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Japan's Invasion of China
After blaming the Chinese for shooting them at the Marco Polo Bridge, the Japanese launched an invasion on China. The Japanese gained most of Eastern China but they surrendered in 1945 with the Western help. -
Germany Invades Poland
Invasion of Poland from air then land by Germany that starts WWII. Adolf Hitler uses the "blitzkrieg" strategy to regain territory and to rule Poland. -
Battle of Britain
The defeat of German Luftwaffe by the Britain Royal Air Force when they tried to attack and invade Southern Britain and English Channel. Serptember 15 1940 -
Tripartite pact
The pact that formed the Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan which provided mutual assistance and recognition of the 2 spheres of influence. -
Lend-Lease Act
the Act that provided U.S. Military help to foreign nations during WWII with the transfer of supplies and armies. It allowed the U.S. to participate in the war without actually being in battle. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Blitzkrieg or "lightening war" was a war tactic that was used by Nazi Germany. It was successful in the invasions of Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France but when Germany tried to take over Soviet Union in the Battle of Moscow, they failed. It became the turning point of WWII. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombing American naval base, Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii that destroyed naval vessels, battleships, 200 airplanes, and killed 2000 soldiers and sailors. This event led America into entering WWII. -
Wannsee Conference
Discussion of the implementing of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" by the Nazi Party and the German government officials. -
Battle of Midway
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Entered the war and began fighting in the Pacific against Japan. Japan was defeated by the U.S. in it's navy and was on defensive after this battle. It was the turning point for the Allies in the Pacific. -
D-Day
The day that 160,000 Allied troops fought the Nazi Germans on the beach of Normandy, France to liberate W Europe from Nazi Germany's control. Code named Operation Overload. -
Yalta Conference
2nd meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to demand Germany's surrender and begin plans for the post-war world. -
Iwo Jima & Okinawa
Iwo Jima was an island that the U.S. thought that they needed to keep their atomic bomb in so they attacked and got the island within a month with the Japanese fighting and defending it 'til the end.Okinawa, the bloodiest battle in the Pacific, was the last battle fought in the Pacific island war (April 1—June 22, 1945) for the important air invasion of Japan. -
Hitler's Suicide
Hitler committed suicide in his air-raid bunker hearing that Soviet Union troops were only a day or two away from his bunker with his wife and dog using a cyanide capsul then shooting himself in the head -
VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, celebrates the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. -
Potsdam Conference
(July 17-August 2, 1945)
The Conference of the Big Three-Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill/Clement Attlee, U.S. president Harry Truman- in Postdam, Germany about negotiating the end of WWII. Issues like how to handle Germany and revisions of the German-Soviet-Polish borders were the issues discussed. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The world's first nuclear bomb was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan by U.S. The bombs killed more than 120,000 people, wiped most of the cities, and led to Japan in surrendering and ending WWII. -
VJ Day
“Victoryover Japan Day” When Japan surrendered and ended WWII.
September 2, 1945 the formal surrender day. -
Truman Doctrine
In President Harry S. Truman's speech, he announced that the U.S. Would provide assistance to democratic nations under treat from authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
Also called the European Recovery Program, the Marshall Plan made by the U.S. helped with rebuilding of Europe with the economic aid of $17 billion dollars. -
NATO
Alliance that was made from the U.S. that included Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, and the Netherlands against Soviet aggression and to keep peace in postwar Europe. -
Stalin's death; Khrushchev
March 5, 1953-Death of Joseph Stalin
Following Stalin's death, Khrushchev and other politicians forced Malenkov, Stalin's heir, out of his position as first secretary and made the five-man Secretariat with Khrushchev as the leader. In Match, 1958, Khrushchev took office of premier, the top power, himself. -
Warsaw Pact
Pact that was made by the Soviets with 7 other communist European nations when NATO admitted West Germany. -
Sputnik
Sputnik, "satellite" in Russian, was the first satellite that was launched from Tyuratam launch base in Russia. -
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Bay of Pigs
In Cuba, Fidel Castro and his guerrilla army overthrowing General Fulgencio Batista which was the nation's American backed president. Then the CIA launched a defensive strike, an invasion of Cuba that did not go well.
