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Holocaust
Hitler kills millions of Jews -
Germany Invades Poland
The Polish army made several severe strategic miscalculations early on. Although 1 million strong, the Polish forces were severely under-equipped and attempted to take the Germans head-on with horsed cavaliers in a forward concentration, rather than falling back to more natural defensive positions. -
Stalin attacks Finland
On this day in 1939, the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid. -
Winston Churchill became new British prime minister
he was voted into office. -
Invasion of France by Germany
Germany invaded france and took over. -
Lend-Lease Act
The US was selling weapons to the allies -
Hitler takes over the Balkans.
The British and Italians were setting up defenses in the Balkans and that caused Hitler to invade. -
Battle of Britain
German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Also known as Operation Barbarossa the first operational order for the invasion on the soviet union -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed the US -- Pearl Harbor not even an hour after the US were discussing the options of peace with Japan. -
MacArthur's plan for Japan
oversaw the successful allied occupation of postwar Japan and led united nations forces in the Korean war -
Battle of Midway
the us countered japans plans and ambushed the few remaining aircraft carriers inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese navy. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Russians last defense against Germans and they had stopped them from advancing. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. -
Battle of el alamein
it marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army. -
Tehran Conference
Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill coordinated their military strategy against the germans, and japan. -
D-Day
USA Invaded France via air and sea many causalities. -
Yalta Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for post-war. -
Cold War
US and USSR were threatening each other with atomic bombs. -
F.D.R’s death
Franklin Roosevelt had a intracerebral hemorrhage. -
Mussolini's assassination
Mussolini was shot and hanged for the public to see. -
Hitler commits suicide
The Russians were only a day or so away from overtaking his chancellery and he was urged to leave but commited suicide. -
Potsdam Conference
Various agreements on economy, punishment, land boundaries and reparations on the germans. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
it was estimated that 500 thousand men would probably die if the united nations had invaded japan, instead they chose to use a atomic bomb and the Japanese still hadn't stopped so the US dropped two bombs. -
Formation of the UN
50 countries joined together to stop further conflict like WW2 -
Japanese internment camps
During WW2 Japanese Americans were forced to relocate to incarceration camps -
Nuremberg trials
Throught 1945-1949 13 trials were carried out against Nazi Party Officials and High-ranking officers. -
Marshall Plan
also known as the European recovery program, channeled over 13$ billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. -
Berline Airlift
soviet forces blockaded rail,road, and water access to allied controlled areas of berlin. the us and united kingdom responded airlifting food and fuel to berlin from allied airbases in western germany -
Berlin Wall
German democratic republic began building a barbed wire and concrete "Antifascistischer Schutzwall" or "Antifascist bulwark" to keep fascists from entering eastern Germany. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Nuclear-armed soviet missiles were armed on cuba just 90 miles from US shores
