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The Japanese invade Manchuria after the Mukden incident.
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This battle sparked World War 2. Hitler, determined to regain lost territory and rule Poland, invades Poland on this date.
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Britain successfully defended itself against repeated air raids from Germany.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies when this pact is signed in Berlin.
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Authorized the govermnet to send supplies to any country that Congress felt needed them.
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Hitler knew that Germany could not stand a long, drawn-out war, so he devised a plan to attack and conquer the Soviet Union as quickly as possible.
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German siege of Leningrad lasting 872 days.
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The Japanese, angry at the U.S for restricting export of necessary war supplies to Japan, bombs a U.S. harbor and destroys almost the entire U.S. Pacific fleet.
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At this conference, Nazi officials met to discuss and confrim the deportation of the Jews to Poland to be murdered.
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American codebreakers decoded a Japanese message and prepared a counterattack, allowing the United States to win a crucial battle in WWII.
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One of the largest amphibious military invasions in history, this battle resulted in the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control.
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet to discuss the final defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Americans successfully capture Iwo Jima, an island near Japan, as a naval base.
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Adolf Hitler swallows a cyanide capsule and shoots himself in the head; shortly after, Nazi Germany surrenders.
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Official day of celebration marking Nazi Germany's complete surrender.
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The Potsdam Conference was held to discuss peace terms in Europe,bt no peace treaty was written or signed. Participants include harry truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.
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Japan, unwilling to meet the Allies' demands for complete surrender, was destroyed when the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Japanese cities. These bombings resulted in over 129,000 deaths.
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This day marks the official end of WWII, where Japan formally surrendered aboard the USS Missouri.
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the United Nations is formed to bring together the Allies and later negotiating peace.
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Truman declares the need for immediate economic help for Greece and Turkey.
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Also known as the European Recovery Program, this program successfully kickstarted European economic recovery.
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Members of this treaty agree to defend one another should one of the 28 member countries be attacked.
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Mao Zedong founds and is chariman of the COmmunist Party of China.
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This war started when the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel and attacked the South Korean army. This is the first military action during the Cold War.
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Stalin, ruler of the Soviet Union since the 1920s, dies, and Krushchev begins his rise to power over the apparent heir to the throne, Malenkov.
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This pact was a defense treaty among eight communist European countries during the Cold War.
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Communist-backed North Vietnam fought against anti-communist South Vietnam. The united states backed South Vietnam to prevent a communist takeover of Southern Vietnam.
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The first of a series of 10 man-made satellites, the first to enter space, was launched by the Soviet Union.
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Cuban nationalist Fidel Castro overthrows dictorial president Batista in a battle in Havana.
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East German socialists built a wall to prevent West German fascists from entering East Germany.
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The Soviet Union and the United States entered a standoff when the S.U. placed missiles in Cuba aiming at the U.S. Kennedy agreed to take American missiles out of Turkey and promised not to invade Cuba in exchange for the removal of the Cuban missiles.
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Gorbachev becomes the final ruler of the Soviet Union.
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On this date, the Soviet Union flag flew for the final time after 11 countries left the Soviet Union a few days earlier.
