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Mao Zedong heads Long March
As the Nationalists were winning the civil war they almost eliminated the Communist Party when they sent them on a long zig-zaggy march through China in which the party battled the elements and heavy losses almost wiped away Mao's party. -
Germany invades Poland; France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
As the british prime minister Neville chamberlin used the strategy of appeasment to remove any sense of guilt when the allies and axis would go to war. Hitler broke the last straw and invaded Poland by signing a non agression pact with russia. The allies responded by declaring war against Germany (US not included as allies at this point in time) -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
The japaneese saw the US islands of hawaii as a dagger pointing at Japan and as a threat. To convince them to remain neutral (Which they were not very pro allies) Emporer hirhito decided to plan a kamikaze attack on the large US navy fleet stationed at pearl harbor. Known as Operation Z to the Japaneese this move ultimatley ended to be their biggest mistake because Yamamoto who was the Japaneese admiral and studied at Harvard knew the industrial poweress which was the US. And that they had awake -
Germany surrenders
After a decisve success by the beach landing in france at normandy the allies continued to head inland towards the Nazi captial of berlin. Hitler who did not want to die would rather get captured by the US and British forces as they would try him and not kill and torture him. So he did a last ditch effort and sent a majority of his forces into the area surrounding bastogne known as the battle of the bluge the split the allies in half cutting them off from supplies, eventually the allies persiste -
Allies use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
After the theorized energy and importance of the atom, the allies wanted to thigure otu how to harness this new energy and to creat weapons from it, they started a project called the manhattan project which took place across the united states using the worlds greatest minds in science, engineering, and logistics. When the first sucessful test of "the gadget" in new mexico. The US produced two more weapons "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" to drop on Japan to end the war. -
United Nations formed
To prevent further international conflicts which result in massive losses of life the United Nations was formed which to this day handles international affairs and where countries can voice their opionion on matters on a global scale, the current UN building in in New York, USA.
