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Spanish Civil War Start
The war ended with the victory of the conservative Nationalists, the overthrow of the democratic government, and the exile of thousands of left-leaning Spaniards, many of whom fled to refugee camps in Southern France. With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime. -
Munich Agreements
The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Nazi Germany. -
Spanish Civil War End
The war ended with the victory of the conservative Nationalists, the overthrow of the democratic government, and the exile of thousands of left-leaning Spaniards, many of whom fled to refugee camps in Southern France. With the establishment of a dictatorship led by General Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, all right-wing parties were fused into the structure of the Franco regime. -
Hitler Rnounces the Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles
Germany violated the treaty by occupying the rest of Czechoslovakia. -
Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pct is signed
Since fighting a two front war in World War I had split Germany's forces, it had weakened and undermined their offensive; thus, played a large role in Germany losing the First World War. Hitler was determined not to repeat the same mistakes. So, he planned ahead and made a pact with the Soviets - the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west. As the Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east. After the mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained an undisputed advantage. -
Britain and France declare War on Germany
On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany because they had a treaty with Poland in which they had undertaken to help Poland if its independence was threatened by force. -
Hitler invades France
In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. -
Battle of Britain Start
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force, especially Fighter Command. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War 2 that began on 22 June 1941. Over 3.9 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 km front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions -
Battle of Stalingrad Start
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southwestern Russia. -
D-Day
June 1944 was a major turning point of World War II, particularly in Europe. Although the initiative had been seized from the Germans some months before, so far the western Allies had been unable to mass sufficient men and material to risk an attack in northern Europe. -
Yalta Conference
The Big Three Churchill (Great Britain), President Roosevet (USA), & Stalin (Soviet) at the end of World War II agreed that Stalin would join the fight against Japan to end World War II along as the United States & Great Britain allowed the Soviet Union to control Eastern Europe after the War. The Soviet Union agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. This would establish the division in Europe between the United States (Western Europe) and the Soviet Union (Eastern Europe). -
Germany Surrenders
The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April and early May 1945. Generally ended the war. -
Atomic bomb of Hiroshima
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
6 Aug 1945 During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the Allies of World War II conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. -
Truman Doctrine
It was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S President Harry Truman. Historians often consider it was the start of the Cold war and containmant policy to start expansion. -
Marshall Plan
The American program to aid Europe, which the U.S gave economic support to help rebuild European econmies after the end of WWII in order to prevent the spread of the Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Airlift
It was one of the first major international crises of the cold war. -
NATO Pact
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernment military alliance based on the North Atlanic Treaty. -
Mao Tse-Tung takes control of China
Mao Tse-Tung was a leader of the communist party. He took control of China in 1949, bringing communism to the country. He is known for his military strategies, and his good political views. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a military conflict between South Korean who was supported by the United Nations and North Korea, China with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was resulted in the division of Korea by an agreement of the Allies. -
Warsaw Pact
It was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of central and eastern europe in existenc during the Cold war. -
Vietnam War
It was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam (supported by the People's Republic of China and other communist allies). -
Soviet Invasion of Hungary
The invasion was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungart and it's Soviet Union policies. -
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
Castro was the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then took over as the president of Cuba. He was for communism and was a political leader. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
An unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The U.S. armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and the Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
SALT treaty
International treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union (the Cold War superpowers). They signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty Agreement. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Russian paratroopers landed in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The country was already in the civil war. The prime minister tried to keep Muslim tradition within the nation and he wanted more belief in the country. In december, the prime minister, Amin, was shot by the Russians and was replaced by Babrak Kamal. -
Mikhail Gorbachev takes control in the USSR
Gorbachev was part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1970 he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Soviet Union. In 1985 he takes complete control of the USSR. -
The end of Cold War
The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War.