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Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. March 2, 1931 born -
japan's invasion of china
Japan invading manchuria started WWII -
Germany invades Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Battle of Britain
Air campaign in WWII by the german air force against the united states. -
tripartite pact
ten year military and economic pact between japan, germany and italy -
Lend lease act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Germany takes Leningrad
The siege of Leningrad lasted from September 1941 to 1944. By the end of the siege, some 632,000 people are thought to have died with nearly 4,000 people from Leningrad starving to death on Christmas Day, 1941. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
bliyzkrieg means lightning war -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Caused the US to join the war -
Formation of the UN
During the Second World War, representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. -
Wannsee Conference
fifteen nazi bureaucrats gathered to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the final solution -
battle of midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. -
D-Day
The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, is also known as D-Day. It happened along the coast of Frances’s Normandy region. The allies won by freeing Western Europe from Nazi control and defeating Germany. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference took place in Russian from February 4–11, 1945, during WWII. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the progress of the war and the postwar world. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Feb 19, 1945 - Jun 21, 1945. Japanese islands that the US wanted because their capture would bring even the city of Tokyo within the range of American B-29 bombers. -
Hitler's suicide
Hitler shot himself in the head on this day. -
VE Day
VE Day officially announced the end of World War II in Europe. -
potsdam conference
A conference was held in potsdamgermany from july 17 to august 2 1945 to negotiate terms for the end of WWII -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan surrendured -
VJ Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, ending World War II. Both August 14 and August 15 are now known as “Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Marshall plan
The plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall. it was made to restore the confidence of the europeans in their economic futures. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance against the sovirt union -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Mao proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a one-party socialist state controlled by the CPC -
korean war
war between south and north korea -
stalin's death and khrushchev
stalin died of a hemorrage. Khrushchev took over -
Warsaw pact
The Soviet Union and seven other European countries signed a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, which was a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957 -
Vietnam War
1959 - April 30, 1975. War between nationalists trying to unify Vietnam through communism and the united states trying to stop communism. -
bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure and was embarassing for the US -
berlin wall
wall between west and east germany -
Cuban missile crisis
For thirteen days the world in october the world waited for a nuclear crisis and hoped for peace -
Fall of the soviet union
The Soviey Union fell, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. Gorbachev was disappointed and resigned from his job on December 25.
