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Japan's invasion of China
Japan attacked China in an attempt to gain natural resources that were scarce in Japan. The raiding of China continued to occur even after some cities surendered. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany Justifies the invading of Poland by because they would not return the dancing corridor to Germany. Poland lost the western region to Hitler. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the successful defence against the german destructive air raids in a battle of the air. -
Tripartite pact
The Axis powers were established as Germany,Japan, and Italy. -
Lend-Lease Act
This act allowed the president to aid any country with war materials even if the country couldnt repay them with cash. Instead the countries, mainly Britain, would pay them in other ways or benefits at the presidents discression. -
Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germany pushed 500 miles into Soviet Russia, but further attacks failed. -
Leningrad Blockade
Hitler cut off St. Petersburg from the rest of the Soviet Union determined to starve the to surender. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
This was a suprise arial attack by the Japanese on USA's Naval Base in Hawaii. This pushed the united states to enter the war. -
Wannsee Conference
Nazi and other German officials devised a plan to preserve the German look, aka kill those that are not pure german or do not look german. -
Battle of Midway
The United States was prepared for the Japanese attack because they had intercepted and translated a code. This battle was a major turning point in the war for thed Ally powers. -
D-Day
Also called the Normandy Invasion, It was launched on the coast of Western Europe. It incorporated The landing of US, British, and Canadian forces on five different beaches of Normandy. -
Yalta Conference
A conference in Yalta, Crimea where allied powers communicated to plan the final defeat of Nazi Germany. The primary members of the conference were Franklin D R, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin -
Iwo Jima/ Okinawa
The Japanese aattempted to destroy Amecican Marines, but instead the Marines took Okinawa and Iwo Jima -
Hitler's Suicide
Hitler appointed government officials in preperation of defet and his suicide. He shot himself and was cremated. -
VE Day
The official surender of Germany. -
Potsdam Conference
A conference in which peach procedures were discussed by primarily Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchhill, and Joseph Stalin. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States prompted "nicely" for Japan to surrender. When they refused, the United States dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki three days later. Japan surrendered September 1945. -
VJ Day
Occured on the battleship Missouri. This was the day that the Japanese surendered. -
Formation of UN
Created in a goal to Maintain Peach, ensure security and developing friendly relations among countires. -
Truman Doctorine
This declared an action of economic and mlitary aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey due to pressures from the threat of communists insurrection and Russian expansion. -
Marshall Plan
A plan to boost the economies of 17 Western and Southern European countries to a point that they could create stable democratic governments. -
Mao Zedong & Republic of China
Mao was the Chairman of the Republic of China and was a cause of the country's resurgence. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treadty organization made to counter act the soviet armies after WW2 -
Korean War
Northern Korea attacks the south and causes the north and the south to seperate into 2 countries. -
Vietnam War
Conflict between Communist and Western way of a political system. The north prevailed and the country became communist -
Warsaw Pact
resulted in the unification of militery help for Soviet Russia and bordering countries -
Stalin's Death; Khrushchev
Nikita S. Khrushchev composed a speech to critisize Stalin. By doing this, the leninist government model returned. -
Sputnik
This was the launch of a satalite by Russia that officially started the space age. -
Bay of Pigs
The invasion of Cuba in order to overthrow fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall
The wall dividing Germany into an eastern region and a western region. The eastern region practiced communism causing many Germans to try to escape. Many of these people were captured and/or killed. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Soviet Union utilized Cuba to aim nulear missles at the United States, which brought these two countries close to a war. -
Gorbachev
He became a member of the central Committee and eventually a secretary of the Communist Party. His perestroika policy started the democratization of the Soviet political systems. -
Soviet Union Falls
This ended the Cold War and the Soviet Union became Russia.
