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Holocaust
The Nazi's and their leader Adolf Hitler killed about 6 million Jews -
Night of the Long Knives
Series of political executions so the Adolf Hitler could have absolute power in Germany -
Germany invades Poland
Adolf Hitler wanted to regain lost territories in Poland and to rule Poland. -
Stalin attacks Finland
The Soviet soldiers wore summer uniforms, while it was winter. Mothers were holding dead babies. -
Germany attacks France
Germans defeated Allied forces, they conquered France,Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlands -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Churchill told his people that they would never surrender and they never did. -
Battle of Britain
Royal air force defended the United Kingdom from the Nazi's. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Balkans became the center of conflicts for Germany, Italy, Russia, and Great Britain. -
Lend Lease Act
The Lend Lease Act provided the U.S military aid during the WWII. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Germany invaded the Soviet Union, was the largest German military. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the united states naval, killed about 2,300 Americans, -
Battle of Stalingrad
Germany fought the Soviet Union so that they could take over the city of Stalingrad. -
Japanese internment camps
camps carried between 110,00 and 120,000 people from Japanese ancestry -
Battle of Midway
The Midway battle was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater, happened after the attack on Pearl Harbor -
Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal was the first offensive by Allied forces against Japan's empire. -
Battle of El Alamein
It was fought between two commanders of WWII, Montgomery was the one to win -
Tehran Conference
It was a strategy meaning held in the Soviet Union embassy. -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France. -
Yalta conference
Was the meeting of the heads of government of the united states. -
F.D.R's death
F.D.R was being painted when he all of a sudden had bad head pain and later fainted -
Mussolini's assassination
He was executed by Italian partisans on Giulino di Mezzegra. -
Hitler's suicide
Hitler swallowed a cyanide pill and shot himself in the head. Germany then had to surrender to the Allied forces. -
Potsdam Conference
The Soviet Union, Britain, and the US negotiated the ending of WWII. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The US dropped two bombs on Japan towards the end of WWII, the bomb killed 129,000 people. -
McArthur's plan for Japan
McArthur had support from the British Commonwealth. He was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers. -
Formation of the U.N
The U.N maintained the international peace and security. -
Nuremburg Trials
Judges from each Allied power had a listening to the Nazi's criminals -
Cold War
Tensions between the Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc. -
Marshall Plan
The US gave about 13 million to help rebuild western European economies. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the people. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was built so that refugees wouldn't try to leave East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States and the Soviet Union discussed the ballistic missile for 13 days.
