ww2 timeline Flashcards
1922
Disarmament conference 5:5:3
shows us as economic power
japs are weaker
1923
Pan American Treaty
First meeting in Santiago Chile
Collective security
1924
Dawes Plan
Financial aid fro Germany in paying reparation of ww1.
Stabilized the economy by lowering monthly payments
1925
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
1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Signed by over 60 countries
stop war (no more evading)
Oct 1929
Stock Markt crashed
Begins in wallstreet ny
affected most countries bc US is economic power.. except russia
1930
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
1933
FDR becomes president
Presented Good Neighbor policy in inaugural address
“Gov will solve GD”
1934
Nye Committee
Senate committee led by SD Gerald Nye
- Investigate why the US entered WWI
- Big business conspiracy theory
1935-39
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”
sept 1939
Canada enters ww11
First time Canada declared a war on a country
Led into war by Andrew mcnaughton
August 1940
Trotsky killed in Mexico by a Spanish communist Mercader
Stayed Frieda Kahlo
Granted asylum in 1936
September 1940
Selective service act
First peacetime military draft
1.4 million sent to btc by July 1941
March 1941
Lend lease act
Allowed president to sell, exchange, or lease arms to countries vital to us security
Great Britain was a major beneficiary
December 1941
Pearl Harbor attack
Prompted us to enter ww2
Japs surprise attack at Oahu HI
February 1942
Order 9066
Relocated jap ams who are a threat to internment camp
112,000 ppl
Signed by fdr
June 1943
Zoom suit riots
Soot suits outlawed for public wear in LA
Sailors attacked mexam in east la
June 1944
Dday
Battle of Normandy lasted a year
Operation overlord, beginning of the end
1944
Double v campaigns
Heroes
Feb 1945
Yalta conference
Big 3
Post ww11 plans
No compromise or conflicting ideas
July 1945
Trinity bomb
Scientist didn’t want to use the bomb
British scientists were spies
