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Germany invades Poland
This invasion was a primer on how hitler intended to wage war , with the "blitzkrieg stragedy" . German forces bombard poland on land and air . this is how WW II began. -
Stalin attacks Finland
stalin attacks finland because they wont agree to is term. Stalin wanted Finnish islands in the Gulf of Finl and he wanted to lease Hanko as a military base to establish a garrison of 5,000 men there and he demanded more Finnish land on the Russian border to be ceded to Russia. But finland wasnt habing it so war broke out. -
Germany attacks France
France had thought that Germany would attack along the German-French border just like during World War I. Thinking this, France built the Maginot Line.Instead of attacking France through the Maginot Line as the French expected, the Germans went north and entered France along its northern border.France gave in .As part of the armistice agreement France signed with Germany on June 22, Germany occupied northern France and all of France's Atlantic coastline down to the border with Spain. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
He was the most dominant figure in British politics .A role that received huge praise once the war was over. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the intense air battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain's airspace from July 1940 to May 1941, with the heaviest fighting from July to October 1940. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941, was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Germany obtained vital oil and food supplies from the Balkan countries he was prepared to do his utmost to preserve peace in that part of Europe. For this reason he attempted to keep in check Italy's aggressive Balkan policy, to satisfy Hungarian and Bulgarian claims to Romanian territory by peaceful means, and to avoid any incident which might lead to Great Britain's direct intervention in Greece. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
At first, the German Blitzkrieg seemed to succeed. Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland,Norway , Belgium, and France. However the Soviet Union launched a counteroffensive in November 1942, trapping and destroying an entire German army at Stalingrad. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After just two hours of bombing, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed. This will officially bringing the United States into World War II. -
Holocaust
hitler trying to create a supiorier race. Concentration camps were made for free labor and also it was a way to kill jews, homosexuals,hitlers opponents etc. -
Japanese internment camps
The exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Camps were surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. Many young Japanese American men fought for the United States while their families were imprisoned. December 17, 1944, President Roosevelt announced the end of the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. -
Battle of Midway
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sought to draw the US Pacific Fleet into a battle where he could overwhelm and destroy it. US aircraft flying from USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, and USS Yorktown attacked and sunk four Japanese carriers, forcing Yamamoto to withdrawal.The Battle of Midway marked the turning point of World War II in the Pacific. -
Battle of El Alamein
This battle was fought between the British 8th Army, led by Bernard Montgomery, and the Afrika Korps, commanded by Erwin Rommel.With this victory at the Battle of El Alamein, the British Army had prevented the Axis forces from occupying Egypt and capturing the Suez Canal, which was the access gate to the Middle Eastern oil fields. -
Battle of Stalingrad
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Guadalcanal
It was a series of battles, on land and major ones at sea lasting 6 or more months. Guadalcanal was the central and biggest of the chain of islands, heavily garrisoned by the Japanese.The Americans invaded. They were not yet built up militarily for the War so they fought a 'battle of attrition'. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between Allied leaders to discuss strategy in defeating Japan. -
D-Day
Allies invaded France on the beaches of Normandy and surprised the Germans who had expected their attack at Calais. -
Yalta Conference
Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta, on the Crimean Peninsula. Each leader had an agenda for the Yalta Conference: Roosevelt asked for Soviet support in the war against Japan; Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern Europe and Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern Europe, as essential to the USSR's national security. Ultimately, the Soviets broke their agreements leading to the Cold War. -
F.D.R’s death
F.D.R. suffered from arteriosclerosis. His health was slowly declining during his last term. He one day had a cerebral hemorrhage and died that day. -
Mussolini’s assassination
Mussolini was shot and then hung upside down after being warned to leave. -
Hitler’s suicide
Officers warned hitler that russians were only a day or so from taking the chancelery. They told him to run and hide but he chose suicide instead.He shot himself with a service pistol. -
Potsdam Conference
Is considered to be the last of World War Two's conferences. The Big Three' attended ( churchill, roosevelt and stalin) -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
McArthur wanted to use the stragedy "island hopping." This meant taking one island at a time until all are taken over. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
McArthur wanted to use the stragedy "island hopping." This meant taking one island at a time until all are taken over. -
cold war
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Formation of the U.N.
A group that set out to help make peace within all the countries. -
nuremberg trials
A time in which Nazi leaders were tried for their crimes against humanity, peace, and war. -
Marshall Plan
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berlin airlift
Operation in which the U.S. dropped supplies to the people of Berlin during a seige so they would not starve and give in to communism. -
berlin wall
Barrier between West Berlin and East Berlin. A symbolic seperation between communism and democracy. -
cuban misile crisis
The Soviet Union put atomic missles in Cuba. They were facing Washington D.C. Eventually the U.S. got them to get rid of the missles.
