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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