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World War 2

  • Gorbachev

    Gorbachev

    Secretary of the communist party in the Soviet Union
  • Japan’s invasion of China

    Japan’s invasion of China

    Japanese said they were fired by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    Blitzkrieg is a war tactic and means lightning warfare
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Germany invaded Poland to get “living space” according to Hitler
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Germans defeated British through air attacks called “The Bilte”
  • Tripartite pact

    Tripartite pact

    Signed in Germany that officially made the Axis powers
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    U.S lent war goods to British for lease of naval bases
  • Germany takes Leningrad

    Germany takes Leningrad

    Germany went through Leningrad’s defenses and killed more than 1000 Russians
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Surprise attack by Japan against the U.S
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    Superpowers agreed to dedicate to keeping world peace
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    Reinhard Heydrich ordered this to talk about the Final Solution
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    U.S navy beat out a Japanese invasion on Midway Atoll
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    British and us troops landed in Normandy
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    The setting for the 2nd wartime conference of the three principle Allied leaders
  • Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Japanese had pilots who volunteered 2 dive-bomb into allies ship
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

    He found out that they won’t be able to stop Russian defense for a few more days and committed suicide shortly after that
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    Officially was the end of World War 2
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Stalin, Churchill, and Truman met to discuss the end of World War 2
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Americans dropped the first ever bomb on Hiroshima
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    Japanese surrendered from the U.S
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    U.S perception of world divided between free and enslaved people
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Rebuild European economies through capitalism, and stopping communism and soviet influence
  • NATO

    NATO

    Created by the Allies because of threat made by the Soviet Union
  • Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Communist leader of China. Zedong was the leader of the People’s Republic of China.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Pyongyang leaders made troops go across the thirty-eight parallel to push South Korean defenders and to take over Seoul
  • Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    He died of a stroke.

    Leader of the Soviet Union
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Countermeasure for when NATO admitted west Germany and allowed it to rearm
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    Soviet Union succeeded in launching Sputnik
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    People exiled from Cuba launched an invasion on the south coast of Cuba
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Made to make sure East Germans didn’t go to the West
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    War between U.S and Soviet Union. Ultimatum of U>S has to give up the missiles in Turkey.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    South Vietnam invaded by the north
  • Soviet Union Falls

    Soviet Union Falls

    George H.W Bush decided to follow his own methods on restoring the Soviet Union