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Germany Invades Poland
Germany Invades Poland -
Stalin attacks Finland
The Red Army attacks Finland with 26 divisions -
Germany Attacks France
Germany attacks France -
Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister of Britain
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain -
Battle of Britain
Destructive air raids by the Luftwaffe -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler takes over the Balkans -
Lend-Lease Act
U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Lightning War in Soviet Union -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor -
Holocaust
Hitler killed Jews -
Japanese Internment Camps
US citizens were imprisoned during World War II because they were of Japanese ancestry. -
Battle of Midway
A naval battle against the Japanese -
Battle of Stalingrad
turning point in World War Two in Europe -
Guadalcanal
The US fought against the Japanese for possession of Guadalcanal -
Battle of El Alamein
Two battles of El Alamein in World War II -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, FDR, and Winston Churchill; also called Eureka -
D-Day
One of the largest amphibious military assaults in history; Also called Operation Overlord -
Yalta Conference
WWII conference of the three chief Allied leaders, FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, which met at Yalta to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. -
Death of FDR
Died from cerebral hemorrhage, a type of stroke -
Mussolini’s assassination
Italian partisans kill Mussolini -
Hitler’s Suicide
Hitler committed suicide -
Nuremburg Trials
series of trials held in Nuremberg, Germany -
Potsdam Conference
The "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
Planning commenced for the invasion of Japan -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The US bombed Japan to end the war -
Bombing of Nagasaki
The US bombed Japan to end the war -
Formation of the U.N.
Formed to prevent future wars -
Cold War
War that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. -
Marshall Plan
American program to aid Europe -
Berlin Airlift
The delivery of food and other goods to Soviet-blockaded West Berlin -
Berlin Wall
East German government built the Berlin Wall in order to keep its citizens from fleeing to the West -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict
