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Holocaust
The Nazis arrested some 30,000 Jewish men between the ages of 16 and 60 and sent them to concentration camps -
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Germany invades Poland
Germany and the USSR invade poland and split the land. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin ordered the Red Army to invade Finland -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Faced the house of commons saying "the Russian danger . . . is our danger" -
Battle of Britain
Successful defence of Great Britian against the German air force -
Lend-Lease Act
Lended wepons to nations whose defense was vital to the United States -
Japanese internment camps
more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were placed in camps -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and bring the United States into the war, -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Battle between Germany and the U.S.S.R. which turned the ied of the war. -
Battle of El Alamein
Was the battle of the Western Desert Campaign -
Battle of Stalingrad
It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war. -
Guadalcanal
Allies’ first major offensive in the Pacific. -
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Tehran Conference
The U.S. , U.S.S.R. and Brittan met in Tehran to disscues opening a second front. -
D-Day
U.S., British, and Canadian forces landed on five separate beachheads in Normandy. -
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Yalta Conference
The U.S., U.S.S.R. and Great Brittan meet in Yalta to plan the defeat of Germany. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Went to Harvard, died of polio, had a mistress and was the president of the Untited States -
Mussolini’s assassination
Leader of the National Fascist Party and survived serval assassination attempts. -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler commits suicide by gunshot. -
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Potsdam Conference
Discussed the peace settlements in Europe -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Unites States dropped two atomic bombs, Each on Hiroshima & Nagasaki and Japan surrendured 4 day later. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
Hepled Japan form a democratic government and recover from the war. -
Nuremburg Trials
Military trials held against the leaders of Germany. -
Formation of the U.N.
Was made to promote world peace -
Cold War
Point in time where tension between the U.S.S.R and the U.S was highest. -
Marshall Plan
Rehabilitate the economies of 17 countries -
Berlin Airlift
U.S. dropped supplies to the Alied controlled part of Berlin. -
Berlin Wall
Wall Germany built to separate East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
When Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict