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Japanese invades China
In attempts to invade China, Japan faked and accident to start a war with China but didnt happen till later in 1937. -
Germany invades Poland
The start of World War 2 when Hitler decided to invade Poland with an army of 1.5million troops. Gernany used a strategy in war called "Blitzkrieg" where the Germans would rush Poland with fast and deadly attacks. -
Lend lease act
An act that supplied tha allies with supplies that would help with the war. Also would lend and provide military power. -
Battle of Bitain
An air battle that took place in Britain that was a huge bombing in the United Kindoms. Germany ended up losing because of theyre intellegence of the air force of the Britains and there vulnerbilities. -
Tripartite Act
Marked the day that the Axis powers were created between Germany, Italy, and Japan. The alliance was to have a new order in Europe and a Greater East Asia. -
Leningrad Blockade
The longest siege to be recorded in which the Germans surrounded Leningrad and they had to evacuate the citizens, but the results were bad as 1 million civilions died. -
German Blitzkreig on the Soviet Union.
A battle in which the red army went on the offensive where Hilter knows that he will soon lose the war but still attacked the Soviet Union anyways. He attacked during the winter and lost. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Before the crack of 8 am Japanese planes bombed and American naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to last 2hour and was devestating as they destroyed 20 American vassels and killed 2,000 American sailers and soldiers. -
Wannsee Conference
Was the plotting of a physical detruction of jews know as the "final Solution" which was disccussed but at the time most of the poeple were their already knew it was in effect, -
Battle of Midway
6 months after the pearl harbor attack the US defeated Japan in the most decisive naval battle in the war, Inflicting irriparable damage to the Japanese navy. -
D-day
The day where war ended for the western heimerphere of the wrold. The allied forced would invade the coast of Normandy to defeat the Nazis. -
Hitler's suicide
Hitler runs to his bunker on January 16 they warned him that the allied were closeing into his location. He was told to run but instead killed himself with a pistol. -
Yalta Conference
Heads of goverment in the US, UK, and Soviet Union discussing end ware reoganization of war torn countries. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
Americans plan of capturing the islands with Japanese airfields. American suffutred heavy loses but still won in the bloodiest battle but victory was assured as American troops overwelmed the Japanese. -
Potsdam conference.
One of the last war conference or meetings held by the president Harty S. Truman, Winston Churchhill where they disccussed the punishments of the side that lost the war and the war criminals. What they disccussed were about Germany's econmy and the unconditional surrender of Japan while maintaining its emporer. -
Atominc bombing of Hiroshima and Nagisaki
On August 6, 1945 the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and the president negotiated a surrender treaty with Japan. Japan refused and the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagisaki. -
V-E day
Marked Europian victory over the axis powers in the western side of the world. -
VJ day
The day where the public would be annouced of th end of world war II. A cermoney was held on USS Missouri ship in which the Japanese surredered. -
Formation of the UN
A pledge to continue to fight againist the axis powers. A replacement for the league of nations that formed after the war to prevent another world war from happening. -
Truman Dontrine
A plan to stop communism to spread to Greece and Turkey. It was also the start of the cold war. -
Marshall Plan
Plan that allowed for an economical recovery for Europe. t brought investment and industrilization to Europe. It also boosted the US market because it established American goods. -
NATO
A pact that states if one country that was attack and was in NATO it means that if you attack that one country you attack all of us. Most of the US and Europian countries are in NATO. -
Mao Zedong People’s Republic of China
Mao won the battle with chang Kai-shek who was supported by the US, were China became communist. -
Korean War
The war began with the North Koreans with 75,000 troops crossed the 38th parallel a line that separates North Korea from South Korea. As the fighting went on not much results were showing as nothing much happened. As American tries to make armistice between the countries -
Stalins death Krushchev
Apon Stalins death brought a new ruler named Krushchev who was actually not elected right away but did have many roles in the goverment before Stalins death but was over looked and instead Malenkov was elected, Krushchev took advantage of his mediocracy and made Malenkov give up his position to Krushchev. -
Vietnam War
The rise in power of Ho chi minh sparked the war in vietnam againist south Vietnam. The US got involved but later on pulled out due to riots. -
Sputnik 1
Was the first man made satellite to go to space. Made by the U.S.S.R it was in a low elliptical orbit until it ran out of fuel. -
Bay of Pigs
A plan to overthrow the Cuban leader Fidel Castro with exiles from Cuba trained by the CIA -
Berlin Wall
A "wall" that separated one part of Germany from the other but fell in 1990. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
A feared day were the US was in panic about another war about to start when Cuban had missle that were to lauch in the US, but in the end it never happened. -
Gorbachev
Was the eigth and last leader for the soviet union during the cold war. -
Soviet Union falls
The last leader of the Soviet union Gorbachev resigned and handed over his powers to president Boris Yeltsin.
