AP-World WW2&Cold War

By slbunce
  • Japan Invades China

    Japan Invades China
    Japanese met very little resistence as they marched death through China.
  • Tripartite pact

    Tripartite pact
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    German soliders march to take poland.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    German and British airforces fight over England
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act
    The US will let the allied powers borrow weapons
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
    Germany invades Soviet Union
  • Leningrad blockade

    Leningrad blockade
    German forces cut the city off and Leningrad was without food, coal, oil, and water with winter coming
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor
    Japanese airforce bombed an amercian naval base
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.
    an intercountry organization to help watch the world
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    The final solution to the 'Jew problem'
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    US defeated Japan in an important naval battle
  • D-Day

  • Yalta Conference

  • Iwo Jima/Okinawa

  • Hitler’s suicide

  • VE Day

  • Potsdam Confrence

  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  • VJ Day

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall Plan

  • NATO

  • Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

  • Korean War

  • Stalin’s death

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Vietnam War

  • Sputnik

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gorbachev

  • Soviet Union falls