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German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Hitler attacks Soviet Union and fails. -
Germany invades Poland
France and Britain followed a foreign policy of appeasement. The objective of this policy was to maintain peace in Europe by making limited concessions to German demands. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Finland was too close to Leadingham, Stalin took over for safety and more land. -
Germany attcked France
If Britian and France came together, they would defeat Germany. To prevent that from happening, Germany attacked France. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. -
Battle of Britian
Britian and Germany went agaist each othe ran Britian won. -
Holocaust
Killing of Jews -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler wanted to take the Balkans to expand the amount of area available for his invasion of the USSR in 1941. -
Lend-Leae Act
To provide arms and supplies at no cost to cash-poor Great Britain -
Pearl Harbor attack
surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States. -
Formation of the U.N.
an international organization whose aims for promoting and facilitating cooperation, security, economic development, human rights, rights, freedom, democracy, and the world peace. -
Japanese internment camps
Camps for Japanese after Pearl Harbor -
Battle of Midway
Battle in Pacific Campaign, happen six months after Perl Harbor attack. -
The Battle of El Alamein
Battle in North Africa during WWII -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Guadalcanal
The first major offensive launched by the Allies against Japan in World War II took place on Guadalcanal -
Tehran Conference
Meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
D-Day
To throw off the German front and shorten the war. Germany was expecting an attack from the Allied side, however, they thought it was coming from the East. -
Yalta Conference
World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President F.D.R, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
F.D.R’s death
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Georgian. -
Mussolini Assassination
Winston Churchill ordered the assassination of Benito Mussolini as part of a plot to destroy potentially compromising secret letters he had sent to the Italian dictator. -
Hitler's Suicide
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot. -
Potsdam Conference
The "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin.
President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and British Prime Ministers Churchill and Atlee discussed post-war arrangements in Europe. -
MacArthur’s plan for Japan
Rebuild country and pride. MacArthur outlined his ideas for liberating the Philippines. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. -
Cold War
Two major powers—each possessing nuclear weapons and thereby threatened with mutual assured destruction. basically it was a Psychological warfare. -
Nuremberg Trials
In rhe Nuremberg trials many leading Nazis were tried for their crimes committed during World WarII. -
Marshall Plan
America plan for helping Europe to get out of devistation after WWII -
Berlin Airlift
This was the first major confrontation between the Soviets and the free world. -
Berlin Airlift
Planes were dropping supplies down at Berlin. -
Berlin Wall
Russia was communist and wanted to spread their communist ideas. People did not want communist and wanted to escape, therefore a wall was put up over night by the russians to prevent people from leaving the east side. -
Cuban missile crisis
U.S. invaded Cuba in attempt to overthrow Cuban government, Fidel Castro, the Cuban dictator. It was because of the Bay of Pigs that Cuba became suspicious of the U.S. after that.
