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Germany invades Poland
A joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II -
Stalin attacks Finland
The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. -
Battle of France
The Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 during the Second World War. -
Battle of Britain
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
The Balkan Campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940. In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. -
Lend-Lease Act
Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States. -
Holocaust
Was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazi's -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Attack on 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, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December . -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Guadalcanal
Originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Battle of El Alamein
A decisive battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. -
Tehran Conference
was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchil -
D-Day
The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
Yalta Conference
World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. -
F.D.R’s death
FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
Mussolini’s assassination
shot and hung upside down -
Hitler’s suicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.[a][b][c] His wife Eva Braun committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. -
Potsdam Conference
referred to as the Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the USSR, USA and UK. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II. -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. -
Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied power Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United State presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. -
Japanese internment camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
A British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, and a writer. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth. -
Cold War
A state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc the Soviet Union and its satellite states and powers in the Western Bloc the United States, its NATO allies and others. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Made by the German Democratic Republic. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
