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Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitle made Czechoslovakia hand over the German speaking Sudetenland. -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and rule in Poland by bombarding into Poland by air and land. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Was also known as "Lightning War." Used for the invasion of Belgium, The Netherlands, and France. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin was concerned about the soviet union being attacked from the west. So he attacked. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was an attempt to gain superiority by the German air force's over the RAF. -
Germany attacks France
Germany attacked going through Ardennes Forest in Belgium and northern Luxenbourg. The Germans broke the French deffence with tanks and advanced to the coast. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Churchhill was known for his leadership ability and was appointed to become the Prime Minster. -
Lend-Lease Act
An act to promote the defense on the United States. -
Bombing on Pearl Harbor
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Holocaust
The killing of six million Jews and few others, by the Natzi party. They were led by Hilter. -
Japanese internment camps
Roosevelt signed an executive order to remove the Japenese decendents living in America to be taken out of their house and put into Japanese internment camps. -
Battle of Midway
It was fought almost entirely with aircraft. The United States destroyed Japan. This was apart of ending the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific. -
Guadalcanal
This was one of the clashes between Japan and the Allied powers, by land and sea. -
Battle of Stalingrad
It was one of the greatest battles of the war. It helped put an end to the German advance in the Soviet Union and was a turning point in war. -
Battle of El Alamein
The El Alamein was the last stand for the Allies in North America -
Tehran Conference
Allied leaders met to plan D-Day. -
D-Day
US Army invades Normandy, France by sea and air. -
Yalta Conference
The three chief Allied leadres met to plan the final defeat and occupation in in Natzi Germany. -
FDR's death
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of the United States and he died in Warm Springs Georgia. -
Mussolini’s assassination
He was headed to the mopuntains and was discovered and he was shot and killed. -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler kidded himself in Berlin after the Holocaust, when people began to learn what he had done. -
Potsdam Conference
This is where substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe were discussed but the did not attempt ti write a peace treaty. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The United States of America bomb Japan becasue America wanted to put an end to the war. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
He became supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan. Under his guidance, Japan recovered from the war. -
Cold War
It was a restricted rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda. -
Nuremburg Trials
Former Nazi memebers were tried as war criminals because of their association in killing Jews. -
Formation of the U.N.
The official languages were Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. Many countries were in the United Nations. It was worldwide in membership, like the League of Nations. -
Marshall Plan
This was when the US sponsered a program designed to help recover 17 European countries. -
Berlin Airlift
Allied Powers chose to unite their occupation zones in Germany.The Soviets began a blockade on Germany. -
Berlin Wall
Surrounded West Berlin and did not allow access to East Berlin. 2.5 million East Germans fled to the west which caused severe economic troubles. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was a major confrontation that assembled the U.S. and the Soviet Union close to war.
