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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. -
Stalin attacks Finland
the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces invaded Poland and Adolf Hitler takes over. -
Germany attacks France
German invaded France and the Low Countries during WW2 -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons. -
Battle of Britain
On July 10, 120 German bombers and fighters struck a British shipping convoy, and the Battle of Britain officially started. -
Lend-Lease Act
The principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Japanese internment camps
Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army. -
Tehran Conference
A meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference was a meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
F.D.R’s death
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after 4 terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge the U.S. still fighting WW2 -
Potsdam Conference
It was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
America dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima
