-
1931, Japan invades Chine or Manchuria. it turns into an indepent state called Manchuko. Chinese suffered continual territorial enroachment from the Japanese. Chinese peasants were brutally suppressed. 1937- japanese and chinese tropps on the frontier known as Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Sparked the second Sino- Japanese War. Japanese slaughtered 300, 000 civilians and raped 80, 000 women. thousand of Chinese were killed in bombings of citie by Japanese air force. 10 to 20 million Chinese dead
-
1, 300 German aircrafts invaded Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany because Poland requested military assitance from there. German army groups invaded Poland from Slovakia in the south and Prussia in the north. German air force had advanced aircrafts than the Poles so they established an air supremacy by attacking/destroying the Polish Air Force. This gave way for the Germans to attack road and rail junctions and concentrations of Polish troops. Towns and villages were bombed.
-
air forces of both countries clashed over the United Kingdom. The french quit WWII leaving Britain alone. Britain had the great side due to an effective air defense system, first-rate pilots, and military leader Air Marshal Hugh Dowding. The Germans were infortunate because they ahd no navy left after the conquest of Norway, and their army was unprepared, and Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses. Also the German had poor intelligience and no idea of British vulnerabilites.
-
The axis powers are made when Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies wiht the signing of this pact in Berlin.
-
Provided the U.S. military aid to foreign nations during WWII. The act enables British to keep fighting unitl events led American into conflict. They were close to war.
-
Hitler wanted to decimate the city and give it over to Finland. More than 1,000 Russians were killed. The Luftwaffe continued to raid the city. An estimation of 650, 000 Jeningrad citizens died.
-
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. They destroyed 20 American naval vessels and 200 airplanes. 2,00 soldiers died and sailors dies as well as 1,000 wounded. After 3 days, the Japanes allies Germany and italy decalred war on the United States.
-
Also known as the lightning war. This gained weapons like tanks, planes,and artillery. The Germans used the Blitzberg against Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslovia, and greece, They did not defeat Great Britain.
-
The Americans destroyed Japan's four aircraft carriers. This was one of the most decisive battles of WWII
-
More than 9,000 soldiers killed and more than 100, 000 soldiers began a march across Europe to defeat Hitler. This day was the day of Normandy landings
-
conference in which top 15 Nazi bureaucrats met to coordinate the final solution in which they could exterminate the entire Jewish Population of Europe
-
Taken place in Crimea, three allied leaders, roosevelt, churchill, and stalin met to plan the defeat of the Nazi Germany.
-
This is when the Uinted States fought for an captured these islands
-
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by consuming a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Also Eva, his wife, commits suicide as well.
-
Great Britain and theUnited States celebrated victory in Europe marked in the end of WWII in Europe
-
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of WWII.
-
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's 1st deployed atomic bomb over the Japnases city of Hiroshima. 80, 000 thousand people and 90% of the people dispersed.
-
Japan surrenders unconditionally to the allies.
-
50 nations met in San Francisco to complete the charter of the United Nations.
-
the U.S supports Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid
-
this channeled over 13$ bilion to fiannce the economic recovery of Europe between 1948- 1951
-
it was the first artificial Earth satlellite. the Soviet Union launced it.
-
North Atlantic Treaty organization. it was based upon the intergovernmental military alliance.
-
Mao Zedong a communist revolutionary leader proclaims People's Republic of China.
-
a war between the republic of Korea supported by the United Nations and the Democratic Republic of China
-
he ruled since 1920's. afterwards the heir was Malenkov
-
north Vietnam and southern allies against south vietnam
-
a mutual defense organization that puts the soviets in command of the armed forces
-
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA paramilitary group
-
it was constructed by the German democratic republic. it cut off west berlin from east berlin
-
30 day confrontation between soviet union/cuba and the U.S.
-
7th and last undisputed leader of the Soviet union served int he communist party
-
it collasped into 15 seperate states
