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Gorbachev
President of the Soviet Uniom who tried to democratize his counrty's political system and decentralize its economy which led to the downfall of the soviet Union in 1991. -
Japan’s invasion of China
An attack iniated by the Japanese against China occurred near Peiping in NorthChina. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Nonagression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union which divided eastern Europe into German ans Soviet spheres of influence. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany forces invaded Poland on land and from air. -
Lend-Lease Act
US aided its world war II allies war supplies. -
Battle of Britain
Britan's successful defense of raids by the German airforce (Luftwaffe) from July to september 1940, after the fall of France. -
Tripartite pact
The Trioartite pact included Germany, Italy, and Japan as the Axis powere -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese fighter planes attacked an American naval base called Pearl Harbor near Hawaii -
Wannsee Conference
Meeting of Nazi officials to plan the "final solution" to the "jewish question". -
Battle of Midway
The US destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
D-Day
The allied invasion of western Europe. -
Formation of the UN
26 nations from the Allied powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations, agreeing not to make a seperate peace. -
Yalta Conference
Major World War II conference, that lated from Feb. 4 to Feb. 11 1945, that included the three cheif allied leaders(Freanklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin). -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
US seizure of Iwo Jima for emergency landing strips for Us fighter planes. -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler commits sicide which caused his Reich also collasped. -
VE Day
Great Britain and US celebrate Victory in Europe Day -
Potsdam Conference
an Allied conference of World War II held in Potsdam from July 17, 1945 to August 2. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
VJ Day
Japan surrendered to the Allies which ended World War II. -
Truman Doctrine
Declared immediate economuic and militaric help to the governments of Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
(April 1948-December 1951) Program sponsored by the US and designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create a place for democratic institutions. -
NATO
organization formed in washington, DC that comprised the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany. -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Central People's Government, proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. -
Korean War
Conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea. -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Death of stalin who ruled since 1920's therefore called for the election of Nikita Khrushchev. -
Vietnam War
A conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam. -
Sputnick
Series of 10 artificial Earth Satellites which was launched by the Soviet Union and also ingugurated the space age. -
Bay of Pigs
CIA-financed and trained group of refugee lands in Cuba and attempt to topple the communiast gorernment. -
Berlin Wall
Barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to War over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missles in Cuba. -
Soviet Union Falls
The Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time before it fell. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty establishing a mutuak defense organization composed of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
