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WWII and Cold War

  • Japans invasion of China

    Japans invasion of China

    Japan takes control over most of east China
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    germany defeats poland only after a few weeks of invading them.
  • Land-Lease Act

    Land-Lease Act

    united states lended weapons and war materials to the allies and wanted to gain land in return
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Happened during WWII, british defence against the german air force.
  • Tripartite pact

    Tripartite pact

    pact between italy germany and japan that formed the axis powers
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    hitler decides to invade soviet union after signing a pact not to invade eachother in 1939
  • germany takes leningrad

    germany takes leningrad

    germanyblocks all things coming in or out of the cuty of leningrad for 872 days
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    japanese bomb a u.s naval base in honolulu Hawaii
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    Nzis gather and decided to abort old plan and instead roud up all jews and put them in labor gangs
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    ended any japanese threats to the pacific. fought by usa and japan mostly in aricrafts and USA completely destroyed their first line which contained its most important pilots
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    the day the usa invaded normandy france and marched to find hitler
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    26 countries came together to form an alliance
  • yalta conference

    yalta conference

    meeting between usa soviet union and great britain on the final defeat of thr nazis
  • Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    united states and japan fought over an island that they both needed for their militaries
  • Hitler's suicide

    hitler shoots himself after being told that the russians were only one day away
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    defeate on europe. when allies beat the nazi war machines
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    U.S. , Britain, and the Soviet Union discussed peace settlements in Europe.
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    USA used massive atomic bombs on japan
  • VJ Dday

    VJ Dday

    the day that japan surrenders to the allies
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    truman decides to help turkey and greece because britain couldnt anymore and us didnt want them to become communist
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan

    U.S didnt want countries to get stabilized that way they wouldnt turn to communism to get out of poverty
  • NATO

    NATO

    was a military alliance
  • mao zedong and the peoples epublic of china

    mao zedong and the peoples epublic of china

    Mao Zedong calls himself leader of the peoples republic of china (communist)
  • Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    Stalin died on a heart attack in in 1953 Khrushchev came to power in 1956 after stalin. he trashed stalin and told the people all the things that stalin had done wrong
  • korean war

    korean war

    north korea tried to invade south korea to tun it into communist but south korea was acked up by the united states so it didnt work
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    vietnam wanted freedom from the french colonizers. they wanted to be communist ( that was the main conflict)
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    soviet union, albania,bulgaria, czechoslovakia,east germany , hungary, poland, and romania came together in a defence agreement to protect eachother
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    first satellite sent by humans into space by the sovietunion
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    U.S invades Cuba, Cuba wins
  • berlin wall

    berlin wall

    Berlin wall seperated germany into two different parts communism and democracy during the cold war
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    soviet union put nuclear missiles in cuba so the us was ready to cause a naval bockade then soviet unions promised to take the missil out of cuba if the usa didnt attack cuba
  • Gorbachev

    Gorbachev

    became first president of the soviet union in 1990
  • Soviet Union falls

    Soviet Union falls

    11of the soviet unions republics said that they wouldnt be part of the soviet union any longer so it all got spread apart and the soviet union fell apart