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The Stock Market Crash of 1929
The United States stock market crashed on Black Tuesday (October 29,1929). Many people had lost their jobs, causing the start of the Great depression.
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World War II
This timeline consists of 15 events from the World War II era. (Picture Citation: http://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2013/04/28/7dffde29-c40b-11e2-a43e-02911869d855/thumbnail/620x350/bda355b390dfe13c66a14f75d9191fce/Iwo_Jima_AP243367323249.jpg) -
Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power
In 1933, the leader of the Nazis, Adolf Hitler, had become the chancellor of Germany and made the country a military dictatorship (Hitler was against communism completely). He became known as der Fuher and made Germans believe that the Aryan race was superior to Jews. (Picture Citation: http://img.zeit.de/wissen/geschichte/2017-01/adolf-hitler-reichskanzler-1933/wide__820x461__desktop) -
Benito Mussolini's Attack on Ethiopia
Benito Mussolini was the Italian leader of the fascist party in Italy and eventually formed a dictatorship; He was called el Duce or the leader. To prove Italy's power, they attacked the poorly armed Ethiopians and defeated them, starting an empire.
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Kristallnacht
The Kristallnacht (also called "The Night of The Broken Glass") was when the Nazis had gone around breaking the glass windows out of stores, homes and synagogues ran/owned by Jews. It got its name because of all the broken glass covering the streets.
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The Appeasement
Adolf Hitler and Joesph Stalin had signed a "non-aggression pact" or appeasement to protect Stalin from Hitler, but it didn't last long until Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June (Britain was the last democracy in Europe that was against the "Third Reich.").
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Germany Invades Poland
Hitler gathered his Nazi troops and sent tanks to invade Poland. He conquered Poland in less than a month because of the speed of his army and this type of fighting was called blitzkrieg (lighting war); also he called Germany the "Third Reich."
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Japan Bombings on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and the Americans had no idea that this was going to happen. At least 18 navy ships were destroyed and more than 2,000 people died (soldiers, civilians, etc.).
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The Final Solution
Hitler put the Final Solution into action, a plan for the genocide of Jews. Jews were sent to mostly extermination (sometimes concentration camps) camps to be killed through gas chambers and poor rations to cause starvation for example.
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D-Day
The American general Dwight D Eisenhower lead the Allied Powers into France to attack the Axis Powers. By the use of airplanes and ships, the Allied Powers attacked the Axis Powers and defeated them along Normandy after many long days of fighting (many died).
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Yalta Conference
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill all met at Yalta to make an agreement on world peace. They argued but eventually came up with solutions to figure out how to make peace involving Germany.
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Battle of Okinawa
In this battle many died, causing it to become the bloodiest battle in the Pacific, lasting 82 days. The type of fighting technique that the Japanese used was where kamikaze pilots crashed their planes onto U.S. navy ships. (Picture Citation: http://www.history.com/s3static/video-thumbnails/AETN-History_VMS/21/161/History_Report_Battle_of_Okinawa_Speech_SF_still_624x352.jpg) -
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a secret project that the government of the US had spent about 2 billion dollars on creating atomic bombs. The first bomb had exploded in Alamogordo, New Mexico while the other bombs were dropped in Hiroshima, Japan and Nagasaki, Japan.
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Atomic Bomb Droppings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Allies forced Japan to make a decision of surrendering or be destroyed. Japan refused to surrender, so the U.S. dropped a first atomic bomb in Hiroshima and a second in Nagasaki, injuring thousands and killing tons of people (these bombs were built through The Manhattan Project).
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V-J Day (Victory Over Japan)
On this date, Japan finally surrendered to the Allied Powers (Allied Powers held surrender ceremonies in Tokyo Bay); many Americans celebrated over the victory but never forgot about all the lost lives
(americans had confined Japanese Americans, Nisei, to internment/ relocation camps because of the war with Japan).
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Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Begin
The Nuremberg War Crimes trials (there were 13) of Nazi officials and military officers, along with some German industrialists, lawyers, doctors, etc. They were charged with the crimes such as crimes against peace and humanity (2 years later the Cold War would begin).
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