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Union of Austria and germany. It violated the versailles treaty and created a brief warscare
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British and French leaders chose appeasment again. They coved into Hitlers' demands and then persuaded the Czechs to surrender the sudetenland
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Hitler and Stalin anoounced nonaggression fight and divide up Poland between them.
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Blitzkrieg, lightining war, was used against Poland. It improved tank and airpower technology.
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Invasion of Britain. Hitler launched a massive air strikes against the island nation, much of London was destroyed and thousands of people were killed
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A plan took its name from the medieval German leader Frederick Barbarossa. Hitler launched a new blitzkrieg in the Soviet Union and killed two and a half million
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Japan surprised the United states when airplanes bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day America declared war on japan and in return Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S.
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The battle lasted for 5 days. Attacks from the allies were carried out by planes launched from aircraft carriers. More importantly the Americans sank one Japans aircraft carrier
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to focus on ending war in Europe before Asia
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It was a conference between the big 3 at Yalta. They planned an atmosphere distrust
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The allies chose D-Day for the invention of France. Planes dropped paratroops behind enemy lines and thousands of ships ferried allied troops across the English channel
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Victory in Europe and that’s when officially the war ended in Europe
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Countries formed a world organization to play a greater role in world affairs
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Allied scientists conducted research of bombing or racing to harness the atom. The allied countries warned Japan to surrender or they will face a complete destruction, but the Japanese ignored the warning
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America plans dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima. The bomb flattened four square miles and instantly killed 70,000 people.
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Japanese leaders didn’t respond or surrender so the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This time more than 40,000 people were killed and it led Japan to surrender
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A doctrine named after President Truman to contain communism.
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To beat communism and strengthen democracy, the US offered money or aid packages to help countries rebuild.
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The soviets were angery because the Western Allies help rebuild West Germany's economy. The Soviet's controlled East Germany.
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Countries pledged to help one another
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The Soviet's responded to NATO and formed their own military alliances.
