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Mussolini’s assassination
On April 7, 1926, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini had just given a speech in Rome to the International Congress of Surgeons when a bullet nearly ended his life. -
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WorldWar II
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Germany invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. -
Stalin attacks Finland
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Germany attacks France
Germany attacked France on 10 May 1940. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
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Battle of Britian
The battle began in mid-July and, initially, the Luftwaffe concentrated on attacking shipping in the English Channel and attacking coastal towns and defences. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Once occupied, the land served as a buffer during Hitler's expansion into Poland and the Balkans. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 was legislation that allowed the neutral United States to provide direct military aid to the Allies. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. -
Formation of the U.N.
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Japanese internment camps
Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway in early June 1942, marked the turning point of World War II in the Pacific for the allies. -
Battle of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. -
Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal was the Allies' first major offensive action of World War II in the Pacific. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942–February 2, 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union. -
Tehran Conference
Tehran Conference, Nov. 28–Dec. 1, 1943, meeting of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin at Tehran, Iran. -
D-Day
On D-Day, June 5, 1944, the Allies invaded France on the beaches of Normandy and surprised the Germans who had expected their attack at Calais. -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held in Nuremberg -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was held February 4-11, 1945, and was the last wartime meeting between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. -
F.D.R’s death
On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
Hitler’s suicide
On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry S. Truman. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
At approximately 8.15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later the second one was dropped on Nagasaki. -
Cold War
The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers like the united states and the soviet union. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive. -
Berlin Airlift
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961 and was destroyed in the 1990's. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
