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Japan Invades China
Japanese met very little resistence as they marched death through China. -
Tripartite pact
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Germany invades Poland
German soliders march to take poland. -
Battle of Britain
German and British airforces fight over England -
Lend-Lease Act
The US will let the allied powers borrow weapons -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germany invades Soviet Union -
Leningrad blockade
German forces cut the city off and Leningrad was without food, coal, oil, and water with winter coming -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese airforce bombed an amercian naval base -
Formation of the U.N.
an intercountry organization to help watch the world -
Wannsee Conference
The final solution to the 'Jew problem' -
Battle of Midway
US defeated Japan in an important naval battle -
D-Day
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Yalta Conference
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Iwo Jima/Okinawa
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Hitler’s suicide
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VE Day
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Potsdam Confrence
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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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VJ Day
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Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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NATO
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Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
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Korean War
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Stalin’s death
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Warsaw Pact
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Vietnam War
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Sputnik
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Bay of Pigs
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Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gorbachev
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Soviet Union falls