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Japan Seized Manchuria
Japan must expand becuase the islands do not have alot of natural resources. Japanese imperialism -
Hitler appointed chancellor
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Hitler attempts to seize austria
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Mussolini will invade ethipopia
to avaenge adowa. The league of nations did nothing except put economic sanctions on small imports and exports. They are still allowed to use the suex canal -
Hitler begins the reamerment of Germany
Hitler will begin to produce a small amount of weapons -
Remilitirization of the Rhineland
The french protest but the british will not back them. This will make hitlers popularity in Germany grow. -
Germany and Italy form Rome-Berlin Axis
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Spanish Civil War
Facist Militia will attack the popular front party.
Facists (italy, Germany funded) vs. Popular Front (Stalin funded) -
Wold exposition
Picasso painted and dislayed the guernica which showed the disatisfacion in Spain -
Anti-comintern Pact
Japan, Italy and Germany sign a anti communit/Stalin pact -
Japanese invade China
global conflict not just Euroupe -
Germany invades czech
this is the first NON german country the Germans will invade -
Hitler invades Austria
Anschluss: the Austrians do not want to break the treaty of versailles so they were againts the invasion -
Invades Czecholsloakia
Hitler is very convincing in the threats to invade in oder to "save the german brothers in czech" -
Munich conference
French, British, Germans, Italians
Phase 1: Self feternination for the sudetenland
Phase 2: Hitler says he wants the sudetenland to be out of czech
Phase 3: the other countries agress so the hitler will stop expanding -
Germany invades Poland
the Nazi-Soviet Pact will allow the germans to invade poland and will split Poland down the middle goving the eastern half to Russia
When invading there was no decleration of war and they used the Blitzkrieg so the Polish army and country was completley blindsided -
Great Britian and France declare war on Germany
The armies are moblized but no troops are sent to poland
Sitzkreig- Phony war -
Invasion of Norway and Denmark
Hitler will invade the two countries inorder to create landing space for he places and docking locations near britain -
Winston Churchill becomes Prime minister
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Hitlers invasion of Netherlands
Meant to be neutral -
Hitlers invasion of Belgium
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Miracle of Dunkirk
Almost all of the british and french troops were saved off the beaches of dunkirk and brought to britain across the english channel. Many civilian vessels were used in the escape -
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Fall of France
Third republic collapses and the country will split into Germans occupied France and Vichy France which was working with the Germans -
Italians declare war on France
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Battle of Britain
Hitler will bomb London night and day -
Mussolini will invade North Africa
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Hitlers invasion of Greece
Italians will get stuck in Greece and will need the Germans help to get out the Germans will defeat the Greeks very swiftly and then send General Rommel to North Africa -
FDR will pass the Lend-lease Act
Gives weapons and money to Britain and Russian -
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler will prepare his soilers for the invasion of the USSR they were looking for resources, the large concentration of Jews, ideological, living space(lebenstraum) -
Operation Barbarossa is launched
in the first day hitler will move 50 miiles into russa,
90% of soviet airforce is wiped out and it will take a long time to fight back becuase stalin had killed alomst all of the pervious army -
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Seige of Leningrad
Lasted 900 days and the people of russia were trapped within the city but then the russian army surrounded the Russians and the Russians will eventually win because of the perserverance of the Russian people -
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Winter for Germans in Russia
Stalin ordered a scorched earth policy and the peasants followed his orders, hitlers army was not prepared for the winter, thier tanks froze, cars didnt work, and they did not have winter uniforms so the soilders were freezing
by december stalin will launch a counter attack against the weakend german forces -
Pearl Harbor
as japan expanded downwards the americans will place an embargo on the japanese. The base was on low alert but was partially caught off gaurd. -
US declared war against Japanese
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Germany declares war against US
Us joins allied and continues the relations with vichy France but does not trust them -
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Rapid expansion of Japanese empire
Japan will take singapore, french indo china, Philippines, Dutch east indies
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere -
internment camps for Japs begin
in colorado and california. The citizes were alowed to only bring a small amount of belongings and were given food but only enough so they didnt die -
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Battle at Midway
Midway islands were important for the war becuase it was in the middle of the Pacific and would show who would be in the lead for the W -
Battle of Coral Sea
US knew jpanese were going to australia and the US planned to intercept the japanese forces. Fought with aircraft carriers -
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Hitler will make an attack on Stalingrad
There are oil feilds past stalingrad and Germans will get stuck in the Russia and the Russians fight very hard. The germans will try and retreat but Hitler will not allow it. They end up surrendering in 1943, they are now on the offensive. -
Fall of North African Campaign
Rommel will be defeated by the british (monty) at Battle of El Alamein -
Allies will begin to bomb Germany
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Surrender of stalingrad
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The warsaw ghetto will rebel
Many Jews knew about the final solution so they rebelled -
Patten and montgomery will land in sicily
Move from scicily onto the italian peninsula and try to work thier way up -
Mussolini will be overthrown
Italy is declared a republic and will join the allies. hitler will invade the day after and will take Rome. -
Operation Torch
Eisenhower will bring troops to Morocco and algeria by the end of 1943 the allies will have full control of North Africa -
Tehran Conference
Stalin, FDR, and Churchill will discuss how to defeat the Germans and plan to have a second from on the french side but Churchill is worried about the large Russian influence in the Balkans and eastern Euroupe. -
Operation Overlord
Russia at this point will push further into Poland
Rome is liberated in June -
Liberation of Paris
Led by Charles de gaul and they were mostly american troops -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1st place kamakazi planes and attacks were used but it was still a clear win for the US -
FDR wins 4th term as president
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Allies cross into West Germany
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Yalta Conference
Russia promises to enter war with japan as soon as the the western war is over. Germnay is split into 4 occupational zones.
Berlin is split as well to insure that russia does not get power hungry.
Security council with 5 perminent and 9 rotating countries
General Assembly with all nations -
FDR dies
truman becomes president -
Mussolini hung
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Nuremburg trials
Many were hing and some aquitted -
Hitler commits suicide
along with a bunch of high up German officers
Russians entered into Berlin -
Germany surrendered unconditionally to allies
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VE day (victory in Euroupe)
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successful testing of the atomic bomb in new mexico
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Postdam conference
Stalin- promises free election in eastern germany and to declare war on Japan
Truman- New guy
Attlee- leading Britain becuase churchill did not get re-elected -
Desicion to frop bomb on Hiroshima
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USSR declares war on Japan
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Nagasaki
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Emperor Hirohito surrenders
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Take over of France
The first allied forced got killed becuase of the German traps but they did not have that much push back from the Germans becuase they were not placed where the Allies attacked -
Battle of the Buldge
Day after christmas the americans were encircled by hitler but another american army saved them
Russians are elected to finsh thewar in the East becuase they took the biggest toll