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Triple Alliance + Triple Entente
Europe's main powers were rivals for land and trade and suspicious of each other, because of that they created alliances to defened themselves against attack.
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed the Triple alliance. And Britain, France and Russia formed the Triple Entente -
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World War I
°Alliances °Christmas Truce °USA entered the war °Neutrality °Treaty of Versailles °Great Depression °League of Nations °Weimar Constitution -
Chistmas Truce
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Germans sent the Zimmerman telegram to Mexico
The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. ... The telegram was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence. -
USA entered the WW1
The United States joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. Under the command of Major General John J. Pershing, more than 2 million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields -
League of Nations
https://youtu.be/F5mkjDawFBI
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
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The Great Depression (United States) 1929-1939
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a period in history at the time of World War Two (1939-1945), when millions of Jews were murdered because of who they were.
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World War II
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The creation of "The Pact of Steel"
Pact of Steel, Alliance between Germany and Italy. Signed by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on May 22, 1939, it formalized the 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis agreement, linking the two countries politically and militarily. -
Germany invaded Poland
German troops invaded Poland on, triggering World War II. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. -
Germany invading England
300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. This bombing “blitzkrieg” (lightning war) would continue until May 1941. After the successful occupation of France, it was only a matter of time before the Germans turned their sights across the Channel to England. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. -
Japan bombed US naval base "Pearl Harbor"
https://youtu.be/6lIm06JOBtw
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States.The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day -
"D Day"
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
"Manhattan Project"
https://youtu.be/cyvwlK8ZT_g
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II. The controversial creation and eventual use of the atomic bomb engaged some of the world’s leading scientific minds, as well as the U.S. military -
Truman the New President
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, Missouri, U.S. Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president. -
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The Cold War
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one.
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Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. Alarmed by the new U.S. policy of giving economic aid to Germany and other struggling European nations, The Soviets blocked all rail, road and canal access to the western zones of Berlin. 2.5 million civilians had no access to food, medicine, fuel, electricity and other basic goods. -
The Soviet Union created the atomic bomb
the Soviet Union secretly conducted its first successful weapon test (First Lightning, based on the American "Fat Man" design) at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. -
Korean War
The Korean War (1950-1953) began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. ... This Chinese army attacked the US/UN/ROK forces. -
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North Vietnam Attacked The Gulf Tonkin
U.S. Congress after an alleged attack on two U.S. naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched America's full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Warsaw Pact
During the Cold War most of western Europe was aligned with the United States through membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), while the Soviet Union maintained garrisons in its satellites under the terms of the Warsaw Pact.
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Vietnam War
https://youtu.be/exVKd-x5QVc
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
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