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Berlin Wall
A guarded concrete wall including controled checkpoints. It was build by east Germany. -
Japanese Invasion of China
the Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops -
Germany invades Poland
Nazi Germany invades Germnay and wins within weeks. -
Battle of Britian
series of aerial combats that took place between British and German aircraft -
Tripartite pact
a pact signed in Berlin, Germany which established the Axis Powers of World War II -
Lend- Lease Act
the material and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under the Act of Congress, the Lend- Lease Act -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germans first "lightning war" attack on soviet Union, which seemed to work but in May 1945, the Soviet Union defeated Germany. -
Germany Takes Leningrad
Germany set up a blockade aroudn the entire city on Leningrad, and did not allow any goods to move in or out of the city. Germany was starving the people of Leningrad. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
Wannsee Conference
a meeting of the senior officals of Nazi Germany -
Battle of Midway
A naval and air battle fought in World War II in when planes from American aircraft carriers attacked the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean -
D Day
The day of World War II on which the Allied forces invaded nothern France by beach landings -
Yalta Conference
A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin to plan the final stages of World War II -
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima -
Hitler's Death
Hitler took his own life by shooting himselfing and taking cyanide -
VE Day
The day of the Allied forces victory in Europe -
Potsdam Conference
a conference Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
An American bomber dropped the first deployed Atomic bomb on Hiroshima destorying 90% of the city. Three days later an American bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
day on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II -
Formation of the U.N.
The purpose is to bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and development -
Marshall Plan
The American initiative to aid Europe in order to help rebuild the economy -
Truman Doctrine
an international relations policy, by Harry Truman, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet Union -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organizationis a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
Mao Zedong & People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong led the Long March and proclaimed the People's Republic of China -
Korean War
The war fought between the United Nations and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It began when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Stalin's Death
After Stalin's mysterious death, later discovered to be by natural causes, many people that were beneath him when he was ruling, attmepted to rise but were never successful. -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliances of communist nations in Eastern Europe -
Sputnik
each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites -
Vietnam War
a conflict between South Vietnam and North Vietnam. -
Bay of Pigs
The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closes approach to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Gorbachev
Gorbachev takes control of the Soviet Union -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The Collapse of the Soviet Union sepreated Russia into 15 seperate countries and ended the Cold War.
