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Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. -
Japan's Invasion of China
China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States. -
Germany Invades Poland
he action by Germany that began World War II in 1939. -
Battle of Britain
Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom -
tripartite pact
The Tripartite Pact, also the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War 2 -
Lend-Lease At
the materialrvices supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War 2 -
Germany takes Leningrad
The capture of Leningrad was one of three strategic goals in the German Operation. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by japan military -
Formation of the U.N.
The Formation of the United Nations, 1945. On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
Wannsee Conference
a high-level meeting of Nazi officials that took place in Berlin -
Battle of Midway
The US defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy -
D-Day
the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Yalta Conference
A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 at Yalta, a Crimean port on the Black Sea -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Iwo Jima and Okinawa battle in World War II -
Hitler's Suicide
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. -
VE Day
the day marking the allied victory in Europe -
Potsdam Conference
a meeting of the victorious leaders of the Allies in Europe -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime. -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered -
Truman doctrine
international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59 -
Korean War
A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. -
Stalin's death; Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite -
Vietnam War
It began as a determined attempt by Communist guerrillas in the South, backed by Communist North Vietnam, to overthrow the government of South Vietnam. -
Bay of Pigs
site of attempted invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces April 1961. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961. It cut off east Berlin from west Berlin -
Cuban missile Crisis
the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the US and the Soviet Union. -
Soiet Union falls
The fall of the Soviet Union led to the end of decades-long hostility between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, which had been the defining feature of the Cold War.
