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Gorbachev
Secretary of the communist party in the Soviet Union -
Japan’s invasion of China
Japanese said they were fired by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Blitzkrieg is a war tactic and means lightning warfare -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland to get “living space” according to Hitler -
Battle of Britain
Germans defeated British through air attacks called “The Bilte” -
Tripartite pact
Signed in Germany that officially made the Axis powers -
Lend-Lease Act
U.S lent war goods to British for lease of naval bases -
Germany takes Leningrad
Germany went through Leningrad’s defenses and killed more than 1000 Russians -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Surprise attack by Japan against the U.S -
Formation of the U.N.
Superpowers agreed to dedicate to keeping world peace -
Wannsee Conference
Reinhard Heydrich ordered this to talk about the Final Solution -
Battle of Midway
U.S navy beat out a Japanese invasion on Midway Atoll -
D-Day
British and us troops landed in Normandy -
Yalta Conference
The setting for the 2nd wartime conference of the three principle Allied leaders -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Japanese had pilots who volunteered 2 dive-bomb into allies ship -
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
Officially was the end of World War 2 -
Potsdam Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman met to discuss the end of World War 2 -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Americans dropped the first ever bomb on Hiroshima -
VJ Day
Japanese surrendered from the U.S -
Truman Doctrine
U.S perception of world divided between free and enslaved people -
Marshall Plan
Rebuild European economies through capitalism, and stopping communism and soviet influence -
NATO
Created by the Allies because of threat made by the Soviet Union -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Communist leader of China. Zedong was the leader of the People’s Republic of China. -
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
He died of a stroke.
Leader of the Soviet Union -
Warsaw Pact
Countermeasure for when NATO admitted west Germany and allowed it to rearm -
Sputnik
Soviet Union succeeded in launching Sputnik -
Bay of Pigs
People exiled from Cuba launched an invasion on the south coast of Cuba -
Berlin Wall
Made to make sure East Germans didn’t go to the West -
Cuban Missile Crisis
War between U.S and Soviet Union. Ultimatum of U>S has to give up the missiles in Turkey. -
Vietnam War
South Vietnam invaded by the north -
Soviet Union Falls
George H.W Bush decided to follow his own methods on restoring the Soviet Union
