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Union of Austria and Germany
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British and French convinced the Czechs to give up Sudentenland to appease Hitler
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Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, in which the two nations promised not to fight each other and to divide up land in Eastern Europe
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Hitler orders a "lightning war" or constant bombing on Norway and Belgium
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Hitler invades Britain between August and September
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Hitler breaks Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Soviet Union to take over their vast natural resources
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A surprise attack on American soil that killed 2,400 people and the reason America entered World War 2
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A goal of the U.S. to defeat the Japanese one island at a time and allowed them to move North
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FDR, Churchill, and Stalin meet and decide to first fight the war in Europe, then in the Pacific
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Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin on February 1945, where the three leaders mode agreements regarding the end of World War 2
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Code name for June 6, 1944, the day that Allied forces invaded France during World War 2
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Hitler commits suicide
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Victory in Europe Day, the day the Allies won World War 2 in Europe
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A code name for the A-Bomb;
Truman warned Japan to surrender -
U.S. drops two A-Bombs, one on August 6th and the other on the 9th. Japan refuses to surrender twice
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United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of Communism
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Massive aid package offered by the U.S. to Europe to hold countries rebuild after World War 2
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A military alliance between several North Atlantic States to safeguard them, from the presumed threat of the Soviet Unions communist bloc; countries from other regions later joined the alliance
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Soviets were angry because the Western Allies rebuilt West Germany's economy. The Soviets controlled East Germany
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Mutual Defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe set up in 1955
