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Japan’s invasion of China
Japanese warriors -
Germany invades Poland
German troops parade through Warsaw after the invasion of Poland -
Battle of Britain
This is a picture of Heinkel He 111 bombers during the Battle of Britain -
Tripartite pact
Adolf Hitler among other world leaders -
Lend Lease Act
Statue of lend lease act -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Image of Pearl harbor -
Formation of the U.N.
leaders metting to speak -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference Building -
Battle of Midway
SBDs and Mikuma -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Aerial view of missile launch site at San Cristobal, Cuba -
D Day
Soilders unloading onto bay -
Yalta Conference
world leaders at conference -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Soilders lift up the flag -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler’s suicide -
Postdam Conference
A picture of a conference session including Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William D. Leahy, Joseph E. Davies, James F. Byrnes, and Harry S. Truman. -
VJ Day
citizens celebrating the end of the war -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman -
Marshall Plan
citizens protesting marshall plan -
Leningrad blockade
Three men burying victims of Leningrad's siege -
NATO
NATO members -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Two aerial photos of atomic bomb mushroom clouds, over two Japanese cities -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Chairman Mao Zedong proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China -
Korean War
Clockwise from top: U.S. Marines move through Chinese lines during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir; UN landing at Incheon harbor -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin -
Warsaw Pact
Logo Military unit Organization The Warsaw Pact -
Vietnam War
U.S. Marines in Operation Allen Brook -
Sputnik 1
First artificial earth satellite the Sputnik 1 -
Bay of Pigs
group of Cuban counter-revolutionaries -
Gorbachev
picture of Gorbachev -
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall -
Soviet Union falls
Boris Yeltsin makes a speech from atop a tank in front of the Russian parliament building -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
German troops parade through Warsaw after the invasion of Poland -
VE Day
Crowds gathered in celebration at Piccadilly Circus
