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Benito Mussolini
Dictator of Italy. Dictator from 1921 from 1943. Leader of Italy during the WW2. -
Hitler become chancellor of Germany
Hitler becomes leader (dictator) of Germany. -
Hitler Remilitarizes Rhineland
Germany invaded (entered) the rhineland breaking the treaty of versailles and the lacarno treaties. -
Germany annexes Austria
German troops marched into Austria and overthrew their government. Annexed Austria within a day. -
Munich Agreement
Agreement of the regulation of "Sudetenland", a part of Czechoslovakia that was under German control. -
Germany invades Poland
Part of the blitzkrieg strategy. Beginning of WW2. Germany invades poland and take thier capital. -
Germany conquers France
Took place after the battle of France or the fall of france, when Germany invaded. -
Germany, Italy, and Japan form the Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan form the Axis Powers because they wanted to destabilize Europe. -
Lend-Lease Act
Where congress authorized the sale, lease, and exchange of weapons to whos defense aids the U.S. -
Germany invades the Soviet Union
Germany invades Soviet union to gain land. Start another war causing two fronts. -
The U.S. enters ww2
Japan bombs pearl harbor Hawaii because the U.S. refused to trade. The U.S. immediately declared war on Japan. -
Battle of Midway
Naval Battle in Pacific ocean against Japan. Callled the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.
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Battle of Guadalcanal
code-named Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi, by Allied forces.
ALLIES WON. -
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The battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.
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Operation Torch
Allied invasion of North Africa. First time British and Americans fought together. -
Tehran Conference
was a meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt,Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front.
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Liberation of Auschwitz
Soviet troops liberated larges Nazi deathcamp. Most prisoners evacuated through death march by nazi's before hand. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the U.S. captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese during World War II.
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Yalta Conference
Meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss final plans of ww2 -
The Battle of Okinawa,
Codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands. UK helped.
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V-E Day
Victory in Europe day. Win the allied forces invaded Berlin. Also a public Holiday. -
Hiroshima
Atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan killing 80,000 instantly and killing tens of thousand with radiation. -
Nagasaki
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Japan killing 40,000 instantly and more wih radiation. -
V-J Day
V-J Day is the day Japan Surreneder to the Unied States. The offical end of WW2 -
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Nuremburg Trials
Series of trials to sentence war criminals and prosecute prominent memebers of the Nazis. -
Taft-Hartley Act
A United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. -
Warsaw Pact
Collective defense /friendship treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
