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Holocaust
human right violation -
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler's SS murderers killed over a thousand members of the Nazi Party in one night who were seen as a threat to his power -
germany invades poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Stalin attacks Finland
a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland, It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. -
Germany attack France
, German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end until 6 June 1944. Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940 and attempted an invasion of France. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
this great leader provided a beacon of courage and hope for the British people, delivering numerous speeches that rallied the British against Germany -
battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
The Italians spent much of the winter stabilizing a line which left them in control of only about two-thirds of Albania. A much anticipated Italian offensive in March 1941 had as result few territorial gains. Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, intervened in April and invaded Greece after a successful invasion of Yugoslavia. -
Lend-Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Under the code name Operation "Barbarossa," Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
japanese internment camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. -
battle of midway
this event turned the tide of the war in the Pacific against Japan and allowed the Allies to begin talking the offensive -
Guadalcanal
the battle for this airfield, on this island , was critical in controlling the Solomon islands. The Japanese abandoned it after fierce fighting . they referred to the island as "the island of Death" -
Battle of El Alamein
where the Allies finally pushed the Axis Powers out of North Africa in 1942 -
Battle of Stalingrad
the Germany were defeat in the Soviet Union , and then began to be pushed out of the territory they conquered after this battles in the city streets -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran -
D-Day
also known as "Operation Overlord" . this was the battle where the Americans , British , and Canadians invaded Nazi occupied France -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
Disbanded Japanese armed forces , left Japanese with small police force -
Yalta Conference
the 1945 conference where the leaders of the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation -
F.D.R’s death
The 63-year-old president,had died of cerebral hemorrhage. -
Hitler’s suicide
he killed himself by gunshot in berlin -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, -
atomic bombing of hiroshima & nagasaki
to bring WWII to the quickest possible end -
Mussolini’s assassination
The death of Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, occurred on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe, when he was summarily executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy. -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. -
Nuremberg Trials
Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
cold war
a state of geopolitical tension after WWII between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union took control of the Eastern half of Germany, the Western half was divided amongst the US, Great Britain, and France. Like the rest of the country, the capital city of Berlin, sitting dead in the middle of the Soviet-controlled Eastern half, was also divided into four parts, one half being Soviet controlled, and the rest divided amongst the others. -
Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin
The Berlin Wall, a symbol of the Cold War, was a wall that separated the communist Eastern side of Berlin from the democratic Western side. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Creation of a nuclear hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union
