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Gorbachev
Last General Secretary of Communist Party of Soviet Union. -
Japan's invasion of China
Japan claimed that China had fired shots on them and then used that as excuse to successfully invade Manchuria. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland by land and air. -
Battle of Britain
The intesnse battle between Germany and the British, over the fight for their airspace. -
Tripartate Pact
Axis Powers formed by Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies by signing the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. -
Lend Lease act
Lend- Lease was passed on March 1941. It was the material and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. The two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
German Blitzkreig on Soviet Union
A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. -
Germany takes Leningrad
Germans swiftly fly through Leningrad's defenses and kill over a thousand Russians. Part of attack on Soviet Union. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Many American Navy vessels were destroyed along with American soldiers -
Formation of the UN
The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. -
Wannsee Confernece
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
Battle of Midway
The U.S. defeated Japan's very intelligent naval base, which allowed U.S. to move in an offensive position. -
D-day
The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II -
Postdam Conference
A conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
The Americans needed a base near the Japanese Coast and took Iwo Jima. -
Hitler's suicide
Hitler committed suicide on this day. -
VE day
Nazi German forces surrendered. -
VJ Day
Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event -
Truman Doctrine
Truman established a doctrine to ask for 400 million dollars to aid Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan was also known as the European Recovery Program and directed over 13 billion dollars to finance the economic recovery of Europe until 1951. -
NATO
Military alliance against Soviet Union. NATO was established by 12 different nations. -
Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong annouced that the new Chinese government will be under the control of the Communist Party of China. -
Korean Way
Fight between commmunist and non-communist forces in Korea. Resulted in the division of Korea. -
Stalin's Death; Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev was a Commasar in the War. He fought in several crucial battles in Russia.March 5th, 1953 Stalin died by crebral hemorrhage. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty to establish the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization the puts the Soviets in command of the armed forced of the member states. -
Sputnik
The Soviet successfully launched the world's first satellite. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States trying to prevent the spread of communism. -
Bay of Pigs
This was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group. -
Berlin Wall
Purpose was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and damage the social state. -
Cuban Miscle Crisis
U.S. and the Soviet Union get into political and military standoff for the installation of nuclear weapons on Cuba -
Soviet Union Falls
A few days before this day, many country's representatives got together and annouced they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
