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The Holocaust
6 million Jews were murdered by Nazis -
Night of Long Knives
Adolf Hitler commanded that his SS guards kill the SA leaders. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Soviet armies invade Finland -
Germany Invades Poland
Germans invaded Poland because Adolf Hitler wanted more “living space” for Germans to live. -
Germany Attacks France
Germany defeats France allied forces. -
Winston Churchill
He becomes prime minister. -
Battle of Britain
Germany’s luftwaffe failed to target Britain’s air bases. -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack United States naval base in Hawaii. -
German blitzkrieg on soviet union
Germany invaded the Soviet Union during WW2 -
Lend-Lease Act
United States would lend or lease supplies. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
His German forces invaded Yugoslavia and Greece to secure the Balkans to invade the Soviet Union. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany and their allies fight the Soviet Union -
Battle of Midway
This was a naval battle in the pacific -
Battle of El Alamein
Germans surrendered in South Africa -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Allied forces and Japan go at it -
Internment Camp
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an order for the relocation of Japanese Americans to concentration camps. -
Tehran Conference
It was to open another force against Nazi Germany -
D-day
United States and allies wanted to invade Germany by land, air and sea. -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
He died from Intracerebral hemorrhage -
Yalta Conference
It was to re-establish nations that we defeated by Germany -
Mussolini’s Assasination
He was executed in north Italy by Italian partisans -
Hitler’s Suicide
He swallowed pills and shot himself -
The formation of the United Nations
It was put together to prevent another World War -
MacAuthur’s Plan for Japan
He took over and started to rebuild Japan. -
Potsdam Conference
Big leaders dicuss ways to end World War 2 -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nuclear weapons from the United States were sent to Nagasaki and Hiroshima -
Nuremberg Trials
Accused nazi criminals were tried and half were sentenced to death. -
The Cold War
This stopped Communism from rising to power in the the West -
Marshall Plan
United States provided economic assistance to Europe -
Berlin Airlift
An airlift to bring supplies into West Berlin -
The Berlin Wall
It was built to keep people from escaping to the west. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
United States and the Soviet Union argued over whether or not to put missle bases in Cuba
