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German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germans tried to avoid a long war and tried a lightning fast attack called a Blitzkrieg -
Japan’s Invasion of China
Fight between Japan and China, Germany funded. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. This marks the beginning of the secod world war. -
Battle of Britain
German's bombed the United Kingdom. Name coined by Churchill -
Tripartite pact
This pact established the axis powers. -
Lend-Lease Act
Roosevelt authorized the lend lease program which basically allowed British and any other contry Roosevelet deemed necessary use of our materials, ports and hangars to help the war. -
Germany takes Leningrad
The GErman's attemted to block in the city of Leningrad like they did with Stalingrad, but eventually, the soviets broke through the perimeter -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
This is a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that led the U.S. to enter WWII -
Formation of the U.N.
26 nations pledged to continue fighting the Axis Powers together. -
Wannsee Conference
This is the conference the Nazi leaders decided to exterminate the Jews -
Battle of Midway
The U.S. defeated an attack by the Japanese navy in the Pacific theater -
Cuban Missile Crisis
THe soviet's and Cuba attempted to build Nuclear missiles in Cuba in an attemt to deter the US from attacking anymore -
D-Day
The World War II invasion of Normandy, France -
Yalta Conference
Meeting to discuss final defeat and occupation of NAzi Germany -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
American's reclaimed land from Japanese, very bloody and tough battle -
Potsdam Conference
The Allied Powers gathered to decide how to punish Germany -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler committed suicide to avoid death -
VE Day
The European Axis powers surrendered. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the second world war. -
VJ Day
The day Japan surrendered and agreed to the Postdam Declaration -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman declared that it was the United States responsibility to help any country threatened by communism -
Marshall Plan
U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall proposed that European nations should create a plan for their reconstruction and that the United States would help -
NATO
The countries that signed agreed to defend eachother -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Mao Zedong declared himself head of the PRC on Oct. 1, 1949 -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Stalin's death opened the pathway for Khrushchev to come in and take over. -
Warsaw Pact
Treat signed by Axis powers agreeing to cooperate and help eachother. -
Vietnam War
This war was the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies -
Sputnik
Soviet Union launched satellite, first ever satellite. -
Korean War
The war was between North Korea (communist) and South Korea who was supported by the United Nations -
Bay of Pigs
Failed invastion of Cuba by Brigade 2506, who the CIA supported -
Berlin Wall
Wall built by the German Democratic Republic to divide East and West Berlin -
Gorbachev
Gorbachev was the final leader of the Soviet Union -
Soviet Union falls
The Soviet Union broke apart into fifteen differnet countries
