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Japan’s invasion of china
The Japanese Kwantung Army turned a small incident into a full-scale war. Chinese forces were unable to effectively resist the Japanese. The Japanese military was not only better armed and organized, they were also incredibly brutal. The rape of Nanking was some of the most terrible atrocities of World War II. -
Germany invades Poland
Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939. -
Battle of Britain
T his war was between Britain and Germany.The Germans had already thought they won the war in the west but Hilter had other plans to invade Britain.This battle was the longest and largest bombing compaign. -
Tripartite pact
The Tripartite Pact, also the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Lend-Lease Act
the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
At first, the German Blitzkrieg seemed to succeed. Soviet forces were driven back more than 600 miles to the gates of Moscow, with staggering losses. -
Germany takes Leningrad
as part of their offensive campaign in the Soviet Union, German bombers blast through Leningrad's antiaircraft defenses, and kill more than 1,000 Russians -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan was the one who attack. Pearl Harbor was not a state on high alert. Commanders believd that they were not going to get attack so they were taken surprised because they did not perpare for anthing. They locked up weapons and left war planes untouched. -
Formation of the U.N.
nited States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in theDeclaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the WWII, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. -
Wannsee Conference
The "Wannsee Conference" was a high-level meeting of Nazi officials that took place in Berlin on January 20, 1942, to discuss the "Final Solution" of the Jewish Question. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive episode in the struggle for naval hegemony in the Pacific Ocean.As a result of the Battle of the Coral Sea, which had taken place a month earlier, Japanese Pacific expansion had been temporarily halted. -
D-Day
the allied invasion of Normandy. General Dwight D. Eisenhower commands the operation and plans are made to land in Normandy, west of where the German troops and artillery are built up. -
Iwo Jima
which means Sulfur Island, was strategically important as an air base for fighter escorts supporting long-range bombing missions against mainland Japan. -
Yalta Conference
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin attended this confernece. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot -
VE Day
to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Postdam conference
This event was held near Berlin and was one othe the last three big meetings during WWII. Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. the leaders issued a declaration demanding unconditional surrender from japan. -
Vj Day
Allied nations celebrate VJ Day. Japan has surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman declared it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism. His initial request was specifically for $400 million to assist both Greece and Turkey, which Congress approved. -
Marshall Plan
was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 -
Mao Zedong proclaims People's Republic of China
The loss of China, the largest nation in Asia, to communism was a severe blow to the United States, which was still reeling from the Soviet Union's detonation of a nuclear device one month earlier. -
Korean War
was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. -
Stalin’s death
Joseph Stalin had been leader of the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years. Though he is now considered responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people through famine and purges -
Vietnam War
also known as the Second Indochina War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 o the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
Sputnik
means satellite.Launched by an R7 Semiorka rocket. The rocket was launched from Tyuratam near Baikonur in Kazakstan, at that time part of the Soviet Union and now an independent country. -
Bay of Pigs
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Gorbachev
He wanted to democratize his country’s political system. And decentralized his economy led to downfall of communism -
Soviet Union falls
The increasing political unrest led the establishment of the Soviet military and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to attempt a coup d'état to oust Mikhail Gorbachev and re-establish a strong central regime
