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Japan's invasion of China
1931, Japan invades Chine or Manchuria. it turns into an indepent state called Manchuko. Chinese suffered continual territorial enroachment from the Japanese. Chinese peasants were brutally suppressed. 1937- japanese and chinese tropps on the frontier known as Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Sparked the second Sino- Japanese War. Japanese slaughtered 300, 000 civilians and raped 80, 000 women. thousand of Chinese were killed in bombings of citie by Japanese air force. 10 to 20 million Chinese dead -
Germany invades Poland
1, 300 German aircrafts invaded Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany because Poland requested military assitance from there. German army groups invaded Poland from Slovakia in the south and Prussia in the north. German air force had advanced aircrafts than the Poles so they established an air supremacy by attacking/destroying the Polish Air Force. This gave way for the Germans to attack road and rail junctions and concentrations of Polish troops. Towns and villages were bombed. -
Battle of Britain
air forces of both countries clashed over the United Kingdom. The french quit WWII leaving Britain alone. Britain had the great side due to an effective air defense system, first-rate pilots, and military leader Air Marshal Hugh Dowding. The Germans were infortunate because they ahd no navy left after the conquest of Norway, and their army was unprepared, and Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses. Also the German had poor intelligience and no idea of British vulnerabilites. -
Tripartite Pact
The axis powers are made when Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies wiht the signing of this pact in Berlin. -
Lend- Lease Act
Provided the U.S. military aid to foreign nations during WWII. The act enables British to keep fighting unitl events led American into conflict. They were close to war. -
German takes Leningrad
Hitler wanted to decimate the city and give it over to Finland. More than 1,000 Russians were killed. The Luftwaffe continued to raid the city. An estimation of 650, 000 Jeningrad citizens died. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. They destroyed 20 American naval vessels and 200 airplanes. 2,00 soldiers died and sailors dies as well as 1,000 wounded. After 3 days, the Japanes allies Germany and italy decalred war on the United States. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet union
Also known as the lightning war. This gained weapons like tanks, planes,and artillery. The Germans used the Blitzberg against Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslovia, and greece, They did not defeat Great Britain. -
Battle of Midway
The Americans destroyed Japan's four aircraft carriers. This was one of the most decisive battles of WWII -
D-Day
More than 9,000 soldiers killed and more than 100, 000 soldiers began a march across Europe to defeat Hitler. This day was the day of Normandy landings -
Wannsee Conference
conference in which top 15 Nazi bureaucrats met to coordinate the final solution in which they could exterminate the entire Jewish Population of Europe -
Yalta Conference
Taken place in Crimea, three allied leaders, roosevelt, churchill, and stalin met to plan the defeat of the Nazi Germany. -
IWO Jima/Okinawa
This is when the Uinted States fought for an captured these islands -
Hitler's suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by consuming a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Also Eva, his wife, commits suicide as well. -
VE Day
Great Britain and theUnited States celebrated victory in Europe marked in the end of WWII in Europe -
Potsdam Conference
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of WWII. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's 1st deployed atomic bomb over the Japnases city of Hiroshima. 80, 000 thousand people and 90% of the people dispersed. -
VJ day
Japan surrenders unconditionally to the allies. -
Formation of the U.N.
50 nations met in San Francisco to complete the charter of the United Nations. -
Truman Doctrine
the U.S supports Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid -
Marshall Plan
this channeled over 13$ bilion to fiannce the economic recovery of Europe between 1948- 1951 -
Sputnik
it was the first artificial Earth satlellite. the Soviet Union launced it. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty organization. it was based upon the intergovernmental military alliance. -
Mao Zedong& Peoples Republic of China
Mao Zedong a communist revolutionary leader proclaims People's Republic of China. -
Korean War
a war between the republic of Korea supported by the United Nations and the Democratic Republic of China -
Stalin's death Khrushchev
he ruled since 1920's. afterwards the heir was Malenkov -
Vietnam War
north Vietnam and southern allies against south vietnam -
Warsaw Pact
a mutual defense organization that puts the soviets in command of the armed forces -
Bay of Pigs
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA paramilitary group -
Berlin Wall
it was constructed by the German democratic republic. it cut off west berlin from east berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
30 day confrontation between soviet union/cuba and the U.S. -
Gorbachev
7th and last undisputed leader of the Soviet union served int he communist party -
Soviet Union falls
it collasped into 15 seperate states
