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Holocaust
Persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland -
Stalin attacks Finland
the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft; Helsinki was bombed. -
Germany attacks France
German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill, replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister -
Battle of Britain
Luftwaffle (German air force) began bombing Britain (1940) -
Lend-Lease Act
the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Adolf Hitler gave the order for German forces, backed by Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian Axis allies - to invade Yugoslavia and Greece -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Making sure that the German attack would catch the Soviets by surprise on
a tactical, operational and even strategic level was one of the most import-
ant components of planning the blitzkrieg -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
U.S cuts off oil of Japan, Japan launch a surprised attack on us naval base (Pearl Harbor) -
Japanese internment camps
Military areas for people that are a potential threat -
Battle of Midway
United States navy, defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy -
Guadalcanal
operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Battle of El Alamein
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel returned to battle from illness and tried to halt the tide, but the British advantage in personnel and artillery proved too overwhelming. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran. -
D-Day
Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control -
Yalta Conference
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 dies -
Mussolini's assassination
After a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress, Benito Mussolini was executed -
Hitler’s suicide
consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol -
Potsdam Conference
was the last of the World War II meetings, American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
United States led the Allies in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state -
Cold War
rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Formation of the U.N
international peacekeeping organization and a forum for resolving conflicts between nations -
Nuremburg trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice -
Marshall Plan
channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe -
Berlin Airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city -
Berlin Wall
the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic, began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict
