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Holocaust
Genocide of Jews. enforced by Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany wants the land back that they loss after WW1. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Wanted to construct naval base there. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitller invades the Balkans to prepare for invasion on the USSR. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Took office after Neville Chamberlain resigned as prime minister. -
Germany attacks France
Germany takes over France. Changes capital to Vichey, France. -
Battle of Britain
Germans attack the United Kingdom. First by bombing. -
Lend-Lease Act
US provide aid for foreign nations during WW2. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germans attacked the soviet union in a short amount of time with a lot of power. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese launch attack on US naval base at Pearl harbor. Caused US to enter the war. -
Japanese internment camps
All Japanese-Americans that lived in America were put in concentration camps. -
Battle of Midway
Turning point of the war for US and Japan. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Soviet defense of Stalingrad. -
Guadalcanal
Turning point for allies in the asian islands. -
Battle of El Alamein
Win for the British in North Africa. Turning point of the war. -
Tehran Conference
Meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill to decide what to do with Germany after WW2. -
D-Day
Largest allied invasion in Normandy, France. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
Island hopping. Take over smaller islands. -
Nuremburg Trials
Laws against jews. -
Yalta Conference
Called for Germanys unconditional surrender. -
F.D.R’s death
Had a massive cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. -
Mussolini’s assassination
Fascist leader was killed and hung in the streets of Italy. -
Hitler’s suicide
Shot himself and his wife took poison. Hitler instructed for there bodies were burned. -
Potsdam Conference
Meeting to clarify events at Yalta conference. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII -
Marshall Plan
An american program made to help Europe after WW2. -
Berlin Airlift
Allies supplied Berlin with food through the air. -
Berlin Wall
Wall the divided Democratic Berlin and Communist Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba threatened to bomb US with Soviet missles. -
Cold War
Standoff between the two superpowers, US and U.S.S.R.
