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Outline Of Wwii

*Allies first important victory: The Battle of Coral Sea- Northwest of Australia; May 7-8, 1942.
-American forces first turned back the previously unstoppable Japanese fleet.

*Battle of Midway; Four day battle. Extremely victorious. American navy destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one; regaind control of the central Pacific.

*America took the offensive side in the Solomon Islands to the east of New Guinea.

*Guadalcanal- Battle of terrible ferocity and savagery.
-Continued for six months
-inflicting heavy loses on both sids
-In the end, the Japanese were forced to abandon the Island


1274. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Nazism
German facist dictator. Leader of the National Socialist Workers Party, or Nazis. Elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he quickly established himself as an absolute dictator.

1275. Munich Conference, appeasement, Neville Chamberlain
1938 - Hitler wanted to annex the Sudetenland, a portion of Czechoslovakia whose inhabitents were mostly German-speaking. On Sept. 29, Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain signed the Munich Pact, which gave Germany the Sudetenland. British Prime Minister Chamberlain justified the pact with the belief that appeasing Germany would prevent war.

1276. Austria annexed
March 12, 1938 - After the Austrian leader resigned under growing Nazi pressure, German troops set up a government called the Ansehluss, which was a union of Germany and Austria.

1277. Nonagression pact between Germany and U.S.S.R.
August 23, 1939 - Germany and Russia agreed not to attack each other, which allowed Hitler to open up a second front in the West without worrying about defending against Russia. Granted Western Poland ot Germany, but allowed Russia to occupy Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Eastern Poland. Hitler intended to break the pact.

1278. Invasion of Poland, Blitzkrieg
September, 1939 - Germany used series of "lightning campaigns" to conquer Poland. The...