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Germany Invades Poland
It was a suprise attack, German tanks and troop trucks invaded the Polish border, and German aircrafts attacked Poland's capital -
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WW2
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Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin sent nearly one million troops into Finland -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
The criticism of Chamberlain, made it clear to the people that Churchill should be appointed -
Germany Attacks France
Germany invades France and takes Paris -
Battle of Britain
Germany began to focuse on the cities, espically London, to break British Morale -
Lend-Lease Act
This Act meant providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Yugoslavia and Greece resisted joining Hitler, so Germany invaded them. Setting up to invade Russia -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
The Soviest were not ready for this attack -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Day that lives in Infamy, Japan suprise attack on the U.S -
Formation of the U.N.
Representives of 26 nations met and formed the U.N -
Holocaust
The Killing of million of Jews, by the germans -
Internment camps
The U.S put all their Japanese citizens into camps, while they were at war with Japan -
Battle of Midway
American forces were hidden, they allowed the Japanese to assualt the island, then the American planes swooped in to attack the fleet -
Battle of El Alamein
Fought on the Western Desert in Egypt -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
McArthur came up with the plan Island-hopping. -
Guadalcanal
The U.S with Australian support started fighting aganist the Japenese -
Battle of Stalingrad
Luftwaffe went on a nightly bombing, blazing up the city. Stalin told his soldiers to defend the city until death -
Tehran Conference
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to dicuss miltary strategies aganist Germany and Japan -
D-Day
Suprise attack by the allies on the beaches of Normday France -
Yalta Conference
President Roosevelt,Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. -
F.D.R’s death
Leaving Harry S. Truman in charge, while the U.S were still fighting in WW2 -
Mussolini’s assassination
Italian Partisans assassinated Mussolini -
Hitler’s suicide
Both Hitler and his wife,commited sucide in his bunker -
Potsdam Conference
The three leaders, Truman, Stalin and Churchill met to negoiate the ending of the war -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The U.S bombed Japan Citices -
Nuremburg Trials
Nazi War crimnals were put on trial -
Marshall Plan
The Untied Sates help Europe rebuild after WW2 -
Berlin Airlift
Allied planes sent food and gifts to Western Berliners -
Berlin Wall
East Germany put up the wall to keep it's citizens from going west -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The world waited on nuclear warfare between the Soviets and the U.S