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Japan's invasion of China
the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland -
The Battle of Britain
was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940 -
The Tripartite pact
the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin. -
Lend Lease Act
he Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Hitler tried to invade Russia and at first he was winning, however he was not prepared for Winter which was when Russia took over the victory -
Siege of Leningrad
Akso known as the 900 day siege, German's tried to take Leningrad but before they could the Red Army egan to push them back -
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. -
The Formation of the United Nations
representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
The Wannsee Conference
14 military and goverment officals had a conference to discuss and set up the regulations of the "final solution" which was the extermination of all the Jews in Europe. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway shattered Japan's naval strength when the US navy destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. American codebreakers broke a code from the Japanese that said the location and date of their attack -
D Day
D-Day started the Battle of Normandy and ended with Allied liberation of Europe -
The Yalta conference
At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. -
Iwo Jima
Americans invaded Iwo Jima to obtain a naval base near Japan. They defeated the Japanses Forces within a month -
Okinawa
This was the last and biggest Pacific Battle fought by the US -
Hitler's Suicide
Hitler ingested a cyanide capsule then shot himself with a Pistol to avoid Russian Capture -
The Vietnam War
The US participated in the war because of the Domino Theory which stated that the gorwth of one communist state would trigger others to follow -
VE Day
The unconditional surrender of Germany was signed at Rheims on May 7 and ratified at Berlin on May 8. -
Potsdam Conference
Present Harry Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met up to discuss the administration of Germany. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
Bombing of Nagasaki
A bomb was dropped on Nagasaki -
VJ Day
Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan generated a resurgence of European industrialization and brought extensive investment into the region -
NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
Mao Zedong and the People's Republic of China
Naming himself head of state, communist revolutionary Mao Zedong officially proclaims the existence of the People's Republic of China.The proclamation was the climax of years of battle between Mao's communist forces and the regime of Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek, who had been supported with money and arms from the American government. -
The Korean War
North Korean's traveled arcorss Parallel 38 into South Korea. This first started as a military action in the Cold War. At the end of the War Two new states were formed: North Korea and South Korea. -
Stalin's Death/Khrushchev
73 years of age, had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at 9:50 p.m. on March 5, 1953.Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Truman Doctrine
established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Sputnik
Russia obtained the lead in the space race when they launched the first satallite into Space. -
Bay of Pigs
a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure. -
The Berlin Wall
barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. It was created to stop East Berlins from Traveling to West Berlin -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict -
Gorbachev
He was a former Soviet Leader who democratized his country’s political system and decentralized its economy which led to the downfall of communism and the break up of the Soviet Union -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR.
