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1944 BCE
Korematsu v. United States
In 1944, the Supreme Court decided that the government's policy of evacuating Japanese Americans to camps was justified on the basis of "military necessity". -
1943 BCE
U.S. convoy system
The Battle of the Atlantic is when the Germans sank American ships so that they could not bring supplies to Great Britain and the Soviet Union. In 6 months they sank 681 ships. The Allies cargo ships into convoys. The ships travelled together with destroyers and airplanes to spot U-boats. That was in 1943. -
1943 BCE
Unconditional surrender
Enemy nations had to accept what ever terms of peace the Allies dictated. -
1942 BCE
Battle of the Atlantic
After the attack on Pearl Harbor Hitler ordered submarine raids against ships along America's east coast. the German aim in the Battle of the Atlantic was to prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union. -
Period: 1942 BCE to 1945 BCE
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Roosevelt responded to this threat. It fought inflation by freezing wages, prices, and rents on most goods. It rationed foods, such as meat, butter, cheese, vegetables, sugar, and coffee. The higher taxes reduced consumer demand on scare goods by leaving workers with less to spend. -
Period: 1942 BCE to 1945 BCE
War Productions Board (WPB)
It assumed that responsibility. It decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries. It rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort, such as gasoline, heating oil, materials, rubber, and plastics. -
Period: 1941 BCE to 1942 BCE
Manhattan Project
The committee reported that it would take from 3 to 5 years to build an atomic bomb. Hoping to shorten that time, the OSRD set up an intensive program to develop a bomb as quickly as possible. Because much of the early research was performed at Columbia University in Manhattan, it became the code name for research work that extended across the country. -
1940 BCE
The Battle of Britain
The Germans began to assemble an invasion fleet along the French coast in the summer. Because of its naval power could not compete with that of Britain, Germany also launched an air war at the same time. The Luftwaffe began making bombing runs over Britain. -
1940 BCE
Lend-Lease Act
The president would lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the United States. -
1936 BCE
Francisco Franco
A group of Spanish army officers rebelled against the Spanish republic in 1936. Revolts broke out all over Spain, and the Spanish Civil War began. -
1935 BCE
Hitler invades the Rhineland
Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, a German region bordering France and Belgium that was demilitarized as a result of the Treaty of Versaillies a year later. The League did nothing to stop Hitler. -
Period: 1935 BCE to
Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia
Tens of thousands of Italian soldiers stood ready to advance on Ethiopia by the fall of 1935 and by May 1936, Ethiopia had fallen. -
1933 BCE
Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany
In 1919, Hitler joined the Nazi party quickly became its leader. Nazism is the German brand of fascism. Hitler dreamed of a great German empire, and national expansion. He enforced racial "purification". War debts had hurt the German economy. Many employed men joined Hitlers army. In 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor and quickly replaced democracy with The 3rd Reich. -
Period: 1933 BCE to 1935 BCE
Hitler's military build-up in Germany
Hitler pulled Germany out of the League in 1933 and in 1935 he began a military buildup in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. -
1932 BCE
Storm troopers
They were people in Hitler's private army. -
1931 BCE
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
In 1931, ignoring the protests of more moderate Japanese officials, the militarists launched a surprise Attack and seized control of the Chinese province of Manchuria. -
1925 BCE
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf was the book that Hitler wrote. It was to secure more land for German. -
1924 BCE
Joseph Stalin's totalitarian government in the Soviet Union
From 1924 to 1939 Stalin worked as establish a totalitarian government with complete over its citizen. People had no individual rights and the government controlled everything such as farms and economic activities. -
Benito Mussolini's fascist government in Italy
In 1921 Mussolini established the Fascist party which put the state above individuals. In 1922 when many important government officials, the army, and the police sided with the Fascist, the Italian king appointed Mussolini head of the government. -
3rd Reich
According to Hitler, the 3rd Reich would be a "Thousand-Year Reich "-it would last for thousand years. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
The alliance that was formally signed by the German and Italian dictators as they backed the forces of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. -
Hitler's Anchluss
German troops marched into Austria unopposed in Germany announced that its Union with Austria was complete. -
Munich Agreement
Hitler declared that the annexation of Sudetenland, a mountain region in Czechoslovakia that bordered Germany would be his last territorial demand. The Munich Agreement turned this land over to Germany with out a shot being fired. -
Nonaggression pact
Fascist Germany and communist Russia signed an agreement to never attack each other. -
Blitzkrieg
A new military tactic used to invade Poland. It made use of powerful aircrafts, dropping bombs, and fast tanks overwhelming the opposition. -
Britain & France declare war on Germany
2 days after the terror in Poland, Britain and france officially declared war on Germany. -
Phony war
French and British troops on the maginot line stared into Germany as German troops on the siegfried line sat and stared back. -
Hitler's invasion of Denmark & Norway
Hitler launched a surprised invasion of Denmark and Norway. He claimed to be protecting freedom and independence but truly planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain. -
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Hitler's invasion of the Netherlands
He launched a surprise invasion of Denmark and Norway in order "to protect [those countries'] freedom and independence." But in truth, Hitler planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain. Next, Hitler turned against the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, which were overrun by the end of May. The phony war had ended. -
Marshall Philippe Petain
Germans would occupy the northern part of France, and a Nazi-controlled puppet government, headed by Marshall Philippe Petain, would be set up at Vichy, in southern France. -
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Battle of Stalingrad
The Germans have been fighting in the Soviet Union since June 1941. In November 1941, the bitter cold had stopped them in their tracks outside the Soviet cities of Moscow and Leningrad. When spring came, the German tanks were ready to roll. -
Pearl Harbour attack
A Japanese dive-bomber swooped low over Pearl Harbour the largest U.S. naval base in the Pacific. -
Internment
Frightened people believed false rumors that Japanese Americans were committing sabotage by mining coastal harbors and poisoning vegetables. Early in 1942, the war Department called for the mass evacuation of all Japanese Americans from Hawaii. -
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
Women volunteers served in noncombat positions. The military's work force needs were so great that the Army Chief or Staff General George Marshall pushed for the formation. -
Operation Torch
An invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa, commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Period: to 1945 BCE
Blood Anzio
The Germans armies continued to put up strong resistance during the year after Anzio. -
D-Day
Banking on a forecast for clearing skies, Eisenhower gave the go-ahead on the first day of the invasion. Three divisions parachuted down behind German lines shortly right after midnight. -
The Battle of the Bulge
Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines that gave this desperate last ditch offensive its name. -
Harry S. Truman
Truman became the president when president Roosevelt Died of a stroke. -
Death of Hitler
Hitler could tell that there are not winning. He shut himself. He shot himself as his wife took him. -
V-E Day
The Allies celebrated Victory in Europe Day. the war in Europe was finally over. -
Germany & Italy's invasion of France
A few days later, Italy entered the war on the side of Germany and invaded France from the south as the Germans closed in Paris from the north.
