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Germany invades Poland
German forces attack Poland -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. -
Battle of britain
German planes attack britain. -
Germany attacks France
Germany invades France. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler invades balkans. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese panes bomb Hawaii -
Holocaust
Was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II. -
Battle of midway
battle of the pacific campaign -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city -
Guadacanal campaign
To take over land that Japan had invaded. -
Japanese internment camps
United states opens up Japanese internment camps. -
Tehran conference
was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
D-Day
Invasion of Normandy, France. -
Yalta Confernece
Was the WWII meeting of the heads of government of the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, -
F.D.R death
Franklin Roosevelt's death. -
Mussolini's Assassination
Mussolini is assassinated. -
Hitler's suicide
Hitler commited suicide -
Potsdam Conference
President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet in Potsdam. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Cold war
The Cold War was named because the two major powers having nuclear missles -
Marshall Plan
Was a program to aid Europe. -
The Berlin Airlift
On this day in 1948, U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Russia placed nuclear missles in Cuba, and brought more tention to the cold war.
