Pre-AP WWII
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- Okinawa
- June 1945; Kamikaze attacks
- Joseph Stalin
- dictator of Soviet Union
- Nuremberg Race Laws
- Jews loose citizenship, no relations between Germans and Jews, all Germans had to be disease free, no Jewish housekeeper
- Invasion of italy
- by april 1945 Mussolini was captured and hung
- purges
- during rule of Stalin millions were killed
- Battle of Britain
- 1st major defeat for Hitler, radar used, stopped invasion of Britain
- a-bomb dropped
- on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Battle of Coral Sea
- prevents invasion of australia, no ship to ship combat
- FDR
- president of US
- North Africa
- operation torch; invasion of north africa; november 1942; Eisenhower vs. Rommel, led to invasion of italy
- atlantic charter
- FDR and Churchill met in middle of the atlantic ocean on August 14, 1941, set war goals
- Axis leaders
- Hitler, Tojo, Hierhieto, and Mussolini
- Germany
- declares war on US day two days after pearl harbor
- causes of WWII
- the maginot line in way of hitler, fall of Norway, invasion of poland, nazi-soviet non aggression pact
- allied generals
- Eisenhower, montgomery, MacArthur, and patten
- D-day
- normandy beach invasion by allies, paratroopers
- Adolph Hitler
- dictator of Germany
- Manchuria
- part of China invaded by Japan in 1933
- Neutrality Acts
- US passed; kept Americans off of ships of war, cash and carry, stopped loans to waring nations, repealed after Pearl harbor
- Lend-Lease Acts
- way around Neutrality Acts; gave ally nations war supplies
- Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
- Germany and Soviet Union promised not to attack each other leads to the invasion of Poland
- Christmas 1941
- Churchill and FDR meet; decide Hitler is 1st concern, will help soviets, unconditional surrender of axis powers
- Winston Churchill
- prime minister of britain
- atomic bomb
- the manhattan project
- Kristallnach
- 1938- Night of Broken Glass
- Nuremberg Trials
- held for Nazis, war crimes and crimes against peace
- battle of the bulge
- US vs. Germany, largest land battle in western europe, last german offensive
- Spanish civil war
- prelude to WWII, Germans develop blitzkrieg
- Nazi Party
- only political party allowed in Germany
- US
- declares war on Japan after Pearl Harbor
- yalta conference
- FDR wants to help soviets, and beat Germany
- Hierhito and Tojo
- leaders of Japan
- Big Three
- FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
- Munich Conference
- 1938- appeasement, gave Germany the Sudetanland
- Benito Mussolini
- dictator of Italy
- Stalingrad
- turning point of war in east, Germany attacks Soviet Union
- battle of the atlantic
- ally victory against Germans, naval battle
- Battle of Midway
- island hopping, turning point in pacific, decoded japanese message
- Pearl Harbor
- Japanese attack on US naval base in hawaii on December 7, 1941