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D-Day
allied forces invaded france. over 150,000 troops landed on the beaches, forcing through the strong german defenced. Casulaties were high, but D-Day was a huge victory of allies. -
battle of the buldge
after d- day, hitler was not totally finished in trying to defeat the allies. He ordered one last counter-attack in belgium to throw off the allies' battle lines.By january, the allies crushed the Germans -
v-e day
Adolf''s body was found, he commitied suicide in Berlin. Then on the 7th, Germany finally surrendered and the next day was known as Victory in Europe day. -
Potsdam conference
after all the allies signed the united nations treaty, the allies began to worry that the soviet union wouldnt abid by the treaty laws and made europe into a communist goverment. -
berlin airlift
the soviets blocked off all routes into weat berlin. to prevent them from recieving vitial supplies. in hopes of forcing the west to leave. the western leaders then decided to fly in all the imported goods to berlin -
arms race begins
it was a race for who had the most equipt weaponary between the united states ane the soviet union. first, it was the U.S but then the soviet union quickly rose to shore when they too created a hydrogen bomb. -
bay of pigs invasion
in 1959 rebels under the leadership of Fidel Castro overthrew Cuba's dictator and installed a communist goverment. This worried the U.S. so they attempted to overthrow Castro by sending in 1.500 under cover cubans to take him down, but the invaders were quickly taken down. -
atomic bombs
soviet missiles in cuba nearly lead to war between the soviet union and the united staes -
early arms control
The united states and the soviet union agreed on a test ban treaty. This treaty outlawed nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater -
soviet union collapes
because the soviet union had started to be destroyed by joseph stalin, the rest of the citizens began to suffer too, due to all the funding that was spent on weapons. Mnay countries began to fight back the soviet power and gained independence from them
