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Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Holocaust. Jews were killed and held hostage under brutal conditions.
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It became a policy that all people of Japanese descent would be put into isolation camps
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When the Japanese were seeing to take control of the Coral Sea with an invasion of Port Moresby, the U.S intercepted
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A brutal military campaign between Russian forces and NAzi Germany and the Axis powers during WW1 One of the longest, largest and bloodiest engagement in modern welfare. Nearly 2 million people were killed or injured.
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The first artificial kidney machine was made by Willem Kolff
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British invades Italian Peninsula, on the day of the landing, the Italian government secretly agreed to the Allies terms for surrender
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The largest amphibious invasion in history. Took place on the beaches of Normandy in France
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Japan surrenders. World War II officially ends.
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The Soviets successfully exploded their first atomic bomb
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After Berlin was divided into communist and capitalist zones, the entire western and eastern parts of the country split. The west was called the Federal Republic of Germany, and the east was renamed the German Democratic Republic.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
