Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1929 Stock market crash signals onset of world wide economic crisis

1931-1932 Japan invades Manchuria: begins Asian expansion

Stimson Doctrine: policy of non-recognition

1933 Roosevelt Recognizes the Soviet Union: reverses policy of previous fifteen years

1935 Nye Committee hearings: encourage isolationism

First Neutrality Act: requires impartial embargo

1936 Second Neutrality Act: bans loans and credits

1937 Third Neutrality Act (cash and carry)

Roosevelt's quarantine speech: fails to end isolationism

Panay Incident: Roosevelt backs away from quarantine rhetoric and accepts Japanese apology for sinking the U.S. gunboat

1938 Munich meeting: appeasement of Hitler over Czechoslovakia

Settlement of Mexican appropriation crisis: reinforces Good Neighbor ideals

1939 Fall of Czechoslovakia: Hitler violates Munich agreement

Germany signs nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union: two nations agree to split Poland and make other territorial arrangements

World War II begins in Europe: Hitler invades Poland

1940 German launches blitzkrieg against Low Countries and France

Roosevelt supports preparedness and peacetime draft

Destroyers-for-bases deal: fifty destroyers aid England

Roosevelt wins third term

1941 Congress adopts Lend-Lease Act: aid to America's potential allies

A. Philip Randolph plans march on Washington: to end discrimination that denied blacks jobs in government and defense industries

Roosevelt creates Fair Employment Practices Commission: responds to A. Philip Randolph’s pressure

Germany invades Soviet Union: breaks Non-aggression pact

Roosevelt and Churchill sign Atlantic Charter: agree on grand strategy

Japan occupies Indochina: continues to create the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Roosevelt imposes embargo against Japan: responds to Japanese conquest of Indochina

Pearl Harbor attacked: war begins between U.S. and Japan

Hitler and Mussolini declare war on the United States

1942 Declaration of the United Nations

War Production Board and War Labor Board created: boost war production

Submarine war in the Atlantic: German submarines strike shipping off the coasts of the Americas

Internment of Japanese-Americans: civil rights issue as Roosevelt lifts restrictions on enemy aliens, but Japanese-Americans imprisoned

Bataan and Corrigedor fall: Philippines surrender:

Battles of Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, and Midway fought: key victories for Allies

American and British troops invade North Africa: Operation Torch a success

Manhattan Project begins: scientists seek to harness the atom

1943 British-American forces invade Italy: Allied offensive forces Italian surrender

Smith-Connolly Act:

Office of War Mobilization replaces WPB:

Race riot in Detroit: black migration to cities for war employment leads to racial problems

Zoot suit riots: Los Angeles rioting

Big Three meet at Teheran: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet for first time

1944 War Refugee Board created: created to aid holocaust survivors

D-Day invasion of France: Allies open second front against Germany

U.S. forces return to Philippines: MacArthur keeps pledge

Island-hopping campaign reaches Guam

Battle of the Bulge: Allies turn back German counterattack

Dumbarton Oaks and Bretton Woods meetings: Anglo-American plan for peace organizations

Smith v. Allwright: political parties cannot exclude minorities from their primaries

Roosevelt wins fourth term: defeats Thomas Dewey

Allies invade Germany

1945 Yalta Conference: Roosevelt makes controversial concessions

Roosevelt dies

Truman becomes president

Allied troops liberate extermination camps: expose the Holocaust

First United Nations Organization meeting: organization for world peace

Germany surrenders

Potsdam Conference: Allies fail to settle differences or adopt atomic policy

Atom bombs dropped on Japan

World War II ends

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