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Germany invades Poland
Germany planes bombed Poland on land and in air. The attack came without any warning. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin failed to get Finland to his own empire. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Churchill declared that "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat". People liked him and he soon became the prime minister of Britain. -
Germany Attacks France
Hitler orders Germany to attack Frnace as part as the war. -
Battle Of Britain
Germans began a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain. -
Lend-Lease Act
This legislation gave the FDR the authority to aid any nation whose defense he believed vital to the United States and to accept repayment or any other direct or indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler believed a larger area to invade would increase success and wanted to make it easier to bring mire supplies across the USSR. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
German forces invaded the Soviet Union. -
Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese surprise air attack in Hawaii that made the Us declare war. -
Formation of the U.N.
Represetatives of 26 nations war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations. -
Holocaust
The Holcaust involed the Nazi And the Jews. It was a mass murder of the Jews. Hitler controlled the Holocasut. -
Battle of Midway
The United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its naval pilots. -
Battle of El Alamein
British General Montgomery spent months building up an overwhelming advantage in men and armour, before launching his attacks against Field Marshal Rommel's German and Italian troops. -
Guadalcanal
the Allies’ first major offensive in the Pacific, 6,000 U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and seized the airfield, surprising the island’s 2,000 Japanese defenders -
Battle of Stalingrad
Was a Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the Russian S.F.S.R. during World War II. -
Japanese internment camps
All Americans of Japanese descent living in military exclusion zones on the West Coast were forced to leave their homes and move to internment camps. -
Tehran Conferance
Winston Churchill,Joseph Stalin,and Roosevelt planned to discuss D-Day, war strategy, and defeating Japan. -
D-Day
The allies invaded western Europe. -
Yalta Conference
A conference of the three chief Allied leaders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ,Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, which met at Yalta in the Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. -
F.D.R's dealth
Early in April 1945 he traveled to his cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia the “Little White House”to rest.In the afternoo while sitting for a portrait, he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage, and he died a few hours later. -
Mussolini’s assassination
Italian partisans killed Mussolini. He was killed with his mistress as well. -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler shot himself the day of April 30,1945 -
Potsdam Conference
It was an Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam, Berlin. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
He acted as a leader and rebuilt the country and the formation of the democratic government. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
the United States used its massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. -
Nuremburg Trials
it was series of trials held in Nürnberg,Germany which former Nazi leaders were indicted as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal. -
Cold War
tension between nations and it is a war known by many people because of how big it was known to be. -
Marshall Plan
A sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries. -
Berlin Aircraft
The airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. -
Berlin Wall
It was a wall that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that brought them close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles.
