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Japan's invasion of China
Japan invaded China due to a lack of resources on the island of Japan. While in China, some cities surrendered but the Japanese continued their attacks, harming and killing many people. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland after demanding back the Dancing corridor. Hitler took over the Western area of Poland during the invasion. -
Battle of Britain
Durring the Battle of Britain, the British defended themselves agaisnt German attacks from the air. -
Tripartite pact
The Axis power of Germany, Italy, and Japan was created. -
Lend-Lease Act
Roosevelt made this act so that the U.S. could help any nation in defense if the nation was benifitial to the United States, or would be. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germany attacked the Soviet Union and easily moved 500 miles into the area until the attack failed. -
Leningrad blockade
Hitler surrounded Leningrad in hopes of starving the people inside the walls so they would surrender to him. However, after almost a million deaths, the people inside the wall of Leningrad never surrendered to the Nazis. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked the US naval base in Hawaii which lead to the US joining WWII -
Wannsee Conference
Nazi and German officials met to discuss how to "cleanse the gene pool" in Germany. -
Battle of Midway
America intercepted a Japanese code and knew their plans and were ready for the attack. The U.S. won the battle and it was a major turning point for the Allies. -
D-Day
The Allies attacked the German forces and there was a large quanity of deaths because of this attack. The beach where they attacked was used to supply and reniforce the Allies as they moved across countires. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was where the three major Allied leaders met to discuss how to take down Nazi Germany. -
Iow Jima/ Okinawa
Japan had planned to destroy America's Marines so others couldn't use them and in the end, U.S. Marines ended up taking Iwo Jima and Okinawa. -
Hitler's suicide
After accepting his defeat, he appointed Admiral Karl Donitz as head of state and Josef Gobbles as chancellor and then shot himself while his wife drank poison. With his wishes, their bodies were burned. -
VE Day
On this day, Germany officially surrendered. -
Potsdam Conference
At the conference, the Allies discussed peace setelments in Europe but did not end up writing any treaties. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
President Harry Truman warned Japan to surrender but they did not so a bomb was first dropped on Hiroshima and then three days later, on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered in September. -
VJ Day
The Japanese surrendered on the battleship Missouri. -
Formation of the U.N.
The U.N. was created to maintain peace and security within the nations included in the organization. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman declared that the US would provaid aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
The U.S. supported a plan to help the economies in Europe be able to supprot democratic institutions. -
Mao Zedong & People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong was the leader of the Peoples Republic from 1949-1959 when he died. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to act as a counterweight to the Soviet armies in Central and Easter Europe after WWII. -
Korean War
North Korea invaded the south and after many deaths and aid from China, Korea spereated into two independent states. -
Vietnam War
North Vietnam wanted to unify the entire country into a communist rule. South Vietnam wanted to remain like the Western countries but eventually, after the U.S. left, South Vietnam fell to the North during an invasion. -
Warsaw Pact
This treaty provided a unified military help for Soviet military units on the borders of other participating countries. -
Stalin's death; Khrushchev
After Stalin's death, Nikita S. Khrushchev wrote a speech denouncing Stalin. The speech was designed to destroy the image of the previous leader and return the government to the Leninist model. -
Sputnik
The launch of this satalite started the space age for the world. -
Bay of Pigs
The U.S. funded the invasion of Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall divided Germany into East and West. East Germany was a columnist rule and many Germans tried to escape into West Germany but were captured and killed in doing so. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union had nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. This almost lead to a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Gorbachev
Was named a member of the Central Committee and later became a general secretary of the Communist Party. The first attempts to democratized the Soviet political system were started with his perestroika policy. -
Soviet Union falls
When the soviet union collapsed, the cold war was officially over and the country became Russia instead.
