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Gathering there to proclaim Wilhelm 1 of Prussia as german emperor after the French capitulation in the franco-prussian war
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the buildup of nuclear weapons and conventional military force by both of the united states and its allies
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where he went to a bar and fired a shot which stunned people, he got taken down and was arrested. he was shocked people didn't listen
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The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime.
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When Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland, initiating the so-called Winter War. The Finns sue for an armistice and have to cede the northern shores of Lake Lagoda and the small Finnish coastline on the Arctic Sea to the Soviet Union.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.
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The United States declares war on Japan, entering World War II. Japanese troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina
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The British bomb Köln (Cologne), bringing the war home to Germany for the first time. Over the next three years Anglo-American bombing reduces urban Germany to rubble.
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Following the attack on Peal Harbor, Japanese armies rolled over Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the East Indies. The war in the Pacific was fought on land, at sea, and in the air.
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General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered.
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Paris is liberated from German Control
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also known as the Crimea conference and code named the Argonaut Conference was the world war 2 meeting held of the heads of government of the US, UK, and soviet union for purpose of discussing europes postwar reorganization.
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The Japanese fought on even after the war in Europe ended. Truman decided to use the newly developed atomic bomb to end the war quickly and prevent more U.S. casualties.
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War
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an American initiative to aid Europe in which US gave 12 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies. the plan was in operation for 4 years
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end of the second world war, US, British and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany
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one of the first major international crises of the cold war. soviet union blocked the western allies railroad, road, and canal access to the sectors of berlin under western control
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suffered from arterio-scleirosis, this may have exacerbated his temper, which became even more savage when we grew older.
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Nikita Khrushchev has been selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist party. which was his first step to rise in power
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20th-century competition between two cold war rivals, the soviet union and the united states for supremacy in spaceflight capability
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Vietnam war was between communist north Vietnam and capitalist south Vietnam which commenced in 1964 and concluded 1975
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The 1960 u-2 incident occurred with Dwight D. Eisenhower being president on may 1st 1960. when a US u-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace
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1400 Cuban exiles launched became the invasion at the bay of pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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30 years the berlin wall was the defining symbol of the cold war where it separated families and keeping the people from jobs and expanding opportunities
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis and the Caribbean Crisis or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union.
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elected General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as the new president of the Soviet Union. While the election was a victory for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base that would eventually lead to the collapse of his presidency in December 1991.
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intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty agreement between US and soviet union
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soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin. Mikhail resigned as presient of Soviet Union
