1939. 1  August 23 - Germany and the Soviet Union sign the. 2  Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. 3  September 1 - Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
An associate degree is a type of undergraduate degree requiring a minimum of 60 semester credits/units (for our purposes the terms credits and units are used interchangeably).The traditional AA/AS Degree program consists of three parts: general education requirements, major requirements, and electives.n associate degree is a type of undergraduate degree requiring a minimum of 60 semester credits/units (for our purposes the terms credits and units are used interchangeably).
Thinkstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images. The number of semester credit hours required for an associate degree depends on the college and degree program. In general, an associate degree takes two years full time and represents half the work required for a bachelor's degree.Even though the typical bachelor's requirement is 120 credits, most two-year degrees require more than 60 credits, according to Complete College.he organization found that the most-frequent degree requirement was 60 semester credits. However, only 14.7 percent of the programs in the survey required 60 credits, and no college had a median requirement of 60 credits for all its programs.