Timeline of Events
October 29, 1929 |
Black Tuesday; Stock market crash |
January 30, 1933 |
Hitler rises to power, Nazi Party takes control of Germany |
November 9, 1938 |
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) |
September 1, 1939 |
Germany invades Poland |
December 7, 1941 |
Bombing of Pearl Harbor |
May 7, 1945 |
Germany surrenders |
August 6- 9, 1945 |
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
August 14, 1945 |
Japan surrenders |
The Great Depression - 1929-1939
Causes |
-the Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Black Tuesday): stockholders lost billions of dollars |
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-Bank Failures: people lost their savings to uninsured bank deposits, others rushed to take out their money and banks could no longer give out loans/ stay in business |
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-Less Purchasing: people had less money, so they bought less from businesses, which led to unemployment |
Events |
-1935-1943: New Deal programs are introduced and used to employ 8.5 million people |
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-1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, so the US joins the war |
German Invasion ~ 1938-1939
Events |
-1933: Adolph Hitler becomes chancellor, rises to power |
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-1938/1939: Germany seized Austria and part of Czechoslovakia |
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-1939: Hitler and Stalin invade Poland |
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Vocab
Reparations |
compensation for war damage paid for by the defeated countries |
New Deal |
a series of programs launched by FDR to end the Great Depression in the US |
Blitzkrieg |
means "lightning war" in German; a military tactic using offensive weapons on a narrow front |
Kristallnacht |
the night in Germany when gangs attacked Jewish synagogues and thousands of Jews were arrested and placed in concentration camps |
Genocide |
the mass extermination of a group of people based on race, religion, or culture |
Holocaust |
the systemic murder of 11 million people (6 million Jews) by Nazi Germany during WW2 |
Auschwitz |
the largest of Nazi death and concentration camps in Poland |
Propaganda |
the spread of information through films, writings, images, etc. to support a cause |
Axis Powers |
alliance formed by Japan, Germany, Italy, led by Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini |
Allies |
alliance formed by US, Great Britain, Soviet Union, led by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin |
D-Day |
June 1944, Allied forces land on the beach of Normandy, France and advanced on Germany |
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