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germany invades poland
germany goes into poland and takes over very fast -
stailin attacks finland
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invasion of france
germany invades france -
churchill becomes prime minister
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Battle of Britain
German airforce bombed britain -
lend lease act
enacted by congress to lease weapons to britain -
hiler takes over the balkans
he does this to make supplies easily transpoted over the border -
germany blitzkrieg on russia
germans air raid russia -
blizkrieg on ussr
operation barbarossa -
Pearl Harbor
japs bomb pearl harbor -
United Nations Formed
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holocaust
jews and other outsiders killed to get rid of them -
battle of midway
americans vs. japs in the pacific -
Hitlers suicide
he kills himself with his wife -
Battle of stalingrad
germans try to defeat the russians but fail -
battle of stalingrad
germans fight the russians in stalingrad -
battle of el alamein
2 battles occured here -
guadalcanal
us fight the japs in the pacific -
guadalcanal
allies battle the japs in the pacific -
japanese internment camps
the first of these camps opned -
tehran conference
decleration against axis powers goes through december -
D-Day
the invasion of normandy to help end the war -
MacArthurs plan
send troops to permanently stay near japan for saftey -
yalta conference
called for germanys surrender -
F.D.R Dies
He dies of a cerebral hemorage -
MUssolini assasinated
was arrested and captured the killed -
hitler's suicide
hitler and his wife kill themselves -
Nuremberg Trials
trials to bring the nazis to justice throogh 1948 -
potsdam conference
balance power in europe goes through august -
Atomic Bombings
bombing of hirshima and nagasaki -
Period: to
Cold war
war of silence and words and nuclear scares between the us and ussr -
marshall plan
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Berlin Airlift
us droped tons of supplies on berlin to aid -
berlin wall
construction on the wall began -
cuban missle crisis
the world waited for the russians to pass the boundry to declare nuclear war