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Germany invades poland
The attack to start the war -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin is trying to take over all of the little countries around Russia to create a protective buffer zone. -
Germany attacks france
germany invades france and makes then sign a peace treaty -
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister
Fought for peace throughout Europe and was a big part of ending the war. -
Battle of Britain
Germany and Britain fought a battle in the air and britiain held off germany. -
Lend-Lease Act
Was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
To gain access to a quicker route to invade Russia. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
lighting war. Concentration of offensive weapons along a narrow front and they would drive the enemey back. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack the harbor with an surpise air attack which caused many ships and planes to be damaged and 2400 soliders dead -
Holocaust
the mass murding of jews during ww2 -
Japanese internment camps
US president put japanese in camps, to make sure there are no spies talking to Japan during the war. Life was hard in the camps, tight living quaters and nothing to do. -
Battle of El Alamein
Axis and Allied forces chased each other over the hostile terrain of the North African desert -
Battle of Midway
The other turning pointin the Pacific war. -
Guadalcanal
us takes over the guadalcanal air base in a big turning point in the war -
Tehran Conference
Allied forces meet to discuss d-day, war strategy, and defeating Japan. -
D-Day
D-day was the invasion by the US miltiary of Normandy -
Yalta Conference
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister FDR, Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. -
F.D.R’s death
he died of a brain hemorrhage. -
Mussolini's assassination
The killing to get a dictator out of office. -
Hitler's Suicide
To avoid torture, he killed himself. -
Postdam Conference
The conference that was held in Berlin suburbs. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This was the American's final hope to end the war and it worked successfully. -
MacArthur's Plan for Japan
His plan to demilitarize Japan, put war criminals on trial, establish a constitutional monarchy, kept military in Japan. -
Formation of the U.N.
it started in 1942 to sign the atlantic charter. To use all reasoures agaisnt the axis. -
Nuremburg Trials
Leading Nazis were tried for their crimes committed during World War 2 -
Marshall Plan
Channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. -
Berlin Airlift
US president sends supplies to west berlin -
Cold War
The tension and armsrace of The U.S. and the Soviet Union -
Berlin Wall
a wall seperating east and west germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet missiles on Cuba land just 90 miles from U.S. shores
