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Japan's invasion of China
It is a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, It is also known as Second Sino-Japanese War. -
German invades Poland
Action that started the war in which Germany invaded Poland only days after signing the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the act of a series of aerial combats that took place between British and German aircrafts. -
Tripartite Pact
Pact sigined in Berlin, German which established the Axis Powers of WWll. -
Lend-Lease Act
The act in which the U.S supplied the Allies materials and services during WWII. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan fighter planes lauched a surprise attack on the american naval base Pearl Harbor. This casued the U.S to join the war. -
Wannsee Conference
A meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee in which the "final solution" was made. -
Battle of Midway
A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor. -
D-Day
The day in which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Yalta Conference
A meeting between the Allied leaders in which the leaders planned the final stages of World War II and agreed on the subsequent territorial division of Europe. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. -
Hitler's suicide
The day in which Adolf Hitler took his own life. -
VE day
The day marking the Allied victory in Europe. -
Potsdam Conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Bombing in which the U.S dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
The day in which Japan ceased to fight in WWII. -
Formation of the U.N
Formation of the United Nations, an international organization composed of most of the countries of the world to promote peace and sercurity. -
Trurman Doctrine
Policy by the president that the U.S would intervene to support any nation that was being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority. -
Marshall Plan
Plan in which the Americans would provide economic support to help rebulid the European economies after WWII. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
Mao Zedong
Mao proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. Later he launched the Great Leap Forward. -
Korean War
A war between United Nations, supported by the United States, and the People's Republic of Korea when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Stalin's death
Day in which Joseph Stalin died. -
Sputnik
First satellite ever to be placed in orbit. It was made by the Soviet Union -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO. -
Bay of Pigs
A bay in the Caribbean Sea in Cuba in which Cuban exiles tiredto invade Cuba and failed. -
Berlin Wall
A guarded concrete wall built on the border between East and West Berlin to cut them of from each other. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of missile sites in Cuba. It was almost a nuclear war. -
Gorbachev
The last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Union falls
The day in which the Sviet UNion (USSR) ceased to exist.
