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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. -
Germany invades Poland
The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. -
Stalin attacks Finland
It began with the Soviet invasion of Finland -
Germany attacks France
The German invasion of Western Europe -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons. -
Battle of Britain
That is the air battle for England. that is the first major campaign fought entirely by air forces. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
The Balkan Campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece. -
Lend-Lease Act
President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941 -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
That was the a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
Japanese internment camps
Concentration camps and other institutions of the War Relocation Authority in the western United States. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Guadalcanal
The Originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces -
Battle of El Alamein
That took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign -
Tehran Conference
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference. -
F.D.R’s death
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States -
Mussolini’s assassination
The death of Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator. -
Hitler’s suicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Resilience, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth. -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
