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F.D.R’s death
American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. -
Invasion of Poland
Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany -
Stalin attacks finland
The Soviet Union ostensibly sought to claim parts of Finnish territory, demanding that Finland cede substantial border territories in exchange for land elsewhere -
Winston churchill becomes prime minister of britain
As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain -
Germany attacks France
British and French commanders believed that Germany would attack through central Belgium. They attacked in the west. -
Battle of Britian
Royal Air Force defended the united kingdom from germay. It was a military campain -
Lend-Lease Act
Military aid to Britain was greatly facilitated by the Lend-Lease Act. Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought, by deploying troops to Romania -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed a harbor in Hawaii. This got the us involved in the war. -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad. -
Japanese internment camps
It was a forced relocation in camps in the western frontier. -
Battle of midway
An important naval battle of World War II, between the United States and the Empire of Japan -
Guadalcanal
An operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces. First major offensive attack. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein was a decisive battle. It marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign. -
Tehran Conference
A strategy meeting of Stalin. It happened after the Anglo-soviet unuions embassy -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
McArthur’s plan for japan
This foreign presence marked the only time in Japan's history that it had been occupied by a foreign power -
Holocaust
Six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler. Worse killing ever recorded on earth. -
Yalta Conference
Was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States. -
Mussolini’s assassination
Mussolini’s dream of re-creating the Roman Empire was stopped. Mussolini’s power base was quickly evaporating. -
Hitler’s suicide
He killed himself by gunshot -
Potsdam conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations. -
Nuremburg trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders. -
Cold war
The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the Soviet Union and the United States as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. -
Berlin Airlift
U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, berlin was located inside soviet controlled lines. -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe. The United States gave over $13 billion. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
Curtis Jackson
This timeline was made by Curtis Jackson
