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Yalta Conference
Yalta became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the cold war. -
THE HOLOCAUST
the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. -
Night of the Long Knives
Changed the world, eliminating SA head Ernst Röhm and other "enemies of the party" and consolidating Hitler's power. -
Stalin attacks Finland
On this day in 1939, the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid that steeled the Finns for resistance, not capitulation. Overwhelmed forces arrayed against Finland -
Germany invades Poland
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. -
Lend-Lease At
The act 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 ATTACKS FRANCE
British and French commanders had believed that German forces would attack through central Belgium as they had in World War I. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Led the country to victory against Germany and the Axis powers. -
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler and his German war machine moved in to put Yugoslavia and Greece in their place. Italy utilized tens of thousands of soldiers in an attempt to take Greece, a move that proved initially successful but faltered against a dedicated resistance movement coupled with air support. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union promised to provide Germany with the virtually limitless resources of that huge country, including Ukrainian wheat to provide Germany's population with plenty of food and much more -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. -
BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN
Battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. -
Japanese internment camps
Evacuation orders were posted in JAPANESE-AMERICAN communities giving instructions on how to comply with the executive order. -
Battle of Midway
A decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
GUADALCANAL
Known as the Battle of Guadalcanal ,a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Tehran Conference. -
D-DAY
the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Nuremberg Trials
Judges from the Allied powers Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
Potsdam Conference
Held near Berlin, July 17-August 2, 1945, was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II. -
MacArthur’s plan for Japan
Planned to implement direct military rule stating that the most effective method of enforcing the Potsdam protocols was to work directly “through the Japanese government instructed by the Emperor”. -
F.D.R’s death
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt died unexpectedly the White House lost no time announcing a cause of death.Roosevelt's death was shocking in part because the White House and his doctors had kept secret how sick he was. -
Mussolini’s assassination
The deposed Italian fascist dictator.in The final days of World War II in Europe, when he was summarily executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy. -
Hitler’s suicide
Telling the world that Hitler, along with his wife, had committed suicide. By that July, TIME had an account, from his one-time chauffeur, of how the bodies had been removed from the underground bunker and burned; the cause of death was a bullet to the head -
FORMATION OF THE U.N
An intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. -
Cold War
Decade-long struggle for global supremacy that pitted the capitalist United States against the communist Soviet Union. -
Marshall Plan
channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951.The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery -
BERLIN AIRLIFT
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
