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Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
By being the British prime minister, Winston led Britain to victory in the second World War. -
Holocaust
It was a genocide in World War II. Hitler disliked Jews and blamed everything that was wrong on them. Hitler and his Nazis killed 6 million Jews. -
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler ordered his Nazis to purge and kill the paramilitary SA organization leaders because Hitler feared that they had become too powerful. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland and starts the Holocaust. Poland is the homeland of the Jews. Hitler does not like Jews so he decides to take over their homeland. -
Stalin attacks Finland
The USSR and the Soviet Union are at war and Stalin's men win the War and invade Finland. -
Germany attacks France
Germany attacked France through central Belgium. They then moved to the Belgian-French boarder and attacked them through there. Germany wanted to invade Western Europe. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the second war. The Air Force defended Britain against attacks from the Nazis from Germany. -
Lend-Lease Act
This act was to promote the defense of the United States. The US gave countries free oil. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
A method of warfare. Short, fast, and powerful attacks to breakdown the defense. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler wanted to take the Balkans to expand the amount of area available for his invasion of the USSR -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Pearl Harbor was a surprise air strike by the Japanese Navy Air service. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because the United States cut off their oil supply. -
Guadalcanal
The Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands during World War II. -
Formation of the U.N.
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations to make peace. -
Japanese internment camps
F.D.R. forced relocation and incarceration in camps to all people of Japanese ancestry. . -
Battle of Midway
The Japanese sent their Navy to Midway island. But the US was already there. They began war and the US won. -
Battle of Stalingard
The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany, its Allies and the Soviet Union for the Soviet city of Stalingrad. -
Battle of El Alamein
The British kept losing their battles and was pushed away to a village called El Alamein. This was easier to defend because of the desert. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between Joseph Stalin, F.D.R., and Winston Churchill. This meeting was to strategize their plans for World War II. -
D-Day
The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by beach landings in Normandy. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
He became supreme commander for Japan and was in charge of its ruling. -
Yalta Conference
This was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. -
F.D.R’s death
F.D.R. dies from Intracerebral Hemorrhage at his house in Warm Springs, Georgia. -
Mussolini’s assassination
Benito Mussolini was assassinated in the final days of World War II in Europe. He was killed by Italian partisans. -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler got too frustrated and stressed with the war that it caused him to commit suicide by shooting himself. This led to Germany to surrender. -
Potsdam Conference
This conference was for Joseph Stalin Winston Churchill and Harry Truman to decide the end of World War II. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki was the response of Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during the Holocaust of World War II. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a war that happened after World War II between the Soviet Union and the US. -
Marshall Plan
This was an Initiative aid to Western Europe. The US gave 13 billion dollars to help rebuild Western European economies. -
Berlin Airlift
The United States flew over to Berlin with food, water, medicine, and other supplies to help the people that were trapped. -
Berlin Wall
This wall was built to separate the communist and democratic of Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crises was formed because The US and the Soviet Union were at War with each other. The president of the US found out that the Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba and planned to attack the Us.
