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Put the following events in
chronological order
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
D-Day
Lend-Lease Act
Invasion of Poland
Battle of the Bulge
Neutrality Act (cash-and-carry provision)
The fight for Okinawa
Kristallnacht
Bataan Death March
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Kristallnacht Nov. 9, 1938
Invasion of Poland Sept. 1, 1939
Neutrality Act (cash-and-carry provision) 1939
Lend-Lease Act March 1941
Bombing of Pearl Harbor Dec. 7th 1941
Bataan Death March May 1942
D-Day June 6th 1944
Battle of the Bulge December 1944
The fight for Okinawa April 1945
Should the United States Enter
WWII?
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Isolationist
Avoid alliances
Domestic issues
Neutrality=safety
WWI was a mistake
America First Committee
held rallies and criticized
FDR’s openly pro-Brit
policies
• Charles Lindbergh
• Interventionist
• Collective security
• Axis wrong,
threatening
• Should aid Allies
• Put pressure on Axis;
prepare
• Selective Service Act
(draft reinstated 1940)
American Entrance into War
• FDR tries to stop Japanese expansion
July 1940 (embargo)
• Pearl Harbor 12/7/41
• Japanese move quickly through Pacific
• Am. Lose Philippines (Bataan Death
March)
• Doolittle Raid
• Battle of Coral Sea
“Europe First”
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Battle of the Atlantic
North Africa
Stalingrad
GERMANY NOW ON THE DEFENSIVE
Italy-September 3, 1943 Italy surrendered
to the Allies and 5 weeks later declared
war on Germany
How did the war change America at
home?
• Women
• African Americans “Double V”
• German, Italian, and Japanese
Americans/Immigrants
– Executive Order 9066
• Office of Price Administration
• Office of War Information
– Propaganda
Pacific
• Through May 1942, Japanese forces
continued to advance with unstoppable
momentum
• Battle of Midway-Turning Point-why?
• Guadalcanal
Victory
• D-Day 6/6/44
• After, Germany faced a
two-front war
• Allies liberated Paris in
August 1944
• Battle of the Bulge
• April 30, 1945 Hitler
committed suicide
• May 7th, 1945 Germany
surrendered VE
• FDR did not live to see
this day, Harry S. Truman
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Island-hopping
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
August 6th, 1945
Hiroshima
• August 9th, 1945
Nagasaki
• August 15th, 1945 VJ
• September 2nd, 1945
official
How did the Holocaust develop and
what were its results?
• 1933 Hitler Chancellor
• 1935 Nuremburg Laws
• 1938 Kristallnacht
• Concentration Camps and Ghettos
• 1941German invasion of SU/Einsatzgruppen
• 1942 Final Solution
• 6 million Jews died
• 5 million other
“undesirables” died
 Nuremburg Trials
What were the major immediate
and long-term effects of WWII?
• World
– Europe & Japan in ruins
– Creation of United Nations
– Conflict between SU and other
Allies over fate of conquered
areas
• US
– World’s strongest military
power
– 12 million men and women
returning to civilian life
– African Americans gained
momentum to pursue their civil
rights
***THE COLD WAR BEGINS***