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Japan’s invasion of China
The Japanese marched into Manchuria and took it over -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler wanted to rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Battle Of Britian
It was an air force battle on top og the united kingdom. The Germans odds were against them because the UK had a superior air force. Britian ultimately won the battle. -
Tripartite pact
The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. -
Lend-Lease Act
An act in which the United States aided its World War II allies with war materials, such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks, and with food and other raw materials. -
Leningrad blockade
After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, a German army surrounded the city of Leningrad. It lasted 900 days and over 1 million civilians died. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, U.S. Japanese bombed the city which resulted in the United States’ entry into World War II -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
German invasion in the Soviet Union. Germany ended up losing -
Battle of Midway
An important turning point in the Pacific campaign, the victory allowed the United States and its allies to move into an offensive position. -
Wannsee Conference
Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the solution to the Jewish problem. -
D-Day
156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
Yalta Conference
Major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Fought between the Japanese army and the United States Marine Corps, the battle lasted until 26 March 1945 when the last Japanese soldiers were captured or killed. -
VE Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe. Germany surrendered. -
Potsdam Conference
Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, another bomb dropped in Nagasaki. -
VJ Day
The day that Japan surrendered in WWII -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler consumed a cyanide capsule, then shot himself with a pistol. -
Formation of the U.N.
The day the U.N. was formed -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine declared immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey because of the Soviet Union's expansion. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe. -
Sputnik
1st Earth satelite. Opening of the Russian-American space race to the Moon. -
NATO
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Mao Zedong & People’s Republic of China
Naming himself head of state, communist revolutionary Mao Zedong officially proclaims the existence of the People’s Republic of China -
Korean War
Battle between democratic south korea and communist north korea. -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
The death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953 created an oppurtunity for a new leader in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev rose to power on March 20, 1953. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict with the communist North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Bay of Pigs
CIA-financed and trained group of Cuban refugees land in Cuba and attempt to get rid of the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. -
Gorbachev
Was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and then the president from 1990-1991. -
Soviet Union falls
On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time.
