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Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Chinese soldier, marxist leader, and stastesman who led the Chinese' communist revoultion -
Gorbachev
He was the secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union -
Japan’s invasion of China
Japan's full throttle attack on China from Mancuria the war was short since China had little resistance. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bomb Poland on land and from the air. Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and overall rule Poland this marks the beginning og WWII -
Lend-Lease Act
system by which the USA would aid it allies in WWII -
Battle of Britain
After the fall of France, Britain was defending themselves from Germany in a series of air raids -
Tripartite pact
a pledge in which Germany, Italy, and Japan would assist one another politcially, economically, and through the miltiary. -
Leningrad blockade
One of the longest and most destructive blockades in history and overall the most costly in terms of deaths. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed a U.S. pacific fleet and it killed over 2,500 military personnel and civlians and destroyed hundreds of airplanes. -
Wannsee Conference
meeting with nazi officials in the Berlin suburb Wannsee -
Battle of Midway
Fought almost entirely with aircraft the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength -
D-Day
Allied troops landed on beaches of Normandy won the liberation of Europe -
Yalta Conference
A major conference of the 3 major allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin which in Yalta which is in Crimea and it was a plan on how they were gonna defeat the Nazi Germany. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Fought between the Japanese army and the United States Marin Corps -
Hitler’s suicide
He was in his bunker he took a pill and then shot himself with a pistol. -
VE Day
Marks the acceptance by the Allies of Nazi Germany's to surrender its armed forces. Thus ending WWII in Europe -
Potsdam Conference
A conference in WWII held by Allies in a place called Potsdam which is a suburb of Berlin. Some major people who attended this conference were Harry Truma, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
two bombings which killed at least 129,000 people to this day still the only time nuclear bomb was used -
VJ Day
The day Japan had surrendered to the Allies, which basically ended WWII. -
Formation of the U.N.
the intergovernmental organization made by Franklin D. Roosevelt made for international co-operation -
Truman Doctrine
The announcement of Harry Truman to declare immediate military and economy aid to Greece. -
Marshall Plan
Progrrams sponsered by the US made to help the economies of 17 western and southern European countries so they couldhave stable condtions for democracy. -
NATO
Made to create a counter to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. -
Korean War
fight between North Korea and South Korea -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Stalin dies after serving Soviet Union since the 1920's. Khrushchev is named as one of the men of the communist party of the soviet union. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty between Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. -
Vietnam War
fight between North Vietnam and South Vietnam with allies USA -
Sputnik
A group of artificial satellites launched by the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs
Abortive invasion of Cuba at Bahia de Cochinos, or Playa Giron to Cubans, 1,500 cubans exiled opposed to Fidel Castro -
Berlin Wall
The prevention of west Berlin from going to east Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
An incident that lead United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. -
Soviet Union falls
Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
