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Gorbachev
Became delegate to the Communist Party Congress. He was the first presednet of the Soviet Union in 1990. -
Japan’s invasion of China
The Japanese invaded China proper, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War.The Japanese Kwantung Army turned a small incident into a full-scale war. -
Potsdam Conference
The conferees discussed the substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe but did not attempt to write peace treaties. -
Germany invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Battle of Britain
Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force during WW2. -
Tripartite pact
The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. -
Lend-Lease Act
The matarials and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War Il. This event took place under the act of Congress. -
Germany takes Leningrad
Hitler's armies had been in Soviet territory since June. An attempt by the Germans to take Leningrad in August by a massive panzer invasion had failed. Hitler had wanted to decimate the city and hand it over to an ally, Finland, who was attacking Russia from the north. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
The Germans betrayed the Russians and planed an invasion. The battle of Stalingrad is considered by historians as a decisive turning point of World War II, during which German forces were defeated after five months of combat. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
As the japanes were expanding they didnt want the United States to interfere while they were conquring the pacific therefore bombed Pearl Harbor to paralize United states forces in the pacific. -
Wannsee Conference
15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." -
Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. -
D-Day
An invasion by the Allies to overthrow the Nazi's.The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and required extensive planning. Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. -
Marshall Plan
A program of U.S economic aid for the reconstruction of post-World War II Europe. Military assistance to Greece and Turkey was being given. The newly formed United Nations was providing humanitarian assistance. -
Yalta Conference
Conference within the allies to decide what to do after the war and how to prevent any futur wars -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
The United States had turned back the Japanese advance in the Pacific and had re-taken a sweeping arc of islands that surrounded the enemy nation. -
Hitler’s suicide
Holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Germany has lost the war. -
VE Day
The day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. The war had finally been conqured by the allies. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
When Japan did not surrender during WW II United States Dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. When Japan still refused to surrender the dropped another atomic bomb in Nagasaki which by then they finally surndered. -
VJ Day
the day in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War. When Japan formally surrendered. -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership. Mainly to promote peace througout the world. -
Truman Doctrine
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. Demonstrated by the U.S presedent Truman -
NATO
An organization formed in Washington, D.C. comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression. -
Mao Zedong and People’s Republic of China
Mao Zedong officially proclaimed the existence of the People's Republic of China. Leader of the CCP. -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Previously Stalin had controlled over russa. But after Stalins death the Soviet government announces that Nikita Khrushchev has been selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. Khrushchev's selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union—an advance that culminated in Khrushchev being named secretary of the Communist Party -
Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Sputnik
Each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. This was a big step to the race between U.S and U.S.S.R in the space race. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States attempting to prevent the spread of communism. As a result the United States did not accompilish their goal all the way. -
Bay of Pigs
Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S.S.R had placed missels in cuba aimed at U.S.A hopeing to get advantage incase a war broke out during the cold war. And Cuba had allowed for the missiles to be placed in their country. -
Soviet Union falls
The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
