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Germans tried to avoid a long war and tried a lightning fast attack called a Blitzkrieg
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Fight between Japan and China, Germany funded.
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Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. This marks the beginning of the secod world war.
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German's bombed the United Kingdom. Name coined by Churchill
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This pact established the axis powers.
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Roosevelt authorized the lend lease program which basically allowed British and any other contry Roosevelet deemed necessary use of our materials, ports and hangars to help the war.
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The GErman's attemted to block in the city of Leningrad like they did with Stalingrad, but eventually, the soviets broke through the perimeter
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This is a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that led the U.S. to enter WWII
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26 nations pledged to continue fighting the Axis Powers together.
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This is the conference the Nazi leaders decided to exterminate the Jews
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The U.S. defeated an attack by the Japanese navy in the Pacific theater
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THe soviet's and Cuba attempted to build Nuclear missiles in Cuba in an attemt to deter the US from attacking anymore
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The World War II invasion of Normandy, France
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Meeting to discuss final defeat and occupation of NAzi Germany
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American's reclaimed land from Japanese, very bloody and tough battle
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The Allied Powers gathered to decide how to punish Germany
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Hitler committed suicide to avoid death
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The European Axis powers surrendered.
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The U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the second world war.
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The day Japan surrendered and agreed to the Postdam Declaration
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President Truman declared that it was the United States responsibility to help any country threatened by communism
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U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall proposed that European nations should create a plan for their reconstruction and that the United States would help
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The countries that signed agreed to defend eachother
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Mao Zedong declared himself head of the PRC on Oct. 1, 1949
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Stalin's death opened the pathway for Khrushchev to come in and take over.
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Treat signed by Axis powers agreeing to cooperate and help eachother.
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This war was the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies
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Soviet Union launched satellite, first ever satellite.
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The war was between North Korea (communist) and South Korea who was supported by the United Nations
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Failed invastion of Cuba by Brigade 2506, who the CIA supported
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Wall built by the German Democratic Republic to divide East and West Berlin
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Gorbachev was the final leader of the Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union broke apart into fifteen differnet countries
