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Invaded China spurring the Second Sino-Jap War
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Betrayed non aggression pact and invaded Poland
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The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF (Britain's Air Force)
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Pact that established the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan)
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Authorized president to transfer arms to other countries
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Lightning war - designed to disoraganize enemy forces through mobility and localy concentrated firepower
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The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (later Truman) met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II
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German bombers blast through Leningrad's antiaircraft defenses, and kill more than 1,000 Russians
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Jap kamakazi bombers attacked naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii
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Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations
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High ranking Nazi party officials gathered to discuss how to eliminate Jews
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Decisive battle of war in Pacific, sank 4 of the Japanese carriers
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156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along the heavily fortified coasts of Normandy
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Big three made decisions on progression of the war
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Turned back the Japanese in the Pacific and had re-took a groupp of islands that surrounded the enemy nation
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Committed suicide along with his wife and "beloved" dog and her pups
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Crossed the Rhine after going through the strongly fortified Siegfried Line and overran West Germany
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B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the two cities, killed approx 80,000 in Hiroshima alone
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Japan surrendured unconditionally to the Allies
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Truman asked Congress to support the Greek Government against the Communists
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European Recovery Plan, Shared with the world on 5 Jun 1947, provided aid to European countires on the brink
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization - military alliance between most North American and European countries
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People's Republic of China was proclaimed on this date by Mao
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Start date of war in Korea between northern communists supported by China and Soviets and southerners in support of a democratic republic
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Stalin dies, Khrushchev begins his rise in Communist party
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Political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries
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(Second Indochina War) struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government, US involvment was met with lots of home opposition, ended 1975... iconic photo is of Trang Bang after Napalm Attack
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World's first artificial satellite
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Cuban exiles launched failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba
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For thirteen days the world waited, on the verge of a nuclear war with the Soviets (October Crisis), US had naval blockade on Cuba, JFK was president
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Built in 1961 to cut off West Berlin (Allied controlled) from surrounding East Germany and East Berlin (Axis controlled). Demolished in 1989 after Reagan instructed Gorbachev to "tear down this wall"
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Seventh and last undisputed leader of the Soviet Union
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Split into 26 different countries as the world watched in amazment. Coup in Red Square.
