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Japan invades China
After the Marco Polo bridge incident, Japan invades China. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades polan using blitzkrieg or "lightening war" -
Battle of Britain
Germany starts Air raids on Britain and looses far more aircraft and men than Britain in the end. -
Tripartite pact
Axis powers sign a pact on this day -
Lend-Lease act
Plan for United states to aid allies in World War II without actually entering the war. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
After Germany used Blitzkrieg warfare successfully on Poland, Denmark and othe nations, when Germany invaded the USSR, they sufered many casualties from the cold, -
Germany takes Leningrad
germany Bombards, and staves Leningrad, but tepeople stay strong. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The empire of Japan bombs American naval base "Pearl Harbor" causing America to enter the war -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations is formed with over 50 countries -
Wannsee Conference
Plan for the termination of the Jewish race throughout Europe by Nazi high-ups. -
Battle of Midway
Aerial American-Japanese war over the pacific -
D-Day
Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy France during World War II -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Two crucial Islands within striking range of Japan -
Yalta Conference
Allied leaders meet in Crimea to discuss the furture of World War II, and post war. -
Hitler’s suicide
Seeing Nazi defeat, Hitler commites suicide in an underground bunker. -
Potsdam conference
Allied leaders meet in Germany to discuss what will happen to Germany. -
Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima
In order to prevent the loss of Allied troops lives, the United States drops the first of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima. -
Atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki
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Truman Doctrine
The United states would aid Democratic Nations under threat from authoritarian forces. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Mao Zedong rises as communist leader of China after civil war. -
Korean War
North Korea invades South Korea starting the Korean War, which technically has never ended. -
Death of Stalin
Stalin Died from cerebral hemorrhage -
Khrushchev rise to power
Krushchev begins his rise to power after the death of Stalin -
Warsaw Pact
Agreement by Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations to form a single military, and come to the defence of anyother nation i the pact. -
Sputnik Launched
The first man made satellite put into Earth's atmosphere is launched by the USSR -
Vietnam War
War between North and South Vietnam, United States interviened, but withdrew with unpopularity at home. -
Bay of Pigs
CIA attempt to overthrow Fidel castro's communist Government in Cuba -
Berlin wall
Communist East Germany build a wall through Berlin after WWII -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Soviet Nuclear warheads in Cuba, closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. -
Gorbachev
First Presedent of Soviet Union -
Soviet Union falls
All Soviet Republics besides Georgia agree to dissolve into individual countries, and collapse Soviet Union.