World War II

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    World War II

  • Germany invades poland

    Germany invades poland

    The attack to start the war
  • Stalin attacks Finland

    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

    Germany Attacks France

    the invasion that led France out of the war because they surrendered in 2 days.
  • Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister

    Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister

    Fought for peace throughout Europe and was a big part of ending the war.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Using air warfare, the Germans attacked Britain only after France's quick surrender.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    The americans would help the war effort by sending weapons and materials out to Europe
  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans

    To gain access to a quicker route to invade Russia.
  • German Blitzkrieg of Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg of Soviet Union

    The attack on Soviet Union to have German control all of Europe
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japan launches airstrike on our base in Oahu and sank the U.S.S Arizona.
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    The genocide of Jews, gypsies, and other groups by Hitler and the Germans.
  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps

    to keep all japanese citizens inside the U.S. inder watch
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    The other turning pointin the Pacific war.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    The attempt for Germans to capture the Soviet capital.
  • Guadalcanal

    Guadalcanal

    Represents one of the turning points to end the war in the Pacific
  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

    German and African korps fighting in the desert.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    Stalin, FDR, and Churchill met in Iran to discuss opening a second front in Europe and to invade France.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied forces storm The beaches in France to try and end the war.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • F.D.R's Death

    F.D.R's Death

    Our president died of a stroke.
  • Mussolini's assassination

    Mussolini's assassination

    The killing to get a dictator out of office.
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler's Suicide

    To avoid torture, he killed himself.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    The formation of 50 countries to be protected together to prevent an other war
  • Postdam Conference

    Postdam Conference

    The conference that was held in Berlin suburbs.
  • Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    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

    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

    Nuremburg Trials

    The trials against Germans involved in the Holocaust
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Plan to stop Communism by giving aid to smaller western Europe countries.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    When Soviets blocked the Allies in, the use of airplanes to get goods into Berlin
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    The tension and armsrace of The U.S. and the Soviet Union
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    To divide Germany in half and seperated the German side and the Allied side
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    When Soviets put a missile in Cuba to scare the U.S