Dakota Jones

  • Anshcluss of Austria

    Anshcluss of Austria

    The union of Austria and Germany orchestrated by Hitler
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Pact

    An agreement between Hitler and Stalin to keep peace between each country
  • The Munich Conference

    The Munich Conference

    British and French leaders again chose appeasement and convinced the Czechs to give up Sudentenland to Hitler.
  • Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg

    hitler orders a "lighting war" or constant bombing on Norway and Belgium.
  • Operation Sea Lion

    Operation Sea Lion

    Hitler invades Britian.
  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler breaks the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades the Soviet Union to take their vast natural resources.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    A surprise attack on American soil that killed 2,400 peopole and the reason America entered the war.
  • Island Hopping

    Island Hopping

    A goal of the U.S. to defeat the Japanese one island at a timeand allowed them to move North.
  • "Big 3"

    "Big 3"

    FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet and decided to first fight the war in Europe and then in the Pacific (Japanese).
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Where it was decided that the Soviet Union would fight in the war against Japan.
  • D-day Assault

    D-day Assault

    The invasion of France to defeat the German.
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    Delegates from 50 nations convened in San Fransisco to draft the charter for the U.N.
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    When the war in Britian officially surrendered, victory in Europe.
  • The Manhattan Project

    The Manhattan Project

    A code name for the Atomic bomb. Truman warned Japan that they should surrender because of the WMD that the U.S. had.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    Japan refuses to surrender and the U.S. dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima.
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    Japan Refuses to surrender again so the U.S. drops the A-bomb on Nagaski.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    A document that contained or limited communism to the areas already under Soviet control.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    The aid package that the U.S. offered to strengthen Democratic ties.
  • NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

    NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

    The U.S., Canada,and 10 other states joined together in this alliance
  • The Division of Germany

    The Division of Germany

    Germany turned into Eastern and Western blocs.
  • The Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Pact

    The Soviet Union's own military alliance.