> 2023-05-01 15:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573881442 France & G.B. practice Appeasement - 1937 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573918109 concessions to Hitler to avoid war]]> 2023-05-01 16:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573918109 Germany attack Poland - September 17, 1939 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573921042 Blitzkrieg: Lightning War – total, quick strike with tanks, planes and men]]> 2023-05-01 16:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573921042 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor - Dec 7, 1941 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573925438
“A day that will live in infamy” – FDR
-Japan destroy most of the pacific flee(ships)
 congress declares war on Japan and Germany


]]> 2023-05-01 16:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573925438 Battle of Britain - July 10-October 31, 1940 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573926884 Only Great Britain is left. constant bombing of G.B. by Germany]]> 2023-05-01 16:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573926884 By 1941 Hitler controls most of Europe jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573930031 Takes over France]]> 2023-05-01 16:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573930031 US Policy pre 1941 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573932025 US stays out of foreign conflict – isolationists]]> 2023-05-01 16:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573932025 Lend Lease Program - March 11, 1941 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573933717 “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.


]]> 2023-05-01 16:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573933717 Axis strategy to victory jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573936927 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


]]> 2023-05-01 16:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573936927 Allied Strategy to victory jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573939240 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
]]> 2023-05-01 16:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573939240 Eastern Europe becomes communist under USSR jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573941551 An ‘Iron Curtain’ has fallen on E. Europe – Winston Churchill]]> 2023-05-01 16:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573941551 Split of Germany jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573944986 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


]]> 2023-05-01 16:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2573944986 June 6, 1944 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575863827 Allies invasion of Normandy, France]]> 2023-05-02 23:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575863827 August 6, 1945 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575864887 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima]]> 2023-05-02 23:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575864887 August 9, 1945 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575865447 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki ]]> 2023-05-02 23:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575865447 Battle of Midway Jun 4, 1942 – Jun 7, 1942 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575866720 naval battle in the Pacific where US destroyed Japanese aircraft carrier ]]> 2023-05-02 23:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575866720 Battle of El Alamein - October 23, 1942 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575870565 The turning point of the North African World War The Axis army suffered defeat by the British Army]]> 2023-05-02 23:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575870565 Battle of Stalingrad - November 1942 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575871936 Allies push into North Africa]]> 2023-05-02 23:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575871936 Jima/Okinawa - February 9 – March 26 1945 jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575877656  last stops before planned attack on island of Japan
 Lots of US deaths - Japanese fight to the death]]> 2023-05-02 23:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575877656 At end of war – Truman desegregate military jacksoc242 https://padlet.com/jacksoc242/9tukmf4bm3lb46lv/wish/2575879886 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
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