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Holocaust
In 1945, a mass murder of at least 6 million European Jews along with Gypsies and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime. This caused the Nuremberg Trials. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust -
Second Sino-Japanese War
This event was a military conflict fought between China and Japan. This took place from 1937 to 1945. The Marco Polo Bridge incident of 1937 caused this event to happen. Japan started to become more powerful. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Second_Sino-Japanese_War -
Marhsall Plan
A massive aid package offered by the United States to strengthen democratic governments. United states offered aid to the Soviet Union but stalin declined and forbade Eastern European countries to accept American aid -
Sudentenland
Nazi’s anexation of Czechoslovakia’s northen and western border regions. Czechoslovakia was one of only two remaining democracies in Eastern Europe. Still, Britain and France were not willing to go to war to save it. -
Nazi Soviet Pact
Bound Hitler and Stalin peaceful relations. Secretly agreed not to fight if the other went to war and to divide up poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them. The pact was not based on friendship or respect but on mutual need. -
German Blitzkrieg
German forces tried out the blitzkrieg tactic which was used to create disorganization among enemy forces through mobile forces and firepower in Poland in 1939. Gave people ideas for operations. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg -
German invasion of Poland
Took place in 1939. Adolf Hitler sought the nonaggression pact so that he could lessen the possibility of a French-Polish military alliance against Germany before Germany had a chance to rearm. Poland remained under the control of Germans until January 1945. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070 -
Lend-Lease Act
Passed in March 11, 1941, this act authorized the president to send U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. This act brought the U.S. one step closer to being brought into the war. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/lend-lease-act -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. Over 2,000 American soldiers were killed and 1,000 were wounded. The United States did not like increasing attitude that Japan has towards China. This made Japan angry and caused them to attack. This caused the United States to join World War II. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor -
Bataan Death March
After the U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula, approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make a 65 mile march to prison camps in April 1942. Lieutenant General Homma Masaharu was held responsible for the death march and was executed on April 3, 1946. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march -
Manhattan Project
Americans were in an effort to create an atomic bomb. The first bomb was tested on July 16, 1945 at Trinity Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. This caused the nuclear age. http://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp -
D-Day
June 6, 1944. 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along 50 miles of strongly fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. Prior, allies put together a campaign in order to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in Northwest Europe. Surprise attack caught the Allies off guard. Was the costliest action ever fought by the U.S Army which suffered over 100,000 casualties. -
Yalta Conference
This was a meeting between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt that took place in February 1945. The three leaders agreed for Germany’s surrender and began plans for a post-war. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference -
VE Day
Was the public Holiday celebrated on may 8th. Celebrated the Nazi’s German surrender to the Allies. Many people put out flags as a symbol of winning the war. -
Atomic bomb of Hiroshima
After President Harry S. Truman called for Japan to surrender which Japan ignored Truman made to choice to drop an American B-29 bomb over the city of Hiroshima in Japan. More than 70,000 people died from the impact of them bomb. -
Atomic bomb of Nagasaki
Getting no response from Japan Truman dropped another second B-29 on the city Nagasaki. The bomb killed 40,000 people. Japan finally announced it surrender to the U.S. -
VJ Day
Marks the day of the final surrender and end of World War 2. Many people celebrated the ending of the war. A peace treaty was signed between the U.S and Japan -
Nuremberg
The Allies had agreed that Axis leaders should be tried for “crime against humanity”. Top Nazi’s recieved death and nearly 200 Germans and Austrians were tried and found guilty. -
Cold War
A state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one side and the Soviet Union on the other. Conflict between power and technology. No armed conflicts were used.
