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Germany invades Poland
Hitler uses blitzcrieg tacktect to wage war and regain lost territory. -
Germany attacks France
French counter germany and prepare while germans are occupied with poland. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stallin is afraid of an invasion from the west so he takes over finland after unsucsefull negotiation attempts. -
Battle of Britain
needed to control of the English Channel so that the British Navy would not be able to attack her invasion barges which were to land on Kent and Sussex beaches. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
hitler wanted to take out the brittish. -
Lend-Lease Act
Roosevelt provided Britain with all aid for thr war. British warships were allowed to make repairs in American ports and training facilities for British servicemen were constructed in the US. -
Holocaust
The mass murder of jews, jepsies, homosexuals, and so on by the nazi force led by hitler. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
largest land invasion in history by germany. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The bombing of the U.S. base in hawaii by japan without warning, forcing the U.S. to enter WW2. -
Battle of Midway
Changing of tide in the war with a U.S. victory -
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany surrounded the city and cut off supplies -
Japanese internment camps
Camps where japanese americans were kept and believed to be spys -
Battle of El Alamein
Allies stoped the german advance in north africa -
Guadalcanal
One of the first battles the U.S. won in the paciffic -
Tehran Conference
Allies disscuss opening western front in europe -
D-Day
The storming of normandy france by U.S. troops -
Yalta Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt talked about Europe's postwar. purpose of Yalta was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. -
FDR Death
FDR dies of a stroke at warm springs -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler killed himself in a bunker. -
Mussolini’s assassination
mussolini was shot and hung -
Formation of the U.N.
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Cold war
The mass production of nuclear weapons by U.S. and Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Conference
talked about the peace settlements in Europe but did not try to write peace treaties -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
U.S. droped bombs on japan to end the war. -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials is the name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during the Holocaust of World War II. -
Marshall Plan
European nations received $13 billion, which was used in shipments of food, staples, fuel and machinery from the United States. -
Berlin airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet support. The allies sent massive air supply- flying night and day to feed the city. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
Plan to rebuild japan after the war. -
Berlin Wall
Way to stop East Berliners escaping from the Soviet-controlled East German state into the West of the city. -
Cuban missile crisis
installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores, leading to the blocking off of cuba.
