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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. -
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japen's invasion of china
japen and china are fighting so china joins the allies to they are able to fight japen.because the allies would help them defeat japan -
Tripartite Pact
japan ,Germany and Italy sign the Tripartite Pact is say that they will help each other at all cost.the tripactite was also known as the Berlin pact. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Hitler and Joseph Stalin made a pact that the 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 themselve. -
Lend Lease Act
Ahe USA use this to help the allies with ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks, and with food and other raw materials. -
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Battle of Britian
it was an air campaign against the German air force. -
Leningrad blockade
it was a long undertaking that was used to take over the German army. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
this was one of the cause that we got in in to the war because the Japan had launched a surprise ariel attack watch the United states of America did not see coming. -
Battle of Midway
it was a navel battle that was fought use almost entirely with air crafts.It was known as the turning piont of the war. -
D-Day
Also know also Normandy Invasion. the allies try to free France from the Nazi, -
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
Hitler kills himself instead of getting taken for by the Allies. -
VE Dsy
That is the day marking the victory in Europe. -
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mao zedong
Mao Zedong the leader of the chinese communist party. -
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Potsdam Conference
This was a meeting between Harry Truman,Wintson Churchill,Clements Attlee,and Joseph Stalin.the were tring to talk about peace. -
Hiroshima was attacked with an atomic bomb
the usa carried out the plan of dropping an atomic bomb on japan. -
Nagasaki was bombed using the atomic bomb
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VJ day
know as victory over japen day -
Formation of the U.N.
it sas an organization that is formed from different countries of the world.it was the try to keep peace between the nations. -
Truman Doctrine
truman say we have to help greece with the economic and military aid for greece.they werethreaten by communist. -
Marshall Plan
because the US goverment was scared of poverty, unemployment the goverment so that they can pervent that. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization something to counter s soviet army base around the world. -
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koran war
A war between Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.we were able to stop the communist from taking over all of korea. -
the death of Joseph Stalin
the death of the leader of the soviet union.he dead at the age of 74. -
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. -
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Vietnam War
was also know as the second Indochina War.was a fight between the democratic vs communism.the communist wonand the us got pushed out.we thought that if one country fell to communism that there will be a domino effect. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union lanched 10 space satellites and sputnik was one of them that remained in the orbit.this shown the the united stae were losing in the space race. -
Bay of Pigs
abortive invasion of Cuba.the Unitied states helped in this invasion.we helped castro to over throw the the cuban goverment but castro just took over the goverment a and than became the dictator of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
A wall that separtes west and east Berlin.one side was communist. so the many people were killed try to escape the communist side. -
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.the usa finally won so it looked like that democracy was better than communism.
