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holocaust
The Holocaust was the murder by Nazi Germany of six million Jews. While the Nazi persecution of the Jews began in 1933, the mass murder was committed during World War II. -
Germany invades Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy. This was characterized by extensive bombing early on to destroy the enemy’s air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps, followed by a massive land invasion. -
stalin attacks finland
The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland , three months after the outbreak of World War II. -
lend- lease act
the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Winston Churchill, is the First Lord of the Admiralty, that is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons -
Germany attack France
France commanders had thought that German forces would attack though central Belgium as they had in world war 1, and rushed forces to the France border to meet the German attack. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Adolf Hitler gave the order for German forces - backed by Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian Axis allies - to invade Yugoslavia and Greece. He launched the assault in order to secure Germany's Balkan flank for Operation Barbarossa, his planned spring 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. -
German blitzkrieg on soviet union
Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
bombing of pearl harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941 -
Japanese internment camp
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior -
battle of midway
Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
guadalcanal
Guadalcanal is one of the Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. It’s known for its WWII relics, plus dive sites like palm-fringed Bonegi Beach, with 2 two sunken Japanese wartime vessels. -
battle of el alamein
Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. -
battle of stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Tehran conference
All the leaders in the countries are coming to talk about the problems they have. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Hitler suicide
Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945, -
yalta conference
held from 4 to 11 February, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization -
F.D.R death
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd u.s present . he passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
Mussolini assassination
Benito Mussolini was the deposed Italian fascist dictator. in the final days of World War II in Europe. he was summarily executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy. -
potsdam conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam -
atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki
the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
mcarther's plan for japan
accepting the Japanese surrender on the USS Mississippi on sept 2 1945
the u.s was firmly in control of the japan to oversees his reconstruction and mcarther was was the intern leader of japan. mcarther also staff drafted a new constitution that renounced war and stripped the emperor of his military authority. -
formation of the U.N
an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order. -
nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II. -
cold war
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. -
Marshall plan
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Berlin walls
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis,was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
night of long knives
The Night of the Long Knives, also called Operation Hummingbird was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934,
