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