World War 2

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    WW2

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Killing of different ethnic groups by nazis over 6mill jews killed and 11mill in totale deaths
  • German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

    German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

    nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland

    The war between Russia and Finland, generally referred to as the Winter War,
  • Germany Invades France

    Germany Invades France

  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
  • Battle Of Britain

    Battle Of Britain

    Germany wanted to overcome the british airforce to gain air superiority to storm the Britian Island.
  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act

    United States aided its World War II allies with war materials
  • Formation of the U.N.

    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 endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps

    Imprisonment of Japanes Americans after pearl harbor bombing
  • Midway

    Midway

    World War II naval battle,
  • Battle of Alamin

    Battle of Alamin

    Germans chasing british into Alamin eygpt
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    World War II land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    Meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    the Allied invasion of western Europe
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Meeting between F.D.R., Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin
  • F.D.R’s death

    F.D.R’s death

    Warm Springs, Georgia
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

    Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam
  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan

    Make it into a democratic goverment
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic Bombs droped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki and lead to surrender of Japanes forces
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    European Recovery Program
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Allied forces airlifted supplies to a blockaded germany by the Soviet Union.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
  • Balkan Campaign

    Balkan Campaign

    the Italian invasion of Greece