Download - APUSH WWII
WW2 - Global View 1931-1941
Split screen your mind – Domestic and Foreign
Foreign
1931 Hoover - Stimson Doctrine, but Japan invades Manchuria
1933 Hitler chancellor
1935 Hitler with universal training & Mussolini invades Ethiopia
1936 Hitler march to Rhineland
1936 Japan build battle ready fleet
1936 General Francisco Franco rebels in Spain, Germany & Italy send troops and arms
Domestic
1931 Depression in USA
1933 FDR Presidency begins, FDR policy of Good Neighbor, and Nye Committee study by Gerald Nye (R-ND)
Why USA joined WW11. USA loaned $2. USA sold weapons3. USA allow travel
1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreement
1935-6 Neutrality Act1. No selling arms/loans2. No Travel on
belligerent nations ships
1936 USA does not assist Spanish Republic.
Foreign
1937 Japan invades Nanking, China
12/1937 Panay Incident
3/1938 Hitler to unite all Germans so annexed Austria
9/1938 Munich Conference-AppeasementGermany annex Sudetenland, agree not to take over anything else to B/F
3/1939 Hitler invades & annexed Czechoslovakia
Domestic1937 Neutrality Act
1. Cash and Carry for non military goods2. Neutrality in Civil Wars (Spain)
10/1937 FDR gives Quarantine the Aggressor Speech: trying to convince Americans to move away from isolation!
12/1937 USA / FDR accept Japans apology for Panay
1938-39 USA not involved with German activity
Foreign
8/1939 Russo-German non-aggression Pact, Hitler free to enter Poland
September 1, 1939 Hitler invades Poland, start of World War 2
France and Britain declare war
1940 German Blitzkrieg destroys France, Maginot Line, Dunkirk, French surrender
1940 Japan signs assistance pact with Germany and Italy
1940 Churchill new Britain prime minister, Neville Chamberlain out
6/1940 Battle of Britain begins
Domestic
1939 Neutrality Act1. Cash and Carry
1940 FDR gets congress to enact 1st peaceful draft ever. 1.2 million drafted in one year
FDR wages radio war, fireside chats about aid to allies and role of Britain-”Great Arsenal of Democracy” Speech
11/1940 FDR defeats Wendell Wilkie, campaigns to support Britain so USA will not need to enter the war
Foreign
1941 Hitler attacks Soviet Union so S.U. joins Britain versus Germany & Italy
1941 Japanese looks to invade Dutch East Indies
1941 Emperor Hirohito attacks Pearl Harbor with General Tojo in charge
12/11/1941 Italy & Germany declare war on USA
Domestic
March 11, 1941 Lend Lease Act, USA economic war with Germany
(economic sanctions begin)
Aug 1941 Atlantic Charter1. Freedom of seas2. Self-Determination3. We are allies
October, 1941 USA announce trade embargo on Japan. Japan angry - General Tojo vows to attack USA in Pacific
December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attacked8 battle ships10 ships340 airplanes3500 people killed
Americans unite to declare war on Japan
Pearl Harbor
1942Dec 1941-May 1942: Japanese Blitzkrieg
Take over of PhilippinesRetreat of Gen. MacArthur
Bataan Death March
May 1942: Battle of Coral SeaAdmiral Nimitz defeats Japanese fleet- morale boost!
June 1942: Battle of Midway IslandTurning Point!
Aug 1942: Island-Hopping begins with Guadalcanal
1942: Battle of the AtlanticGerman supremacy!
1942: German advance across USSR, North Africa
Oct 1942: Battle of El-AlameinBritish stop Rommel’s offensive against the Suez Canal
Turning Point
Aug 1942: Siege of StalingradGermans stuck in city, surrounded by USSR
1943
1943: Combined offensive on Asian mainland by British, Indians, Chinese
Feb 1943: Japanese leave Guadalcanal
Shows how deadly the fight for the Pacific will be!
Jan 1943: Casablanca Conf.
Unconditional surrender
Jan 1943: Stalingrad defended, Germans pushed back!
Turning Point!
May 1943: U-Boats pulled out of North Atlantic
Due to radar, convoy system
May 1943: Germans defeated in N. Africa, Med. Sea safe for shipping
July 1943: Invasion of Italy by British/US forces
Mussolini overthrow, surrender of Italy
German entrenches in Italy!
Nov 1943: Tehran Conference
2nd front, USSR controls E. Europe as they push Germans back, USSR will enter Pacific war when Hitler defeated
1944
Continued island hoping…
Fall 1944: Battle of Leyte Gulf
Destruction of Japanese fleet
Retaking of Philippines
June 1944: Rome liberated
June 6, 1944: D-DayOpening of 2nd Front
Led by Gen. Eisenhower
Diversion, stormy weather, German focus on East, Hitler’s instance that invasion was coming at Pas de Calais
Aug 25, 1944: Liberation of Paris
Dec 1944: Battle of the BulgeLast German offensive
Slows the Allied advance on Berlin
1945April-June 1945: Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Strategic location for bombing of Japan
Use of Kamikaze pilots
July 16, 1945: Los Alamos testUltimatum issued to Japan
Aug 6, 1945: Hiroshima78,000 dead
Aug 9, 1945: Nagaski100,000 dead
Aug 14, 1945: VJ Day
Feb 1945: Yalta ConferenceSelf-determination in E. Europe, create UN, rebuilding/split of Germany
• Feb 1945: Continued Allied bombing
• April 30, 1945: Hitler commits suidice
• May 2, 1945: USSR enters Berlin
• May 7, 1945: VE Day