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Holocaust
Nazis took Jews into camps to work -
night of long knives
hitler ordered followers to murder leaders -
Germany invades Poland
used the Blitzkreig strategy and bombed Poland -
Stalin attack finland
begins Russo Finish war -
Land Lease act
provided the US military supplies -
Germany attacks france
Went through Ardenes forest to attack France -
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britan
he replaced neville chamberlin and was voted in by the House of Commons -
Battle of Britan
Germany and Britan airforces fought over London -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Germany invaded Greece after Yugoslavia -
German Blitzkreig on the Soviet union
Under codename "Barbrossa" the Nazis invaded the soviet union, biggest German military operation of WW2 -
Bombing of Peral Harbor
Japan bombs Peral Harbor which is an american military base -
Japanese Internment camps
Japanese sent to these camps in WW2 -
Battle of Midway
United States vs japan and a desisive naval battle -
Guandacanal
first big win of the war for the allies in the pacific -
Battle of Stalingrad
turning point of WW2, germans lost in russia -
Battle of El Alamein
prevented axis powers from getting further -
Tehran Conference
Stalin, Rosevelt, and Churchill to strategy against Western Europe -
D Day
allied forces invaded Northern France in Normandy -
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Mcarthurs plan for japan
after japan was defeated in WW2 the united states helped them recover -
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Nuremburg Trials
allied powers (Britan, France, Soviet Union, United States) listened to the hearings of 22 major Nazi criminals -
Yalta Conference
meeting with the heads of the US government -
FDR dies
in warm springs -
Mussolinis assasanation
In europe at the end of WW2 -
Hitlers Suicide
At a bunker in headquarters in Berlin hitler shoots himself in the head -
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Postdam Conference
takes place in Cecliniof and the conference of allies -
atomic bombing in hiroshima and nagasaki
United States dropped bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to quickly end the war -
Formation of UN
created after WW2 to prevent another war -
Marshall Plan
american to aid western europe -
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cold war
soviet union fought together against axis powers -
Berlin Airlift
First major crisis of the cold war -
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Berlin Wall
divided berlin guarded by a concrete barrier from east germany and east berlin -
cuban missle crisis
war over instiallation of nuclear soviet missles aimed at cuba
