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Germany invades Poland
Hitler or the Nazi's invade poland to help protect the Germans who were currently in Poland, and Hitler claims that Poland wanted to invade Germany. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin attacks Finland after Germans try to attack Finland. It was to help the Soviets regain their Russian possesions and to protect the Russian borders/ Leningrad. -
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minster of Britain
He lead Great Britain in World War 2 in result becomes Prime Minister from the Win and led a very important role. He also won a nobel prize -
Battle of Britain
Battle between Germans and the British over Great Britains airspace. -
Germany attacks France
France, Russia, and England were allies. They simply did not want France to defeat them first and wanted to prevent the Allies from threatning Germany. -
Lend-Lease Act
Means for providing the U.S. with military aid to foreign nations during world war 2. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler mainly did it to increase the area of reign in order to invade the He needed more space to bring in more resources, and thought a bigger area meant it would be easier to win. -
German Blizkrieg on Soviet Union
Hitlet tries to invade the Soviet Union for more resources but his plan failed. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan launches a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Holocaust
The genocide of european jews by Hitler -
Japanese Internment Camps
After the attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. government ordered an internment where about 110,000 people from the pacific coast of Japan were excluded from their homes and forced to move into Camps. -
Battle of Midway
United states defeats Japan during World War 2. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and the allies fought Soviet Union for the control of Stalingrad. -
Guadacanal Campaign
During 1942, when the US marines arrived to try to defeat the Japanese -
Battle of El Alamein
The north african campaign between the forces of the Bristish Empire and the German Italian Army. -
Tehran Conference
Help the allied leaders discuss strategies -
D Day
The allied invasion of German-occupied France. -
Cold War
Tension between the US and the Soviet union about military and polotical means. -
Yalta Conference
Germany's surrender at the end of World War 2, and was the last wartime meeting between Joseph Stalin, Wiston Churchhill and Franklin Rosovelt. -
F.D.R's Death
Franklin Rosovelt's Death in Warm Springs, Ga. it was very unfortunate -
Mussolini's Assisination
He was executed;Stopped by communist partisians, shot and then his body was taken to Milan and hung upside down. -
Adolf Hitlers Suicide
To avoid making a spectacle of himself, he had suffered a gunshot wound. -
Potsdam Conference
a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans towards the end of Worl War 2. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
He became Supreme Commander for the allied powers in Japan. He formed the democratic government and helped create a new constitution. He helped Japan recover from the War. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States dropped a large bomb on Japan. It flattened the city and then the United States dropped it again on Nagasaki. -
Nuremberg Law
The nazis announced two laws that removed citizenship from the jews and forbade marriage between the jews and the non jews. -
Formation of the U.N.
Created shortly after World War 2, countries involved wanted to make an international orginization that focused on World Peace. -
Marshall Plan
To foster economic recovery in Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
Airlift that supplied food and fuel to the citizens of West Berlin when the Russians closed off their land success. -
Berlin Wall
Seperated East and West Berlin in order from fleeing to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was between the US and the Soviet Union and brought the world into a nuclear battle.
