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World War II
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Germany invades poland
The attack to start the war -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin is trying to take over all of the little countries around Russia to create a protective buffer zone. -
Germany Attacks France
the invasion that led France out of the war because they surrendered in 2 days. -
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister
Fought for peace throughout Europe and was a big part of ending the war. -
Battle of Britain
Using air warfare, the Germans attacked Britain only after France's quick surrender. -
Lend-Lease Act
The americans would help the war effort by sending weapons and materials out to Europe -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
To gain access to a quicker route to invade Russia. -
German Blitzkrieg of Soviet Union
The attack on Soviet Union to have German control all of Europe -
Pearl Harbor
Japan launches airstrike on our base in Oahu and sank the U.S.S Arizona. -
Holocaust
The genocide of Jews, gypsies, and other groups by Hitler and the Germans. -
Japanese internment camps
to keep all japanese citizens inside the U.S. inder watch -
Battle of Midway
The other turning pointin the Pacific war. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The attempt for Germans to capture the Soviet capital. -
Guadalcanal
Represents one of the turning points to end the war in the Pacific -
Battle of El Alamein
German and African korps fighting in the desert. -
Tehran Conference
Stalin, FDR, and Churchill met in Iran to discuss opening a second front in Europe and to invade France. -
D-Day
Allied forces storm The beaches in France to try and end the war. -
Yalta Conference
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F.D.R's Death
Our president died of a stroke. -
Mussolini's assassination
The killing to get a dictator out of office. -
Hitler's Suicide
To avoid torture, he killed himself. -
Formation of the U.N.
The formation of 50 countries to be protected together to prevent an other war -
Postdam Conference
The conference that was held in Berlin suburbs. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This was the American's final hope to end the war and it worked successfully. -
MacArthur's Plan for Japan
His plan to demilitarize Japan, put war criminals on trial, establish a constitutional monarchy, kept military in Japan. -
Nuremburg Trials
The trials against Germans involved in the Holocaust -
Marshall Plan
Plan to stop Communism by giving aid to smaller western Europe countries. -
Berlin Airlift
When Soviets blocked the Allies in, the use of airplanes to get goods into Berlin -
Cold War
The tension and armsrace of The U.S. and the Soviet Union -
Berlin Wall
To divide Germany in half and seperated the German side and the Allied side -
Cuban Missile Crisis
When Soviets put a missile in Cuba to scare the U.S
