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The mass destruction of millions of Jews and other groups during WWII.
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Germany lays seige on Poland. They cut off all their recources, making Poland weak. Eventually the German army took over.
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The Soviet Union invades Finland.
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The German forces attacked countries around Framce to distract the Allies from protecting France. He slipped through the Allie forces and took over Paris on June 14.
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Led his country to victory in WW2.
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The Germans lead an air and land attack on Soviet countries.
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The German Air Force continued to bomb Britain over and over again. Britain stood its ground and defeated the German arny. This was the first defeat of the German powers.
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Hitler too over the Balkans to show his power to Britain.
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The agreement in which the U.S. supplied the Allied groups in Europe with supplies, ammunition, food, etc.
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The Japanese planned a surprise attack on the U.S. Naval base Peal Harbor. This day is know as the "day that will live in infamy."
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Roosevelt approved the internment camps. Japanese internment camps were camps in which any Japanese were held in fear of them being associated with the Japanese attacks.
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McArthur wanted to use the stragedy "island hopping." This meant taking one island at a time until all are taken over.
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Aircraft battle between the Japanese and United States. The U.S. destroyed some of the best planes.
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The turn around point of the war. The first battle that stopped the Germans from taking the Soviet Union.
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Battle between the Allied and the Japanese. The Japanese constructed an arifield on Guadalcanal island. The Allied forces came in and tried to destroy it.
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Churchill attacks Montgomery, clearing German minefields.
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The leaders debated on whether or not to open a second front in Germany.
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The first day of the fight on Normandy beach. It was one of the bloodiest fights in France.
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The 3 Allied leaders got together and planned the final defeat of Germany.
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F.D.R. suffered from arteriosclerosis. His health was slowly declining during his last term. He one day had a cerebral hemorrhage and died that day.
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Mussolini was shot and then hung upside down after being warned to leave.
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Hitler was sick and eventually gave up and shot himself in his chamber.
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A quiet rivalry between the Soviet Union and United States. There were nuclrear scares for both countries.
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An attempt to make peace settlement in Europe. truemen, Churchill, and Stalin were present.
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The U.S. scientist worked to create a bomb so powerful it could stop the Japanese. Two atomic boms were set of in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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A group that set out to help make peace within all the countries.
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A time in which Nazi leaders were tried for their crimes against humanity, peace, and war.
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A program used to help the economy recover in European countries.
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Operation in which the U.S. dropped supplies to the people of Berlin during a seige so they would not starve and give in to communism.
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Barrier between West Berlin and East Berlin. A symbolic seperation between communism and democracy.
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The Soviet Union put atomic missles in Cuba. They were facing Washington D.C. Eventually the U.S. got them to get rid of the missles.
