Hist: T1-C3

start of concentration camps

1933

japan capitulation

2 sept 1945

Operation Barbarossa

June 22 1941

hitler-ussr pact

1939

Leningrad besieged by Germany

sept 1941

babi yar massacre

sept 1941

stalingrad

November 1942-February 1943

Battle at Kursk

july 1943

Operation Torch

1941- 1942

German invasion of Poland

September 1st 1939

Germany invasion of large part of Europe with Blitzkrieg (Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France)

April - May 1940

Munich Agreement allowing annexation of the Sudetenland

September 1938

start of french campaign

May 10 1940

creation of Ghettos

1939

Nazis occupied Paris

June 14, 1940

French signed armistice with Germans

June 22, 1940

Pétain obtained full powers

July 19, 1940

Law on the status of Jews in France

October 1940

“rafle du Vél d’Hiv”

July 16-17, 1942

Compulsory Labor Service

1943

De Gaulle called for resistance against Nazis

June 18 1940

CNR de Jean Moulin that brings together FFI

1943

African colonies rallied to the Free France

August 1940

 Attack on Pearl Harbor

December 7, 1941

US declares war on Japan

December 8, 1941

Germany and Italy declare war on US

December 9, 1941

Wannsee conference

January 1942

Executive Order 9066

February 1942

Fred Korematsu vs the United States

1944

 D-Day

June 6, 1944

Paris liberated

26 August, 1944

Hiroshima

August 6, 1945

Nagasaki

August 9, 1945

Who directed the creation of the atomic bomb?

Robert Oppenheimer

Who led the French regime under occupation and what was it called?

Marshal Philippe Pétain, the Vichy Regime

paramilitary organization which fought people resisting + helped Gestapo track Jews in France

“Milice Française“

Who led the CNR, what do these letters mean, and what were the people part of it called?

Jean Moulin, Conseil National de la Résistance, Forces Françaises Intérieures

“Intervention group” charged with assassinating Jews

Einsatsgruppen

in which conference was the “final solution” discussed?

Wannsee conference

Example of an extermination center

Auschwitz

How many Jews disappeared during WWII?

6 million

How many Americans were killed during the Pearl Harbor attack?

2,403

War Production Board

January 1942

War rationing

1942

… women in the US participated in wartime factories

+6 million

… women volunteered with the Red Cross

3 million

Example of groups for women participation in WWII

WAC, WASP, WAVES

Employment of women in US went from … to …

5 to 7.5 million

Executive Order 9066

February 1942

what was the name of the order for the internment of Japanese?

Executive Order 9066

How many Japanese were affected by Japanese Internment

112,000