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Japan’s invasion of China
Japan's full scale invasion China (Manchuria) to gain control of Eastern Asia. -
Germany invades Poland
Started WWII, Hilter advances with air and land forces to try and take Poland. -
Battle of Britain
Was German attempt to obtain British Airways by bombing England. England sustained and it was an important turning point in WWII that did not allow Germany to invade Britain because they lost. -
Tripartite Pact
Germany, Italy, Japan became allies. -
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed the United States to send war supplies to foreign nations without getting into the war itself. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Plan to have a short war with Soviet Union “Lightning war” but failed. -
Germany takes Leningrad
Germany bombs Leningrad and starves it by blocking transportation routes into the city. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attack American naval base. United States enter WWII. -
Formation of the U.N
Forming of an international peacekeeping organization. -
Wannsee Conference
Meeting of Nazi officials to figure out what to do with the Jews. -
Battle of Midway
Japan and United States naval battle. United States won. -
D-Day
Allies liberated Western Europe from Nazi rule. -
Yalta Conference
2nd wartime meeting of the Soviet Union, Britain and United States. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Americans attack Japanese islands. -
Hitler’s suicide
He swallowed a Cyanide pill and shot himself in the head. -
VE Day
Defeat of the Nazis -
Potsdam Conference
Final WWII meeting with Soviet Union, United States, Britain to talk about the terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
First world’s atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the United States to end the war. Japan surrendered. -
VJ Day
Japan’s surrender to the Allies. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman asks for Turkey and Greece assistance to stall communist domination of two countries. Official declaration of the cold war. -
Marshall Plan
United States financing Europe’s economic recovery. -
NATO
North American Treaty Organization signed. It was a United States treaty against Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Mao Zedong & People’s Republic of China
Mao Zedong became the head of state -
Korean War
North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel to invade South Korea. -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Stalin died; Khrushchev begins to rise to power -
Vietnam War
War between communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam with the aid of the United States that got into the war in 1954. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty for mutual defense when a country of the pact becomes attacked. Soviet Union's responce to NATO. -
Sputnik
Soviet initiated Space exploration, World’s first artificial satellite. -
Bay of Pigs
Failed attack to make the communist government of Cuba to fall over. -
Berlin Wall
Wall built to separate Eastern and Western Berlin. It kept the Eastern people from crossing over to Western Berlin where there were many job opportunities. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Lasted 13 days, Cuba had Russia’s active nuclear missiles. Ended when United States promised not to invade Cuba for exchange that Russia remove their nuclear missles from Cuba. -
Gorbachev
Became the general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union. -
Soviet Union falls
Soviet Union falls because of radical reforms of the president over the span of six years in office.
