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A guarded concrete wall including controled checkpoints. It was build by east Germany.
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the Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops
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Nazi Germany invades Germnay and wins within weeks.
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series of aerial combats that took place between British and German aircraft
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a pact signed in Berlin, Germany which established the Axis Powers of World War II
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the material and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under the Act of Congress, the Lend- Lease Act
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Germans first "lightning war" attack on soviet Union, which seemed to work but in May 1945, the Soviet Union defeated Germany.
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Germany set up a blockade aroudn the entire city on Leningrad, and did not allow any goods to move in or out of the city. Germany was starving the people of Leningrad.
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surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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a meeting of the senior officals of Nazi Germany
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A naval and air battle fought in World War II in when planes from American aircraft carriers attacked the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean
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The day of World War II on which the Allied forces invaded nothern France by beach landings
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A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin to plan the final stages of World War II
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was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima
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Hitler took his own life by shooting himselfing and taking cyanide
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The day of the Allied forces victory in Europe
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a conference Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended
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An American bomber dropped the first deployed Atomic bomb on Hiroshima destorying 90% of the city. Three days later an American bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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day on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II
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The purpose is to bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and development
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The American initiative to aid Europe in order to help rebuild the economy
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an international relations policy, by Harry Truman, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet Union
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organizationis a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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Mao Zedong led the Long March and proclaimed the People's Republic of China
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The war fought between the United Nations and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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After Stalin's mysterious death, later discovered to be by natural causes, many people that were beneath him when he was ruling, attmepted to rise but were never successful.
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A military alliances of communist nations in Eastern Europe
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each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites
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a conflict between South Vietnam and North Vietnam.
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The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba
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The closes approach to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Gorbachev takes control of the Soviet Union
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union sepreated Russia into 15 seperate countries and ended the Cold War.
