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General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Germany invades Poland from the land and sky. This was an attempt to gain back land Germany had lost.
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The Battle of Britain was a successful defence of Great Britain from German air raids.
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Japan chose to side with the axis powers aand invade southeast asia.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan joined together to found the axis powers. They made a pact of mutural assistance during an attack.
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U.S. providing military assistance to foreign nations during WWII. It let the U.S. help in WWII without being involved.
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Hitler tried to invade the Soviet Union in the winter using the Blitzkrieg stadegy. It didn't work and Hitler lost a lot of men.
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Germany takes over Leningrad in an attempt to cut of the rest of Russia.
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Japan was trying to gain control of the Pacific islands.
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A Nazi conference that was held in the streets of Berlin where officals talked about the "final solution".
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The first major win for the U.S. by taking down some of Japan's navy and only losing one aircraft carrier of its own.
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The Allied armies stormed the beaches of Normandy, Franch liberating France.
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Conference in Yalta in which the three Allied leaders planed the final defeat of Nazi Germany.
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American soldiers make their first strikes in Japan.
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Hitler saw that his was going to lose the war so he shot himself.
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Allies celebrate victory over the Germans and Italians. Victory over Europe day.
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A conference in Potsdam Germany where the leaders of the Allied nations came together and talked about peace settlements but not peace treaties.
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The United States dropped two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan on August 6th and 9th 1945.
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Victory over Japan day. Allies celebrate winning the war against Japan.
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United nations was formed to keep peace around the world.
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President Truman said that the U.S. would provide political, economic, and military assistance to any democratic nation who needed help.
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President Truman signs the Marshall Plan. A plan that would help the nations of Europe recover after the war.
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The U.S. and 11 other countries made a pact to stop the Soviet Union and the spread of communism.
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Mao Zedong gains control over China and makes in communist.
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North Korea invaded South Korea to make them communist and the U.S. came in to help South Korea.
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North Vietnam invaded South and wanted to be communist.
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Estanbished a mutual defence oganization. Made a unified military command that was a plan to stregnthen the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet Union launched their first satellites into space. The launch started the space race.
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Stalin dies and Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier.
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The U.S. sends people to Cuba to stop communist from growing.
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A large wall that the Soviet Union put up to divide east and west germany.
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The Soviet Union gave Cuba nuclear missiles which were then aime at the United States.
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The Soviet Union fell and became Russia.
