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World War II

  • Japan's Invasion of China

    Japan's Invasion of China

    After the Mukden Incident, which was a pre-planned Japanese attack on themselves which they blamed on China, Japan invades Manchuria.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland which starts WWII
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    German attack on Britain that consisted of mostly air raids and bombings.
  • Tripartite Pact

    Tripartite Pact

    Agreement between Germany, Italy, & Japan that formed the Axis Powers.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    The Lend-Lease Act allowed the US to send arms, defense materials, and money to other countries during the war.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    Germany breaks their non-agression pact with Russia and invades Russia.
  • Leningrad blockade

    Leningrad blockade

    German troops isolated The Siege of Leningrad and the people lived in tragity and suffered in cold and hunger
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Japan bombs the US naval base.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    German conference that was called to determine the punishment for the Jewish population during WWII.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Japan never recovered from this bevause it weakened Japans naval strength
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    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/Okinawa

    Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Fought between in Japanese and theUS known as the " Operation Detachment"
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler the dictator of Germany killed himself by gunshot
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    the victory in Europe when crowd hears over WWII
  • Postdam Conference

    Postdam Conference

    Churchill, Truman,Roosevelt and Stalin meet in Postdam Germany to talk about the endding of WWII
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    Made to have international co-operation
  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The US dropped the first atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities to the end WWII in the Pacific.
  • truman doctrine

    truman doctrine

    Truman says that US would provide political, military, and economical help to all democtratic nations
  • Marshalls Plan

    Marshalls Plan

    what a recovery plan for Eurpoe
  • NATO

    NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organizatio military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
  • Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao proclaims the people of china a new group of name the Peoples REpublic of China and falls under communism
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea and the UN made US fight with the south and Chin afought with the north
  • Stalin 's Death

    Stalin 's Death

    Stalin died from a heart attack
  • warsaw pact

    warsaw pact

    collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    North vietnam was communist and was trying to invade south vietnam
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    was the first satellite from earth that was sent from Soviet Union
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    Invasion of Cuba by the U.S government that failed to happen
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 days of dangerous watchibng the US and SSR almost have a nuclear war
  • Gorbachev

    Gorbachev

    8th and last leader of the Soviet Union serving for the communust party
  • Soviet Union falls

    Soviet Union falls

    SSR separated into 15 different countries