Map by Hailey Woebke

Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 17:57:49 UTC

On March 7th, 1936, Nazi Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles, and reoccupied the Rhineland, which was a demilitarized zone with no troops and this showed Hitlers expansionist abitions

Washington D.C., DC

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:03:50 UTC

FDR enacts the Neutrality Acts which aimed to keep the United States out of potential foreign conflicts by restricting trade and travel to warring nations

Manchuria Yusitan, Ghulja, Ili, China

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:06:26 UTC

Japan invades Manchuria in look for more resources after US stopped giving them stuff, marking a significant step towards the Second-Sino-Japanese War and Japanese expansionism

Washington D.C., DC

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:08:09 UTC

Allowed the sale of arms to belligerent nations on a cash-and-carry basis, effectively ending the arms embargo while maintaining a ban on loans and restricting American ships from entering war zones

Washington D.C., DC

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:11:33 UTC

Lend-Lease act was a US policy that allowed the US to lend or lease war supplies to countries fighting against Nazi Germany during WW1

Washington D.C., DC

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:12:52 UTC

The Four Freedoms Speech was given by FDR and preached the four freedoms that everyone should have

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:13:31 UTC

Pearl Harbor is bombed by Japan unexpectedly, which draws the US into WW1

Washington D.C., DC

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:14:21 UTC

Congress declares war against Japan, and this marks when the US joins WW1

California

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:15:56 UTC

Japanese Internment camps are created after the US goes to war with them, these camps are mostly on the western side of the US and contained those of Japanese decent

Midway Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:17:48 UTC

Battle of Midway happens herem and it is a US victory that crippled Japan's naval power and is considered a turning point in the war

Normandy, France

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:18:44 UTC

D-Day is that start of the allied invasion on Normandy, France, and involved troops from many places around the world to fight against German forces

Hiroshima, Japan

160283_18 — 2025-04-01 18:19:43 UTC

Bombings of japan lead to immense destruction and casualties, and was the large factor in Japan's surrender