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Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Soviet official general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.he was the eighth but also the last leader of the Soviet Union. -
Japan's Invasion on China
The Japanese methodically moved south, seizing control of most of eastern China and all of the major ports by the time war broke out in Europe. Resistance to the Japanese fell primarily on the Kuomintang because the Communists were in the remote areas of northwestern China. The Japanese moved up rivers and railroad lines into the interior of China. The Kuomintang Army was battered, but the Japanese were unable to destroy it. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Hitler and Joseph Stalin made a pact that they will have peace between each other, but Hitler and Stalin plan to take control of Poland.So they invadeed Poland to take control of there land to seize for themselves. -
Germany Invades Poland
This invasion was one of the main causes of WW2 -
Lend Lease Act
The USA use this to help the allies with ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks, and with food and other raw materials. -
Batte of Britain
The Battle of Britain took place during the 1940's from July-Oct. Second WW air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom. -
Tripartite pact (aka Berlin Pact)
An agreement between Germany, Italy, & Japan "to assist one another with political, military, and economic means". -
Leningrad Blockade
German forces began their siege of Leningrad (major industriral center and the USSR's 2nd largest city) during WWII. A.k.a. 900-day Siege evem though it lasted for 872 days, which resulted in deaths of some one million of the city's civilians and Red Army defenders. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor was an attack by Japan on Hawaii that was designed to stop the US from joining WW2, but it had the opposite effect. -
Wannsee Conference
A meeting whose purpose was to discuss the way the Nazis would handle the Jewish population. -
Battle of Midway
This was a navel battle that was fought using almost entirely with air crafts.It was known as the turning piont of the war. -
D-Day
This was a major turning point of WWII, especially in Europe. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. more than 160,000 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
Allied leaders, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union meet to talk about the final attack on nazi Germany. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Iwo jima and Okinawa are islands in the pacific island which were taken control by the British island hoping campaign. -
Hitler's Suicide
Adolf Hitler commited suicide in his underground bunker. -
VE Day
Holiday celebrating the Allies victory over the Nazis -
Postdam Conference
This was a meeting between Harry Truman,Wintson Churchill,Clements Attlee, and Joseph Stalin. They were trying to talk about peace. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The atomic bomb was dropped by a B-29 bomber from the U.S Army Air Forces around 8:15am on Aug 6th. Many people were killed and most of the city was destroyed. -
VJ Day
Holiday celebrating Japan's surrender in WW2 -
Formation of the U.N.
It was an organization that is formed from different countries of the world. -
Truman Doctorine
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
This was an American intiative to aid Europe, in which the U.S gave $13 billion in economic supprt to help rebuild European economies aftrer the end if WW2. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization something to counter s soviet army base around the world. -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
The People’s Republic of China is what we know as present day China. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when about 75,000 soldiers from the Noth Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel. -
Stalin's Death
The death of the leader of the soviet union. He died at the age of 74. -
Vietnam War
War between North Vietnam and South Vietnam & The United States. -
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania made a treaty to help each other if they were attacked. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union lanched 10 space satellites and sputnik was one of them that remained in the orbit. -
Bay of Pigs
A young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973), the nation’s American-backed president. -
Berlin Wall
A wall that separtes west and east Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
There was almost a war because the presence of missles in Cuba that belonged to the soviet union. -
Soviet Union Falls
The soviet union callapse,it broke up into 15 different nation.
