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Chapter 27: America's Rise to Globalism |
1931-1932 Japan invades Manchuria: begins Asian expansion
Stimson Doctrine: policy of non-recognition
1933 Recognition of the Soviet Union: Roosevelt 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: introduces cash-and-carry
1938 Munich agreement: appeasement over Czechoslovakia
1939 World War II in Europe: Hitler invades Poland
1940 German blitzkrieg: lightning attacks conquer Low Countries and France
1941 Lend-Lease Act: aid to America’s potential allies
German invasion of the Soviet Union
Atlantic Charter: FDR and Churchill agree on grand strategy
A. Philip Randolph threatens a March on Washington: forces Roosevelt to create Fair Employment Practices Commission
Pearl Harbor attacked: Hitler and Mussolini join Japan in declaring war on the United States
1942 War Production Board and War Labor Board
Midway, El Alamein, and Stalingrad: key Allied victories.
Civil Rights issues: Japanese-Americans interned
Operation Torch: Allies invade North Africa
Manhattan Project: scientists seek to harness the atom
1943 Invasion of Italy: Allied offensive forces Italian surrender
Race riots disrupt Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles
Teheran Conference: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet
1944 D-Day: invasion of France
Battle of the Bulge: Allies turn back German counterattack
Island-hopping campaign: U.S. forces reach Guam and Saipan, MacArthur returns to Philippines
Dumbarton Oaks and Bretton Woods meetings: Anglo-American plan for peace organizations
Allies invade Germany
1945 Yalta Conference
Roosevelt dies: Truman becomes president
Holocaust: Allied troops liberate extermination camps
United Nations Organization: first meeting
Potsdam Conference: Allies fail to settle differences
Atom bombs dropped on Japan
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