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Japan Invades China
Japan invades Manchuria because they considered the Chinese revolution a threat to the econmic assets they had there -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940. -
Tripartite Pact
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the tirpartite pact to form the axis powers -
Lend-Lease Act
The U.S. Government signs this act making it legal to send supplies to the Allies while keeping the U.S. out of the war -
Siege of Leningrad
German forces begin their siege of Leningrad, a major industrial center and the USSR's second-largest city. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked the American Naval base at Oahu by surprise -
Wannsee Conference
The meeting of Nazi leaders to discuss the "final solution" -
Battle of Midway
The U.S. navy attacks the Japanese Fleet at the island of midway -
Battle of Stalingrad
The sucessful Soviet defense of the CIty of Stalingrad -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Failed attempts to bomb The Soviets -
D-Day
Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Yalta Conference
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. -
Iwo Jima
Marines invade the Japanese controlled island of Iwo Jima -
Hitler's Suicide
HItler takes a cyanide pill and shoots himself -
VE Day
Germany and Italy Surrender to the Allies -
Potsdam Conference
Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin,British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An atomic bomb is dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan -
VJ Day
Japan suurenders unconditionally to the Allies -
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
Secretary of State George C. Marshall issued a call for a comprehensive program to rebuild Europe. -
NATO
United States and 11 other Western nations form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Korean War
75,000 soldiers from the People's Army of North Korea attempted to invade South Korea -
Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev begins to rise to power in the Soviet Union after Stalin dies -
Stalin’s death
Joseph Stalin dies -
Vietnam War
The vietnam war begins -
Sputnik
The first artifical earth satilite Launched by the Soviet Union -
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 -
Berlin War
East Germany begins construction of the Berlin Wall -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Union sends nuclear missiles to Cuba. Thirteen Days later, Khrushchev offered to remove them if the U.S. agreed not to invade Cuba -
Soviet Union Falls
Gorbachev resigns after 11 of the Soviet republics announced that they would no longer be a part of the Soviet Union
