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Japans invasion of China
Chinese began resisting Japanese influence. Japanese occupied lots of eastern China -
Germany invades Poland
Started WWII. -
Battle of Britain
Between Britain and Germany. Germany air bombed london. -
Tripartite Pact
Established Axis powers of WWII. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germany air attcked the Soviet Union. They efficiently combined air and ground attack. -
Germany takes Leningrad
Lasts 872 days. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed US. Brought US into the war. -
Wannsee Conference
Planning of the final solution which was the killing of lots of jews. -
Battle of Midway
America beat Japan in a naval battle. Six months after pearl harbor. -
Lend-Lease act
US helped its allies by providing war materials and food. -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy. -
Yalta Conference
Between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss how to deal with defeated and liberated European countries. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Big battles. American invasion. Needed a base near japan -
Hitler's suicide
Killed himself so he couldn’t be taken prisoner by the soviets. -
Formation of UN
Allied powers to discuss social and economic issues. -
VE Day
Formal end to Hitler's war. -
Postdam Conference
Churchill, Truman, Stalin. Discussed peace settlements in Europe. -
Atomic bombing in Hiroshiman and Nagasaki
US bombed Japan. Ended the war in the Pacific. -
VJ Day
Japan surrendered unconditionally to the allies. Ended WWII. -
Truman Doctrine
Declared economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey who were both threatened by communists. -
Marshall Plan
Designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 European countries to create stable conditions for democracy. -
NATO
US and 11 other Western nations. Prospect of communist expansion. (north atlantic treaty organization.) -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Named himself head of state. Created communist china. -
Korean War
North Korea invaded south Korea. US went to help. -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Stalin died in 1953. Krushchev took over in 1958 after pushing Malenkov out of the way. -
Vietnam War
US wanted to stop Vietnam from becoming communist. -
Warsaw Pact
Made by soviet union and other communist nations as a rival alliance to NATO. -
Sputnik
First satellite launched by man. Launched by soviet union. -
Bay of Pigs
Invasion of Cuba by exiled Cubans. Funded by US. -
Berlin Wall
separated communist and democratic capital berlin into two cities. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
US embargo with Cuba gave Soviet union the chance to make an “alliance” with Cuba which eventually ended with Soviet union putting missiles in Cuba. Almost started nuclear war because US obviously wasn’t too happy. -
Gorbachev
Last general secretary of soviet union.Brought end to soviet union and cold war. President of soviet -
Soviet Union falls
Gorbachev made reforms to make soviet union democratic and became president. A day after he resigned it collapsed.
