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Japan's full scale invasion China (Manchuria) to gain control of Eastern Asia.
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Started WWII, Hilter advances with air and land forces to try and take Poland.
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Was German attempt to obtain British Airways by bombing England. England sustained and it was an important turning point in WWII that did not allow Germany to invade Britain because they lost.
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Germany, Italy, Japan became allies.
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Allowed the United States to send war supplies to foreign nations without getting into the war itself.
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Plan to have a short war with Soviet Union “Lightning war” but failed.
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Germany bombs Leningrad and starves it by blocking transportation routes into the city.
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Japanese fighter planes attack American naval base. United States enter WWII.
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Forming of an international peacekeeping organization.
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Meeting of Nazi officials to figure out what to do with the Jews.
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Japan and United States naval battle. United States won.
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Allies liberated Western Europe from Nazi rule.
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2nd wartime meeting of the Soviet Union, Britain and United States.
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Americans attack Japanese islands.
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He swallowed a Cyanide pill and shot himself in the head.
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Defeat of the Nazis
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Final WWII meeting with Soviet Union, United States, Britain to talk about the terms for the end of World War II.
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First world’s atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the United States to end the war. Japan surrendered.
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Japan’s surrender to the Allies.
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President Truman asks for Turkey and Greece assistance to stall communist domination of two countries. Official declaration of the cold war.
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United States financing Europe’s economic recovery.
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North American Treaty Organization signed. It was a United States treaty against Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Mao Zedong became the head of state
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North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel to invade South Korea.
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Stalin died; Khrushchev begins to rise to power
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War between communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam with the aid of the United States that got into the war in 1954.
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Treaty for mutual defense when a country of the pact becomes attacked. Soviet Union's responce to NATO.
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Soviet initiated Space exploration, World’s first artificial satellite.
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Failed attack to make the communist government of Cuba to fall over.
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Wall built to separate Eastern and Western Berlin. It kept the Eastern people from crossing over to Western Berlin where there were many job opportunities.
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Lasted 13 days, Cuba had Russia’s active nuclear missiles. Ended when United States promised not to invade Cuba for exchange that Russia remove their nuclear missles from Cuba.
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Became the general secretary of the communist party of the soviet union.
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Soviet Union falls because of radical reforms of the president over the span of six years in office.
