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Japan’s invasion of China
Another name for it is the Second Sino-Japanese war it is one of the underliying causes of war. It was because of this Japan withdrew from the united nation. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany annexes western half of Poland while Soviet Union takes over the eastern half.Great Britain and France Declare war on germany because of this invasion. -
Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain during World War II were dangerous air raids the germany conducted on Great Britain. It started out as an attempt to drive the Royal Air Force (RAF) out of the skies and destroy it all the way by boambing factories on the Island. The changed it into hurting the civilians by boambing cities. -
Tripartite pact
It was an agreement in between Japan, Italy and Germany signed by Adolf Hitler, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu. -
Lend-Lease Act
It was a way in which the US gave britain all they needed and in return they will help or give Us back something in some way or another. -
Leningrad blockade
It was around a 900 day siege of Leningrad (St.Petersburg) in which German went aginst there word to the Soviet Union.The Germans blocked off the entire city and starved many people. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
It is considered by historians a turning point of World War II, in which German forces were defeated after five months. Another word for it is Lightning war. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise plane attack on a U.S navel base led on by Japan. It was an attempt to weaken the U.S. before they entered the war. -
Wannsee Conference
Meeting of Nazi offcials to decide what to do with the Jews. -
Battle of Midway
A World War II naval battle, fought with aircraft in between Japan and USA. -
D-Day
Allies invaded Normandy, in northwestern France.It was a slow march all the way to Germany to defeat Adolf Hitler. -
Yalta Confrence
A confrence held at Yalta between th allies to decide how to defeat Germany and divide it amongst the 3 allies. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Located near Japan, they were major military and political targets. Their capture would bring the city of Tokyo within range of American B-29 bombers. -
Hitler’s suicide
dictator of Germany Adolf Hitler , burrowed away in an air-raid shelter,and shoots himself with a pistol. -
VE Day
Celebrated in Europe to mark the german unconditional surrender. -
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference was the last meeting held by Britain, U.S.A, and Soviet Union. They discussed peace treaties. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Atomic bomb is a very powerful weapon which was created by the US and later dropped on Japan to end WWII. The first one dropped on Hiroshima on August 6,1945 and the next one on Nagasaki on August 9,1945.Leading to Japan surrendering. -
Formation of the U.N.
It was created after WWII to creat connections and increase coperation amoung all the nations of the world. -
Truman Doctrine
It was a declaration made by President Harry S. Trumen to send econommic a military aid to Greece. -
VJ Day
A formal surrender day in Japan.It was the offcial end of WWII. -
Marshall Plan
A program desigined by the US to better the economy of 17 countries. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), military alliance which created a equal to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Becomeing head of state,leader of China Mao Zedong proclaimed the existence of the People’s Republic of China; -
Korean War
Conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic North Korea and the Republic South Korea.North Korea got help from the Soviet Union and invaded South. The United Nations and United States joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and China came to help North Korea.. -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
First secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union whose policy of de-Stalinization had outcome throughout the communist world. -
Warsaw Pact
A treaty establishing a defense organization made up of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland,and Romania. The treaty provided unified military. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam War wa also knowen as the second Indochina war it was North Comunist aginst South Democratic.There was a bigger picture to this Cold War leading Communist Soviet Union to support communist North Vietnam and Democratic US support Democratic South. -
Sputnik
This is the start of Arms race in between the Soviet Union and United States. -
Bay of Pigs
Itwas anabortive invasion of Cuba on the southwestern.The invasion was directed by the U.S. government -
Berlin Wall
A barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin.So people from the Soviet (east) Berlin don't escape into free (west) Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Major confrontation over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba United States and the Soviet Union were close to war -
Gorbachev
A Soviet Union official, the general secretary of the Communist Party (1985 to 1991) and president (1990–1991). -
Soviet Union Falls
Soviet Unioin fell Apart into 15 different countries(Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan ).
