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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931,
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded
Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and
their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
9/19/31
Internment means putting a person in prison or other kind of
detention, generally in wartime. During World War II, the American
government put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, fearing
they might be loyal to Japan.
2/19/42
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was
the last major German offensive campaign of World War II. It was
launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia
in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, on the Western Front, towards
the end of World War II, in the European theatre.
12/16/44
The action by Germany that began World War II in 1939. Germany
invaded Poland only days after signing the Nazi-Soviet NonAggression Pact, under which the Soviet Union agreed not to
defend Poland from the east if Germany attacked it from the west.
9/1/39
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the BritishAmerican invasion of French North Africa during the North African
Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November
1942.
11/8/42
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United
States, representing the American women who
worked in factories and shipyards during World
War II, many of whom produced munitions and
war supplies.
5/29/43
(in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and
making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
10/26/44
The definition of a ration is a fixed amount of
something that is provided on a regular
basis, or that is the limit of how much you
are permitted to have. Food provided to
soldiers is an example of a ration.
5/4/42
A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from
American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the
Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor
6/4/42
The Yalta Conference, code named the
Argonaut Conference, held from
February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World
War II meeting of the heads of gov’t. of
the United States, the United Kingdom
and the Soviet Union
2/4/45
The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held between 1945 and
1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders,
political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had
committed during World War II.
11/21/45
The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held between 1945 and
1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders,
political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had
committed during World War II.
5/15/42
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February –
26 March 1945) was a major battle in
which the United States Marine Corps
landed on and eventually captured the
island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese
Imperial Army during World War II.
2/23/45
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively,
during the final stage of World War II.
8/6/45
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of AfricanAmerican military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World
War II. Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the
6/2/43
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names
Adolf Hitler, leader or FÜhrer of the National Socialist German
Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.
1/30/33
The day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World
War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered.
9/2/45
The day (May 8) marking the
Allied victory in Europe in 1945.
5/8/45
A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked
without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941,
with great loss of American lives and ships.
12/7/41
The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces
invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
Also known as “Operation Overlord”
6/6/44
On this day, Soviet troops
enter Auschwitz, Poland,
freeing the survivors of the
network of concentration
camps—and finally
revealing to the world the
depth of the
horrors perpetrated there.
1/26/45
Kristallnacht: Also known as The Night of the Broken Glass. On this
night, November 9, 1938, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed,
over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps.
11/9/38
The materials and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during
World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in
1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war. the two-way
transfer of ideas, styles, etc.
3/11/41
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Training and
Service Act. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also
known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, Pub.L. 76–783, 54 Stat. 885,
enacted September 16, 1940, was the first peacetime conscription
in United States history.
9/16/40