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F.D.R death
F.D.R place of death was warm springs GA due to interracial hemorrhage -
holocaust
was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews -
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Röhm. -
Germany attacks France
German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. -
battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force the Luftwaffe. -
Lend-Lease Act
was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, Great Britain, the Republic of China -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Blitzkrieg is a method of warfare whereby an attacking force, spearheaded by a dense concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry -
Japanese internment camps
the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry -
Guadalcanal
It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Battle of Stalingrad
largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Mussolini’s assassination
dictator of Italy until his downfall in 1943 -
Tehran Conference
a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
D-Day
The operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control -
Hitler’s suicide
killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva) committed suicide with him by taking cyanide -
Potsdam Conference
was a meeting of the Allied Powers in order to come to an agreement on various issues involving the end of World War II. -
Potsdam Conference
meeting of the Allied Powers in order to come to an agreement on various issues involving the end of World War II -
Formation of the U.N.
pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace -
Nuremburg Trials
the Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, which tried the most important leaders of Nazi Germany -
cold war
state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
rebuilding of the country and the formation of a democratic government, and helped to draft a new constitution -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War -
berlin wall
Wall cut off West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it -
Battle of Midway
decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
Cuban Missile Crisis
President John F. Kennedy was informed of a U-2 spy-plane’s discovery of Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba.
