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holocaust
also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million -
Night of long knives
The Night of the Long Knives, also called Operation Hummingbird or, in Germany, the Röhm Putsch, was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany -
germany invades poland
Hitler intended to wage war -
Stalin attacks Finland
Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland, It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland -
Battle of France
also knows as fall of France, was a German invasion. -
winston churchill becomes prime minister of britain
First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter's resignation -
Battle of Britain
a military campaign of the second world war -
Hitler takes over Balkan
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. -
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 codename 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 -
Japanese internment camps
people went to these -
battle of midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
guadalcanal
Guadalcanal is one of the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. It’s known for its WWII relics -
battle of el almein
Second Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victorious, it was the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign. -
battle of stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia -
Tehran conference
strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
D Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II -
McArthurs plan for japan
The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth. -
Yalta conference
World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United -
FDR's death
died of intracerebral hemorrhage -
Mussolini 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. -
Hitlers suicide
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. -
Potsdam conference
Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany -
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
the us dropped two nuclear weapons -
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
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. -
cold war
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
marshall plan
Marshall Plan was 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 airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II -
berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
