WWII

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Mass killing of Jews by Germany.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.
  • Stalin Attacks Finland

    Stalin Attacks Finland

    This ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty, League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled Soviet Union from League.
  • Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister of Britain

    Replace Nevill Chamberlain as Prime Minister following latter's resignation after losing a confidence vote in House of Commons.
  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France

    German forces defeated allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Bombing of Britain by Luftwaft.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    Congress authorized the sale, lease, or exchanging of arms and supplies.
  • Hitler Takes Over the Balkans

    Hitler Takes Over the Balkans

    He did this to order sucure Gremany's Balkan flank for operation Barbarossa.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    Largest German military operation of WWII. Dec. 18, 1940 was the first operational order for invasion of Soviet Union.
  • Bombing od Pearl Harbor

    Bombing od Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombed the place making U.S. enter the war. Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan.
  • Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Internment Camps

    Japanese Americans was forced relocation and incarcinated in camps.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    A decisive naval battle in Pacific Theatre of WWII.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    An operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces.
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

    Trying to grant access to the Suez Canal(oil).
  • Battle of Stalinburg

    Battle of Stalinburg

    Major battle which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Untied States for the control over the city Stalinburg in Sounthern Russia.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    A strategy meeting with Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
  • F.D.R Death

    F.D.R Death

    He had polio in his legs. So it made him paralyzed.
  • Mussolini's Assassination

    Mussolini's Assassination

    Italian Fascist dictator. He was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan.
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler's Suicide

    Dictator of Germany kills himself, took a capsule of cyanide and shoot himself with a pistol.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Held at Cecilienkof, home of Prince Wilhelm, conference to negotiate terms for the end of WWII.
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Order of President Harry S. Truman dropped nuclear weapons on these cities. Respectively, during the final stage of WWII
  • MacAuthor's Plan for Japan

    MacAuthor's Plan for Japan

    Planned to divide Japan amongst themselves for purposes of occupation.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, to promote international co-operation.
  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials

    Series of military tribunals held by allied forces.
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    State of geopolitical tension after WWII between powers in Eastern Bloc. and Western Bloc.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    United States gives over 13 million dollars in economically support to help rebuild Western European economies.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    One of the first major international crises of Cold War. Blocked allies railway, road, canal access to sectors of Berlin.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    A 13-day confrontation between the Untied States and Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Guarded barrier that divided Berlin. Families were separated and kept people from working in due of communism.