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Japan invades manchuria
The Kwantung Army of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. At the war’s end in February of 1932, the Japanese got the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Munich Pact
This was an agreement at Munich, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy. It provided cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory of Czechoslovakia. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht is called the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom, this was a pogrom against the Jews carried out by SA military forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. they were also called D-Day -
Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland basically was the beginning of World War II. When Germany invaded, it began on September 1st 1939, right after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and right after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact. -
lend lease act
The Lend-Lease act,it is actually A Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, it was a program under the United States that supplied the United Kingdom, Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. -
Exec Order 8022
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped to eliminate racial discrimination in the U.S. defense industry and was an important step toward ending it in federal government employment. -
Alantic charter
The Atlantic Charter was a statement issued on August 14th, 1941 that set out American and British goals for the world after the end of WWll -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprising military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. -
Exec Order 9066
This order was authorized for the evacuation of all people deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to camps further inland. Such as Japanese and germans -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific ocean during World War II , this was six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an invasion of French North Africa during WW2. The French colonies in the area were dominated by the French, formally aligned with Germany but of mixed loyalties. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the bulge is also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, it was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, -
Korematsu v. United States
Fred Korematsu was the son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland, California. He was convicted for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II. -
Yalta Conference
This was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reconstruction of Germany and Europe. -
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, who were civilians. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military trials held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. -
Truman Doctrine
This was an American foreign policy whose purpose was to contain Soviet political expansion during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
This was America for foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $12 billion dollars to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Israel is established
David Ben-Gurion, the boss of the Jewish Agency, said the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. -
Berlin Airlift
This was one of the first major crises of the Cold War. During the national occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the areas of Berlin under Western control. -
US establishes NATO
President Truman and Secretary Acheson making the United States a founding member of NATO. The Alliance worked to introduce countries to each other through educational films, etc... -
Korean Conflict (War)
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. It started when North Korea invaded South Korea. Fights along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended on 27 July 1953 in an armistice. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed force. -
Soviet Union launches Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched the earth's first satellite, called Sputnik I. The successful launch was a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, they had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific event first. But they didn't and they worked hard to put the first man on the moon -
Rise of the Berlin Wall
This was the German government began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall in berlin. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Soviet troops invaded Kabul on an order from Moscow to replace Hafizullah Amin with the Soviet Babrak Karmal as head of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. -
fall of the berlin wall
This marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. And the fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterward.