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Munich Pact
A settlement allowing Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia's areas along the country's borders mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. -
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
This was a treaty of non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union. The Pact assured a non-involvement of the Soviet Union in a European War, as well as separating Germany and Japan from forming a military alliance, thus allowing Stalin to concentrate on Japan in the battles of Khalkhin Gol. This pact only remained intact till Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. -
Beginning of World War II
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Cash and Carry
This was a policy requested by FDR at a special session of the United States Congress on September 21, 1939. It allowed the sale of materiel to people in war, as long as they arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash. -
Battle of Britain
This was the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom. -
Lend-Lease Act
This was the program under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France, and other Allied nations with material between 1941 and 1945. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended to prevent the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. The battle took place between August 23, 1942 and February 2, 1943 and was marked by constant close-quarters combat and lack of regard for military and civilian casualties. -
D-day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings started on June 6th, 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 am. In planning, the term D-Day was used for the day of the actual landing, which was dependent on final approval. -
Battle of the Bulge
This was a major German offensive launched through the Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II. -
Yalta Conference
This was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United Kingdom represented by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the Soviet Union represented by General Secretary Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
End of World War II
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V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on May 8th, 1945 to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, therefore ending the war in Europe. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces of World War II, which are best known for the prosecution of members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
