World War 2

  • treaty of Versailles

    treaty of Versailles

    Was an alliance signed happened 5 years after Ferdinand's assassination this was done in the Hall of mirrors in the Pa lacy of Versailles.
  • Japan Invades Manchuria

    Japan Invades Manchuria

    This was called following the mukden a staged bombing of a Japanese owned railway track which Japan blamed on China.
  • Blitzkreig

    Blitzkreig

    a German military tactic that combined massed mechanized ground forces, particularly armored divisions, with close air support to create a rapid, overwhelming surprise attack designed to break through enemy defenses and encircle opposing forces
  • Italy Invades Ethiopia

    Italy Invades Ethiopia

    Benito Mussolini's fascist regime caused many war crimes and other really bad things overwhelming Ethiopian forces.
  • the remilitarization of rhineland

    the remilitarization of rhineland

    when Nazi Germany forced entered Rhineland reoccupying Rhineland and breaking the rules of the treaty of Versailles.
  • cash and carry

    cash and carry

    allowed warring nations to buy American goods, including arms, by paying in cash and transporting the goods on their own ships
  • lend and lease

    lend and lease

    allowed warring nations to buy American goods, including arms, by paying in cash and transporting the goods on their own ships
  • anschluss

    anschluss

    this was an aggressive territorially do by Hitler and his regime
  • Evian conference

    Evian conference

    Evian Conference was a meeting of 32 countries to address the growing crisis of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution
  • Munich conference

    Munich conference

    the muinch agreement was a agreement between Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy
  • MS saint louis

    MS saint louis

    a German ocean liner that, in 1939, carried nearly 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany who were denied entry to Cuba and the United States
  • Wagner Rogers bill

    Wagner Rogers bill

    U.S. legislative proposal to allow 20,000 refugee children, primarily Jewish, from the Greater German Reich to enter the United States over two years, outside the existing immigration quotas
  • nazi-sovet pact

    nazi-sovet pact

    a pack between the Nazi and the soviets
  • invasion of Poland

    invasion of Poland

    began World War II, using a tactic of Blitzkrieg (lightning war) of air power, tanks, and artillery to overwhelm the Polish forces
  • Destroyers of bases agreement

    Destroyers of bases agreement

    a 1940 deal where the United States gave Britain 50 World War I-era destroyers in exchange for 99-year leases to establish American naval and air bases on British-controlled territory in the Atlantic and Caribbean
  • blitzkreig

    blitzkreig

    German military tactic combining fast-moving armored tanks, motorized infantry, and air support to achieve a decisive breakthrough at a single point, known as the Schwerpunkt
  • Battle of britian

    Battle of britian

    German military tactic combining fast-moving armored tanks, motorized infantry, and air support to achieve a decisive breakthrough at a single point, known as the Schwerpunkt
  • Atlantic chater

    Atlantic chater

    a declaration of principles, including self-determination, freedom from fear and want, free seas, disarmament, and the establishment of a system for general security
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sinking or damaging numerous American ships and killing over 2,400 people
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II,
  • United Nation

    United Nation

    representatives of axis powers in Washington to sign the declaration of the United Nations
  • battle of coral sea

    battle of coral sea

    the first naval battle fought entirely by aircraft carriers,
  • battle of Midway

    battle of Midway

    a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II from June 4–7, 1942, where the U.S. Navy defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy near Midway Atoll.
  • War Refugee Board

    War Refugee Board

    a U.S. government agency created in January 1944 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to aid and rescue victims of Nazi persecution, primarily Jews, during World War II
  • operation overlord

    operation overlord

    the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, which began on June 6, 1944, with the largest amphibious assault in history.
  • Battle of okinawa

    Battle of okinawa

    a 82-day battle from April to June 1945, which resulted in an Allied victory and was the last major battle of World War II.
  • holocaust

    holocaust

    Nazi regime killing 6 million Jews because of and their collaborators in WW2
  • liberation of Buchenwald

    liberation of Buchenwald

    American forces arrived to find that an underground prisoner resistance organization had already taken control of the camp
  • battle of the alantic

    battle of the alantic

    was a naval campaign fought from September 1939 to May 1945 between German U-boats and Allied naval and air forces.
  • Hiroshima little boy

    Hiroshima little boy

    bomb dropped on Japan n Hiroshima during the world war in August
  • Fat man

    Fat man

    USA dropped the second bomb called fat man on the city Nagasaki.
  • V J Day

    V J Day

    victory of Japan day the official day that the war was ended and troops made it home
  • Nuremberg Trail

    Nuremberg Trail

    a series of military tribunals held between 1945 and 1949 to prosecute prominent leaders of Nazi Germany for war crimes committed during World War II.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    U.S. foreign policy established in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. The doctrine pledged American military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism, primarily focusing on Greece and Turkey in its initial implementation.
  • Truman doctrine

    Truman doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy established in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman that committed the United States to support "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures".
  • Universal declaration of human rights

    Universal declaration of human rights

    a landmark international document that outlines the fundamental rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.
  • Nato

    Nato

    Its primary goals were to provide collective defense against the Soviet Union, prevent the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe, and encourage European political integration.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    post-WWII U.S. initiative that provided over $13 billion in economic aid to 16 European nations to help them rebuild their economies