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Japan's invasion of China
Japan's invasion of China, specifically Manchuria -
Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong was leader of the Communist Party of China and was chairman of the People's Republic of China. -
Germany invades Poland
The German dictator, Adolf Hitler was very determined to invade and occupy the country Poland. However, if Germany was to invade Poland the allies of Poland, France and Britian would attack the Germans. -
Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britian, which took place during World War II was a series of air raids between Great Britian and Germany after the fall of France. -
Tripartite Pact
This pact was also known as the Berlin Pact. This was an agreement between the nations of Japan, Italy, and Germany. -
Lend-Lease Act
The system in which the United States supplied its allies with war materials such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks along with other materials such as food. This act gave the president the power to aid any nation with materials as he saw fit. -
German Blitzkreig on Soviet Union
German forces invaded the Soviet Union. -
Leningrad Blockade
A prolonged siege of by the Germany Army of Leningrad- mostly known as Saint Petersburg during World War II. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The bombing of Pearl Harbor is one of the most important days ever occured in history. The Japanese made a surprise aerial attack on the American naval base, causing the United States to enter World War II. -
Wansee Conference
A meeting of Nazi officials in the Berlin suburb of Berlin to plan the "final solution" of the issues of the Jews. They planned to round up all the Jews around Europe. -
Battle of Midway
A World War II naval battle mostly fought by aircraft. The United States destroyed most of its naval pilots. This ended the Japanese invasion in the Pacific. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrotation between the United States and the Soviet Union because of the presence of the Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. -
D-Day
The Allied invasion of Normandy in Western Europe. All of northern France was freed which allowed the forces to invade Germany, ending the Nazi rule. -
Yalta Conference
A major conference conducted during WWII between the three chiefs of the Allied Powers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britian, and the Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin at Yalta located in Crimea to discuss the final plan to defeat Nazi Germany. -
Iwo Jima/ Okinawa
The Battle of Iwo Jima/Okinawa was a battle during World War II fought between the Japanese and the United States army. -
Hitler's suicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot. Eva, his wife killed herself with him by taking cyanide. -
VE Day
Victory in Europe day, where Nazi Germany made an unconditional surrender of it armed forces to the Allied Powers. -
Postdam Conference
The Allied conference of World War II was held in Postdam, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. The main participants in this conference included President Harry Truman of the United States, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and the Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States used its revolutionary new weapon, the atomic bomb against the cities f Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan. This bomb either vaporized or slowly killed two hundred thousand people . This date is one of the most important events in history. -
VJ Day
VJ Day marks the end of WWI. It is called "Victory in Japan Day" or "Victory Over Japan Day." -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations was the second multipurpose international organization in the 20th century that was worldwide. It consisted of the 26 nations that were in the war. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was pronounced by the President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. It declared immediate financial aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey. Great Britian could no longer afford to aid these countries anymore after the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The program designed by the United States to help fix the economies of the 17 western and southern European countries in order to create a stable democratic institutions to survive. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization created a counterweight between the Soviet arm forces in central and eastern Europe during World War II. -
Korean War
A conflict between North and South Korea where almost 2.5 million lost their lives. The United Nations joined South Korea, while China aided North Korea. -
Stalin's death; Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin's heath began to decline in 1922 when he suffered from several strokes. After Stalin died in 1953, Khrushchev took over as the premier of the Soviet Union. He also created de-Stalinaztion a process to destroy theimage of Joseph Stalin completely. -
Warsaw Pact
Composed of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The treaty provided a unified military command -
Vietnam War
A conflict between North and South Vietnam and the United States. Was also apart of the much larger conflict of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Sputnik
A launch of 10 artifical satellites by the Soviet Union. Sputnik was the very first satellite launched by man that achieved an Earth orbit. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was an invasion on Cuba by some 1,500 cuban exiles who were opposed of their leader Fidel Castro. The United States financed this invasion. -
Berlin Wall
The barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented any access to Eastern Berlin and other areas of Eastern Germany. -
Gorbachev
A Soviet official and the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and became president in 1990. -
Soviet Union Falls
President Gorbachev resigned and declared his office extinct. He handed over his powers, including nuclear codes to the Russian president Yeltsin.
