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Japan invades Manchuria
Japan claimed that the Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway and they attacked the Chinese army. By February 1932 The Japanese had conquered the whole of Manchuria. -
Munich Pact
British and French prime minister sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement was the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to the German conquest. -
Kristallnact
German Nazis attacked Jewish people and their property. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany possessed overwhelming military superiority over Poland. The assault on Poland demonstrated Germany's ability to combine power and armor in a new kind of warfare. -
Neutrality Acts of 1939
This act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of cash and carry. -
Exec Order 8022
President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 banning discriminatory employment practices by federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war work. -
Atlantic Charter/ Atlantic Conference
It was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.it provided aborad stated of the U.S and British War aims. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Senate passed a $5.98 billion supplemental Lend-lease bill bringing the united states one step closer to direct involvement in world war 2 -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan Staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, decimating the US Pacific Fleet. Germany and Italy declared war on the United States and now it in the global war. -
Exec Order 9066
this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the west coast to relocation centers further inland. -
Battle of Midway
it was a successful defense of the major base located at Midway island dashed Japan's hopes of neutralizing the united states as a naval power. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the second world war. -
Korematsu v. United States
A legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld 6-3 the conviction of Fred Korematsu a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in relocation during world war 2. -
D-Day ( invasion of Normandy)
More than 160,00 allied troops landed along a 50 mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Battle of the Bulge
It is the last major German offensive on the Westen Front during ww2. it was an unsuccessful attempt t push the allies back from german home territory. -
Yalta Conference
the big three agreed that after Germany's unconditional surrender, it would be divided into four post-war zones controlled by U.S., British, French, Soviet military forces. -
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagaski and 40,000. -
United Nations is created
it was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership. -
Nuremberg Trials
the verdicts in the major war criminals trial. twelve defendants were sentenced to death three to life and four long prison terms. -
Truman Doctrine
Turman presented this address before a session of congress he asked congress for 400 million in the military and economic assistance for turkey and Greece. -
Marshall Plan
Truman sent Congress a message that followed Marshall's ideas to provide economic aid to Europe. -
Israel is Established
David Ben-Gurion the head of the Jewish Agency proclaimed the establishment of the state of Israel. -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet forces blockaded all road, rail, and water routes into berlin's allied controlled area, stifling the vital flow of food, coal, and other supplies. -
US establishes NATO
it was the first peacetime military alliance the united states entered into outside of the western hemisphere. -
Soviet Union test atomic bomb
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test code-named RDS-1c. -
Korean Conflict ( war)
The Korean War began when North Korean troops pushed into South Korea and the war lasted until 1953. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
the middle eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
Soviet Union launches Sputnik
the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1. -
National defense Education Act
it was signed into law proving funding to united states education institutions at all levels. -
Rise of the Berlin Wall
the Communist government of the german democratic republic began to build barbed wire and concrete. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
the soviet intervention in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan war. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Five days after half a million people gathered in east berlin in a mass protest that the berlin wall diving communist east Germany from west Germany crumbled.
