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Benito Mussolini
He founded the Fascist party.Restore effciency in order to make Italy great again. -
Joseph Stalin
He took the place of a communist leader after Lenin died. -
Nazi
45-60 million people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical Final Solution. -
Hitler reclaimed Saar
he reclaimed Saar region from the French control -
Nonaggression Pact
Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact -
WW2 Beginning
Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. -
Britain and Germany
Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany -
Soviet and Poland
Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. Under attack from both sides, Poland fell quickly -
Germany Norway, and Denmark
Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark -
Germany, France, and Netherlands
German forces swept through Belgium and the Netherlands in what became known as “blitzkrieg,” or lightning war. -
Italy, France and Britain
Benito Mussolini of Italy put his Pact of Steel with Hitler into action, and Italy declared war against France and Britain -
Axis powers and Greece
Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria had joined the Axis, and German troops overran Yugoslavia and Greece -
Hitler invades Soviet Union
Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union. Though Soviet tanks and aircraft greatly outnumbered the Germans’, their air technology was largely obsolete. -
U.S. involvment
Truman announced that the United States would aid South Korea. The Soviet Union used its veto power to block the United Nations resolution. -
Korean War Began
75000 soldiers from North Korean peoples army came from across the 38th parallel. Invasion was the first military action of the cold war. -
Chinese attacked South Korea
300,000 Chinese soldiers attacked South Korea and U.S. positions.United Nations forced back. The war would have not been won without atomic weapons. -
Outcome of Korean War
Eisenhower became president. Formal general was convinced that only strong action would break the stalemate. Joseph Stalin Died. -
End of Korean War
The end of the Korean War and McCarthy's downfall signaled a decline of the Red Scare. -
U.S. Marines attacked North Korea
U.S. marines landed at Inchon and launched an attack on the rear guard of the North Koreans. Communist forces started fleeing back to North Korea. -
Inaugural address
John F Kennedy wrote the inaugural address on January 20, 1961. Kennedy warned his country's enemies: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty"(John F. Kennedy). -
Peace Corps
To strengthen the Third World Kennedy thought combing democracy and prosperity would limit the spread of communism. Americans got sent all around the world to assist the developing countries. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
CIA- led force of Cuban exiles attacking Cuba. Bay of Pigs Invasion failed but strengthened Castro's position in Cuba. 300 of the 1400 invaders lived by the end of the invasion. -
Berlin Wall
Khrushchev ordered two build a wall to separate the two Germany's and the gulf between the communist East and the democratic West. Kennedy responded by sending 1500 U.S. troops to West Berlin. Russian and American tanks moved within sights of each other. Neither sides claimed a victory. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. intelligence discovered that soviets were building missile sites in Cuba to protect Castro from another American invasion. Major East Coast cities and the Panama Canal would be in range of the missiles. -
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita got blamed in a television address for causing a "reckless and provocative threat to world peace". Kennedy said he would remove U.S. missiles from Turkey and Italy if the Soviets removed theirs from Cuba. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
A year after the Cuban missile crisis, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty to end nuclear-weapons agreement. Thirty-six other nations soon signed the agreement. -
Ngo Dinh Diem
He was a ardent nationalist and anticommunist. In 1956 the unification elections happened, American intelligence predicted Diem would lose to Ho Chi Minh, Rather than losing he refused to participate in the elections.He was elected in 1960. By 1963 his regime was in shambles. Americans plotted with anti-Diem to overthrow his government. November 1, 1963 Diem was removed from his power and assassinated the next day. -
War Powers Act
This act restricted the president to any war making powers required him to consult with Congress within 48 hours of committing American forces to a foreign conflict. Made to stop the growth of the "Imperial Presidency". -
The My Lai Massacre
American forces searched for enemy troops in the area with Vietcong presence. Many American troops have been injured or killed by Vietcong fighters posing as civilians. They began shooting and killing unarmed civilians.
