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Albert Einstein
Born on March 14, 1879, Einstein was the world's most famous scientist. He signed a letter that alerted FDR and gave the highest mational priority development of an atomic bomb. -
George S. Patton, Jr.
Born on November 11, 1885, Patton was an innovative tank commander. He was a senior officer in the US Army. -
Joseph Stalin
In 1924, Joseph Stalin took Vladimir Lenin's place as the communist leader. While Stalin tried to transform the Soviet Union into an industrial power, he really ended up killing at least 10 million people. -
Appeasement
In 1930, Britain and France folowed this policy. This policy granted concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will main peace. -
Adolf Hitler
In 1933, the president of the Weimar Republic appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. Similar to Stalin, Hitler had a lot of power and he used that power to establish concentration camps, where nearly 6 million Jews were exterminated. -
Genocide
Since 1933, Jews did not have the rights of citezenship. The extermination of all Jews was Hitler's "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." This is an example of genocide because there were many mass killings to exterminate a total of 6 million Jews. -
Concentration Camps
Hitler opened Nazi concentration camps where members of specially designated groups were confined. -
Anschluss
Nazi propaganda inside Austria increased. In 1938, Hitler forced Autstria to accept a union to bring Germany and Austria together, called the Anschluss -
Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact was an agreement betwen Germany, Italy and Japan. This was signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940 -
Lend-Lease Act
In March of 1941, congress authorized a sale lease, transfer or exchange of armies and supplies to any country whose defense seems vital to the defense of the US. -
Bataan Death March
More than 7,000 AMerican Filipino troops died during this journey. -
The Holocaust
On April 15, 1945, Edward R. Murrow broadcasted about his visit to a concentration camp. "I have no words," he said. The Holocause was a Nazi attempt to kill all Jews. This was because Nazis had the idea that White Gentiles were superior. -
GATT
The GATT was a treaty signed to expand world trade by reducing tarriff. -
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Dwight Eisinhower
Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. Eisenhower was a five-star General in the US Army during WWII
