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Chapter 24 and 25 timeline
War
World War II
1939 - 1945
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Germany
Hitler joins/establishes Nazi Party
1919
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Nazi's become dominant political power
1932
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Hitler becomes Chancellor
January 1933
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dismantles Democratic Weimar Republic and establishes the Third Reich
Hitler pulls Germany out of the League of Nations
1933
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Removal of Aryans from government positions
April 7, 1933
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one of the first moves in a campaign for racial purity that eventually led to the Holocaust
German military buildup
1935
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violation of the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler met secretly with top military advisors
november 5, 1937
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says germany needs the lands of its neighbors
German troops march into Austria unopposed
march 12, 1938
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Most Austrian's wanted it to happen
Munich agreement
september 30, 1938
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Turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired.
Kristallnacht
November 9, 1938 - November 10, 1938
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Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany.
"german mistreatment" in poland
1939
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Hitler says that Germans in poland were mistreated by the poles and needed his protection
quarter of a million jews remain in Germany
1939
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"Final Solution"--policy of genocide, which is the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population
German invasion of Czechoslovakia
March 15, 1939
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Non agression pact between germany and soviet union
August 23, 1939
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committed never to attack each other
Invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939
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German air force roared over Poland, raining bombs on military bases, airfield, railroads, and cities. At the same time German tanks roared across the Polish countryside spreading terror and confusion --- BLITZKRIEG
German invasion fleet
1940
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along french coast; couldn't compete with British navy so also launched air raid at the same time
Surprise attack of Denmark and Norway
April 9, 1940
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planned to build bases along the coasts to strike at Great Britain
Tripartite Pact
September 27, 1940
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign a mutual defense treaty and became known as the Axis Powers.
First concentration camp opens
1941
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Chelmno
Hitler Breaks agreement
June 1941
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Hitler invades soviet union, breaking the agreement made in 1939
Germans took offense in southern Soviet Union
1942
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Germans approach Stalingrad
August 1942
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German commander surrenders Stalingrad
January 31, 1943
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St. Lo
July 25, 1944
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General Omar Bradley unleashed massive air and land bombardment against the enemy at St. Lo, providing a gp in the German line of defense through which General George Patton and his Third Army could advance
Germans break through weak american defenses
December 16, 1944
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under coverage of dense fog
Nuremberg Trials
1945 - 1949
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Trials against Hitlers high positioned officers on crimes against humanity
Hitler kills himself
April 29, 1945 - April 30, 1945
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Blamed Jews for starting the war and his generals for losing it
Soviet Union
Stalin comes to power
January 21, 1924
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"five year plan" intro
1928
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placed economic activity under state management
Non-Agression Pact Between Germany and Soviet Union
1939
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committed never to attack each other
Soviet union moves into Finland
1939
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Totalitarian Government established by Stalin
1939
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Soviet Army stormed Berlin
April 25, 1945
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Italy
Fascist Italy
1921
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Mussolini establishes the Fascist Party
March on Rome
October 1922
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Mussolini marched on Rome with thousands of his followers - black shirts.
Italy invades Ethiopia
1935 - 1936
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Tripartite Pact
September 27, 1940
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Germany, Italy, and Japan all sign a defense treaty and become known as the Axis Powers
Mussolini replaced/arrested
July 25, 1943
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King Victor Emmanuel II
Anzio
January 1944 - may 1944
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40 miles from rome, battle between Germans and Allied forces
Japan
Manchuria
1931
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Japanese launch surprise attack and seized control of the Chinese province of Manchuria
Invasion of China
July 1937
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Hideki Tojo, chief of staff of Japan's Kwantung Army, launched the invasion into china
Japanese take Indochina
1941
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Tojo orders Japanese navy to prepare for attack on US
November 5, 1941
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
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Japanese air raid on US naval base. US lucky that some of their aircraft carriers were not docked at the time
Iwo Jima
February 19, 1945 - March 26, 1945
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Okinawa
April 1, 1945 - June 22, 1945
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Hiroshima atomic bomb
August 6, 1945
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code-name Little Boy
Nagasaki atomic bomb
August 9, 1945
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code-name Fat Man
Formal surrender cerimonies
September 2, 1945
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Take place on US battleship missouri in Tokyo Bay
United States
Reciprocal Trade Agreement act pushed through congress
1934
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series of neutrality acts passed
1935
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Neutrality act of 1939
1939
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cash-and-carry goes into effect
weekly pay rises 10%
1939 - 1945
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"Cash-and-carry"
September 1939
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FDR persuaded congress to pass provision that allowed warring nations to buy US arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their own ships.
African-American semiskilled job increase
1940 - 1944
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African Americans working in skilled or semiskilled jobs rose from 16% to 30%
Selective Training and Service Act
1940
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more than a million americans relocate to CA
1941 - 1944
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Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
1941
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brings scientists into the war effort
Congress passed lend-lease act
March 1941
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US would lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the united states"
March on washington
July 1, 1941
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A. Phillip Randolph leads march under banner, "we loyal colored americans demand the right to work and fight for our country."
Retaliation to U-Boats
September 1941
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FDR granted the navy permission to attack German U-Boats in self defense.
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Founded
1942
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Civil rights leader James Farmer
End of automobile production for private use
February 1942
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Douglas Macarthur leaves the phillipines
March 11, 1942
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Daring invasion of Tokyo and other Japanese cities
April 18, 1942
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US stops japanese drive towards Australia
May 1942
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five day battle of the coral sea
Women's Auxillary Army Corps becomes law
May 15, 1942
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ives the WAACs and official status and salary but few of benefits granted to male soldiers.
Scout planes find japanese fleet
June 3, 1942
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Americans send torpedo planes and dive bombers to attack; caught with planes on the decks of three aircraft carriers
Tidal wave of racial violence
1943
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nearly 18 million workers in labor industry
1944
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Unemployment drops to low 1.2%
1944
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As defense industries boomed
Americans captured first German town
October 1944
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Aachen
FDR dies
April 12, 1945
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stroke while posing for a picture
First atomic bomb test
July 16, 1945
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Truman orders the dropping of 2 atomic bombs
July 25, 1945
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Allied Forces
France Falls Summer 1940
1940
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Winston Churchill and FDR meet at white house
December 22, 1941
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war plans
fist allied offensive began when 19000 troops stormed Guadicanal
August 1942
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solomon islands
Allied troops landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algies
November 1942
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107,000 soldiers
Allie victories on land as well as sea
1943
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D-Day
June 6, 1944 - June 13, 1944
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3 divisions parachuted behind enemy lines while thousands upon thousands of sea-born soldiers stormed the beaches.
Patton and Third Army reach the Seine River
August 23, 1944
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Liberated France 4 days later
Allies freed France, Belgium, and Luxembourg
September 1944
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738 ships converged on Leyte Island in Phillipines
October 1944
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V-E Day
May 8, 1945
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Victory in Europe day
Spain
Rebellion against spanish Republic
1936
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group of spanish army officers led by General Francisco Franco rebel