World War II and Cold War

  • Gorbachev

    Gorbachev

    President of the Soviet Uniom who tried to democratize his counrty's political system and decentralize its economy which led to the downfall of the soviet Union in 1991.
  • Japan’s invasion of China

    Japan’s invasion of China

    An attack iniated by the Japanese against China occurred near Peiping in NorthChina.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    Nonagression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union which divided eastern Europe into German ans Soviet spheres of influence.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Germany forces invaded Poland on land and from air.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    US aided its world war II allies war supplies.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Britan's successful defense of raids by the German airforce (Luftwaffe) from July to september 1940, after the fall of France.
  • Tripartite pact

    Tripartite pact

    The Trioartite pact included Germany, Italy, and Japan as the Axis powere
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Japanese fighter planes attacked an American naval base called Pearl Harbor near Hawaii
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    Meeting of Nazi officials to plan the "final solution" to the "jewish question".
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    The US destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    The allied invasion of western Europe.
  • Formation of the UN

    Formation of the UN

    26 nations from the Allied powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations, agreeing not to make a seperate peace.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Major World War II conference, that lated from Feb. 4 to Feb. 11 1945, that included the three cheif allied leaders(Freanklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin).
  • Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    US seizure of Iwo Jima for emergency landing strips for Us fighter planes.
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler commits sicide which caused his Reich also collasped.
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    Great Britain and US celebrate Victory in Europe Day
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    an Allied conference of World War II held in Potsdam from July 17, 1945 to August 2.
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    Japan surrendered to the Allies which ended World War II.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Declared immediate economuic and militaric help to the governments of Greece and Turkey.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    (April 1948-December 1951) Program sponsored by the US and designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create a place for democratic institutions.
  • NATO

    NATO

    organization formed in washington, DC that comprised the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Central People's Government, proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.
  • Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    Death of stalin who ruled since 1920's therefore called for the election of Nikita Khrushchev.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    A conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam.
  • Sputnick

    Sputnick

    Series of 10 artificial Earth Satellites which was launched by the Soviet Union and also ingugurated the space age.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    CIA-financed and trained group of refugee lands in Cuba and attempt to topple the communiast gorernment.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to War over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missles in Cuba.
  • Soviet Union Falls

    Soviet Union Falls

    The Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time before it fell.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Treaty establishing a mutuak defense organization composed of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.