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WW2
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Holocaust
Killing of different ethnic groups by nazis over 6mill jews killed and 11mill in totale deaths -
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union -
Germany invades Poland
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland -
Stalin attacks Finland
The war between Russia and Finland, generally referred to as the Winter War, -
Germany Invades France
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Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain -
Battle Of Britain
Germany wanted to overcome the british airforce to gain air superiority to storm the Britian Island. -
Lend Lease Act
United States aided its World War II allies with war materials -
Formation of the U.N.
representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
Japanese internment camps
Imprisonment of Japanes Americans after pearl harbor bombing -
Midway
World War II naval battle, -
Battle of Alamin
Germans chasing british into Alamin eygpt -
Battle of Stalingrad
successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad -
Guadalcanal
World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal -
Tehran Conference
Meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin -
D-Day
the Allied invasion of western Europe -
Yalta Conference
Meeting between F.D.R., Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin -
F.D.R’s death
Warm Springs, Georgia -
Hitler’s suicide
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot -
Potsdam Conference
Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
Make it into a democratic goverment -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Atomic Bombs droped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki and lead to surrender of Japanes forces -
Cold War
rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. -
Marshall Plan
European Recovery Program -
Berlin Airlift
Allied forces airlifted supplies to a blockaded germany by the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Wall
barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. -
Balkan Campaign
the Italian invasion of Greece
