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holocaust
six million jews were killed by adolf hiter nazi -
germany invades poland
Germany forces bombard Poland on land and from the air. -
stalin attacks finland
stalin plan to expand the soviet border -
winston churchill became prime minister of britain
led an extraordinsry life -
germany attack france
Germany invasion of France know as the fall of france. -
battle of britain
second world war when the royal air force defended the united kingdom again Germany air force. -
hitler takes over the balkans
the Balkan campaign of world war 2 began with the ltalian inbasion of Greece -
lend lease act
congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies. -
germany blitzkrieg on soviet union
Nazi Germany invade the soviet union -
bombing of pearl harbor
surprise military strike by the imperial Japanese navy air service against the us -
japanese internment camps
Japanese America in he United States during ww2 were forced relocation . -
battle of midway
decisive naval battle in the pacific theater of ww2 -
guadalcanal
battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed operation watchtower, take the island of tulagi by allie forces -
battle of el alamein
the second world war that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of el Alamein. -
battle of stalingrad
major battle world war 2 in witch Nazi Germany and its allies fought the soviet union -
tehran conference
strategy meeting of joseph stalin, franklin d Roosevelt, and Winston churchill -
D-day
allied invasion of Normandy during ww2 -
yalta conference
Crimea conference and code name the Argonaut conference -
FDR death
warm springs -
mussolini assassination
the death of Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator -
hilter suicide
adolf hitler killed himself by gunshot -
potsadam conference
held at cecilienhof the home of crown prince Wilhelm in Potsdam occupied Germany -
atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki
the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
macArthur plant for japan
allied occupation of japan at the end of ww2 -
formation of the U.N
the formation of the united nation -
nuremberg trials
series of military tribunals held by the allied forces after ww2 -
cold war
state of geopolitical tension after ww2 -
marshall plan
American initiative to aid western Europe -
berline airlift
us, British, and soviet military forces divided -
cuban missile crisis
13 day confrontation between the united state and the soviet union -
berlin wall
guarded concrete barrier divided berlin
