CHAPTER 23 REVIEW
•1933 | United States extends diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union |
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany | |
•1935–1937 | Neutrality Acts |
•1939 | Germany occupies Czechoslovakia |
Germany and Soviet Union invade Poland; World War II begins | |
•1940 | Battle of Britain begins |
Tripartite Pact signed | |
•1941 | Lend-Lease Act |
Fair Employment Practice Committee created | |
Atlantic Charter signed | |
Germany invades Soviet Union | |
•December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor bombed |
•December 11, 1941 | Germany and Italy declare war on the United States |
•1942 | Congress of Racial Equality established |
Manhattan Project approved | |
Roosevelt orders internment of Japanese Americans | |
•1943 | Zoot suit riots |
•June 6, 1944 | D Day invasion begins |
•1945 | Final U.S. offensive against Japan, with victories at Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
•February 1945 | Yalta Conference |
•May 1945 | Germany surrenders |
•August 1945 | U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
•September 1945 | Japan surrenders |
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