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Japan's invasion of China
Japan was eager for the vast natural resources that were found in China. Japan saw China's weakness, and this caused Japan to invade and occupy Manchuria. It was turned into a independent state called Manchukuo, but the chinese emperor who ruled was only a puppet of the Jpanese. When china called for the league of nations to intervene; the league published a report which condemned japanese aggresion. This caused Japan to get angry and leave the League of Nations. -
German invades Poland
German forces bombarded poland on land and from the air as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territorty to ulitmatley rule poland. The poland forces fought back with 1 million men , but poland miscalculated their military planning. They were defeated by German forces beacause of the overwelming forces of Germany, -
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WW2 and Cold War
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Battle of Brtian
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the second world war air campaign by German forces against British air forces in a clash over the United Kingdom. The battle ended when Germany's luftwaffe failed to gain air superiority over the royal air forces despite months of targeting Britain's air bases. This victory saved the country from a ground invasion and occupation by German forces. -
Tripartite Pact
It is also known as the Berlin Pact. This was an agreement between Germany,Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin. This pacted provided mutal assistance should any of the the 3 countires be attacked by any nation not already involved in the war. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-lease act was the principal means for providing the U.S. military aid to foreign nations during WW2. It authorized the president to transfer weapons or any other defense to another country that the U.S. thinks is vital to the defense for the U.S. and in return the U.S. would get naval bases. -
Leningrad blockade
German forces began their seige of Leningrad which was a major industrial center and the USSR's second-largest city. The German armies were later joined by Finnish forces that advanced against Leningrad down the Karelian isthmus. The seige also konw as the 900 day seige resulted in the deaths of some one million of the cities civilians and red army defenders. In the end the Soivet Union's offensive pushed germany out to a retreat and that was the end of the seige. -
Bombing of pearl harbor
The attack of Pearl Harbor was a surprise, but Japan and the U.S. were heading toward war for a long time.The bombing of Pearl Harbor killed more than 2,000 american soldiers and another 1,000 were wounded. This attack brought the U.S. into world war II. -
wannsee conference
The conference was a conference for Nazi officals to meet and discuss how to deal with the jews and this was also known as "final soluation". -
German blitzcreig on soviet union
This is known a ligtning war. It is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and local firepower. Its benifts are it preserves human lives and limits the artillery. During the blitzcreig of Soviet Union, it was the first time that it failed. -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. defeated Japan in one of the most important naval battle of WW2. This defeat of Japan was largly due to a code breaking of Japan's transmissions. The U.S. used the code breaking to ambush the Japanese and inflicted permanent damage to the Japanese Navy. This was an important turning point in the Pacfic camapign. It allowed the U.S. to move into a offensive position. -
D-Day
D-Day was when 156,000 american,british,and canadian forces landed on five beach alone a 50 mile strech of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. The invasion was on of the largest military asssualts in history and required a lot of planning. The american's the day before decived the Germans into a different invasion. The allies suprised the Germans and defeated them. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was the second wartime meeting of Chruchhill,Stalin, and Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the Japanese army and the United States Marines. During the battle there was 23,000 japanese soldiers that defended the island, and after a month of fighting the U.S. marines whiped out the japanese forces. -
VE Day
It was a mark of the formal acceptans by the allies of WW2 of Nazi germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Hitlers Sucuide
Adolf Hitler was the leader and dictator of Germany. He was the enemy of WW2 and killed millions of jews. Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker by shooting himself with a pistol . The reason he killed himeslef was beacuse the Russians were only a day away from overtaking the bunker. Hitler didn't want to go to suffer in the hands of his enemies so he killed himself. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held near berlin and it was the final meeting of WW2. This meeting contained the 3 heads of state. This included Harry S. Truman,Winston churchill, and PJoseph Stalin. The talks during the conference consisted of establishment of the central allied in control of the council and , and the punishment for war crimes by Germany. -
Atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
On this date an american bomber dropped the worlds first atomic bomb over the japanese city of hiroshima. The explosion whiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. A second bomb dropped on Nagaski, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan's emperor Hirohito announced his country's surrender. -
VJ Day
VJ day was the final ending to WW2. Throughout the world the announcement of Japan surrendered to the allies brought joy around the world.VJ Day stands for victory of japan day, Japans formal surrender took place on September 2, 1945. -
Formation of the U.N.
In 1945 the United Nations was adopted and is now effective and ready to be enforced. The United Nation was made for better means of international conflict and negotiating peace. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman doctrine created by President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political,military,and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal forces. -
sputnik
Sputnik was the first artifical earth earth satelite. It was created by the Soviet Union and it was 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds. It was programed to transfer information from space. -
Marshall plan
The marshall plan also known as the European recovery program was an american initative to aid europe in which the U.S gave 17 billion in econmic support to help rebuild european economies after the end of WW2. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treat organsation is an intergornvmental military alliance based on the treaty. -
Mao Zedong and People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong proclaims himself head of state and states that china is a communist country. This was the turning point point between Mao's communist forces and the natinoalist chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek. -
Korean war
The korean war began when some 75,000 soldiers from north korean people's army came across the bounday between . The invasino was the first military action of the cold war. By thjuly american troops had enetered the war in behalf of south korea. The korean war came to an end with 5 million soliders and civlians loosing their lives during the war. -
Stalin death
Stalin was the leader of the Soivet Union during WW2.His death was located in Moscow ,and the cause was of a heat attack. -
Vietnam War
The war began at this time due to conflict in the region that was dated back to the 1940s. The U.S. supported south vietnam to stop the communist . During this war 3 million people(58,000 americans) were killed in Vietnam. By 1969 more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the conflict. There was a great deal of opposition for the involvment of the U.S. in the war. The opposition came mostly from the people. In 1973 president Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces. -
Warsaw Pact
Also konwn as the treaty of friendship. The warsaw pact was a collective defensive treaty among eight communist states of central and Eastern Europe during the cold war -
Bay of Pigs
A young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew Gerneral Flugencio Batista, the nation's american-back president. American's tried to push Castro from power but it didn't work. They then set to invade cuba, but were badly outnumbered by Castro's forces. -
Berlin wall
The communist goverment of the German democtraic republic began to bulid a barbed wire concrete wall between east and west berlin. The purpose of the walll was to keep fascits from entering east germany and to seperate the two states. -
cuban missle crisis
During the cuban missile crisis, leaders of the U.S and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13 day poltical and military standoff over the insallation of nuclear armed soviet missiles on cuba. It ended when the U.S. agreed with Nikita o remove the cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. not to invade Cuba. -
Gorbachev
In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the communist part of the Soviet Union; he launched his nation on a new path. His reforming of the Soviet Union included changed in economic practice,internal affairs, and internation relations. Within 5 years the program swpt communist governments throughout Europe from power and it brought end to the cold war. His actions of changes also led to the collapse of the Soviet Union which turned into 15 individual republics. -
Soviet union falls
The soivet flag flew over the kremlin in moscow for the last time. The mighty soviet unon had fallen largley due to the great number of radical reforms that Gorbachev had implented during this six years as the leader. He resigned from his job, and that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.
