ww2 timeline

Question 1

1922

Answer 1

Disarmament conference 5:5:3
shows us as economic power
japs are weaker

Question 2

1923

Answer 2

Pan American Treaty
First meeting in Santiago Chile
Collective security

Question 3

1924

Answer 3

Dawes Plan
Financial aid fro Germany in paying reparation of ww1.
Stabilized the economy by lowering monthly payments

Question 4

1925

Answer 4

Scopes Trial

• A trial that challenged teaching evolution (or anything that went against the Bible) in Tennessee
• Judge Bryan found Scopes guilty because evolution theories would cause dangerous social movements

Question 5

1928

Answer 5

Kellogg-Briand Pact
Signed by over 60 countries
stop war (no more evading)

Question 6

Oct 1929

Answer 6

Stock Markt crashed
Begins in wallstreet ny
affected most countries bc US is economic power.. except russia

Question 7

1930

Answer 7

Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Highest Tariff act in 100 years
contributed to tension of canada
Reasoning was to protect the domestic agriculture industry from foreign Ag. imports

Question 8

1933

Answer 8

FDR becomes president
Presented Good Neighbor policy in inaugural address
“Gov will solve GD”

Question 9

1934

Answer 9

Nye Committee
Senate committee led by SD Gerald Nye
- Investigate why the US entered WWI
- Big business conspiracy theory

Question 10

1935-39

Answer 10

Neutrality Acts
1935-prohibited export if implements of war
1937-cash and carry
1939- Lifted arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under “cash and carry”

Question 11

sept 1939

Answer 11

Canada enters ww11
First time Canada declared a war on a country
Led into war by Andrew mcnaughton

Question 12

August 1940

Answer 12

Trotsky killed in Mexico by a Spanish communist Mercader
Stayed Frieda Kahlo
Granted asylum in 1936

Question 13

September 1940

Answer 13

Selective service act
First peacetime military draft
1.4 million sent to btc by July 1941

Question 14

March 1941

Answer 14

Lend lease act
Allowed president to sell, exchange, or lease arms to countries vital to us security
Great Britain was a major beneficiary

Question 15

December 1941

Answer 15

Pearl Harbor attack
Prompted us to enter ww2
Japs surprise attack at Oahu HI

Question 16

February 1942

Answer 16

Order 9066
Relocated jap ams who are a threat to internment camp
112,000 ppl
Signed by fdr

Question 17

June 1943

Answer 17

Zoom suit riots
Soot suits outlawed for public wear in LA
Sailors attacked mexam in east la

Question 18

June 1944

Answer 18

Dday
Battle of Normandy lasted a year
Operation overlord, beginning of the end

Question 19

1944

Answer 19

Double v campaigns

Heroes

Question 20

Feb 1945

Answer 20

Yalta conference
Big 3
Post ww11 plans
No compromise or conflicting ideas

Question 21

July 1945

Answer 21

Trinity bomb
Scientist didn’t want to use the bomb
British scientists were spies