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Holocaust
The genocide of Jews and other groups by the Nazi group, including the Chancellor, Hitler. -
Hitler Invades Poland
Known as the Forth Partitian of Poland, Hitlers invasion gave the spark that started World War II. -
Stalin Attacks Poland
Stalin and the Red Army cross the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircrafts. Finland was not prepared and lost many lives. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Neville Chamberlain resigns from the office, and Churchill accedes to the office, becoming defense minister also. -
Germany Attacks France
When Hitler ivaded France it was also known as the Fall of France. It was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries defeating primarily French forces. German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes to cut off and surround the Allied units that had advanced into Belgium. -
Battle of Britain
This was a battle between both Germany and British, where they had a series of fights by thier air forces over Britain. Britain in the end did win. This battle also showed the Allies that Hitler's attacks could be stopped. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitlers intrest in taking over the Balkans was to deprive the Allies of oil as this area is enriched with many oil fields. The battle of Kosovo is known from this takeover. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
German forces invade the Soviet Union and drive them back over 600 miles. -
Lend-Lease Act
An arrangement for the transfer of war supplies, including food, machinery, and services, to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the United States in World War II. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack was conducted as an atempt to prevent the USA from attacking Japan when the Japanese went to invade Southeast Asia. -
Formation of the U.N.
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill developed The Declaration of the United Nations. The Declaration was an accord between all nations fighting against the Axis Powers. -
Japanese internment camps
Forced relocation of Japanese Americand in the U.S. during World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
A pitched battle in World War II resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel during the Africa Campaign resulting in Rommel's retreat. -
Guadalcanal
The battle of Guadalcanal was a series of land and sea attacks around the Guadalcanal. -
Battle of Stalingrad
When the German army surrounded Stalingrad and around December the Soviet Union launched a counter attack upon the German army, capturing and destroying them. -
Tehran Conference
Meeting of the heads of the Allied leaders which consisted of Stalin, F.D.R., and Churchhill. The main focus of this conference was the discussion of openning a second front in western Europe. -
D-Day
The landings were lauched upon the coast of Normandy; an assault landing of 24,000 British, American, Canadian and French airborne troops on the coast of France. -
Yalta Conference
Conference where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe. -
FDR's death
He had advanced arteriosclerosis for over a year at the point of his death, during which he was sitting for a portrait at his home in Little Springs dubbed "The Little White House." -
Mussolini’s assassination
Attepmting to escape Italy during the last few days of war, he was caught and hung by communist partisans in Milan and hung upside down on meathooks from the roof of a gas station. -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler commits suicide knowing that he has lost the war to the allied forces. -
Battle of Midway
A naval battle of World War II where American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands. -
Potsdam Conference
A conference where Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchhill, and Joseph Stalin discussed and clarified the procedures of the peace settlements in Europe after World War II. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
McArthur oversaw the rebuilding of the country and the formation of a democratic government in Japan, and helped to draft a new constitution after World War II. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
US drops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August 1945. Around 40% of the residents in Hiroshima die within five years due to this. -
Nuremburg Trials
A series of trials held in Germany in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal. -
Marshall Plan
A project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II.
