World War II

  • Japan invades China

    Japan invades China

    After the Marco Polo bridge incident, Japan invades China.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades polan using blitzkrieg or "lightening war"
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Germany starts Air raids on Britain and looses far more aircraft and men than Britain in the end.
  • Tripartite pact

    Tripartite pact

    Axis powers sign a pact on this day
  • Lend-Lease act

    Lend-Lease act

    Plan for United states to aid allies in World War II without actually entering the war.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    After Germany used Blitzkrieg warfare successfully on Poland, Denmark and othe nations, when Germany invaded the USSR, they sufered many casualties from the cold,
  • Germany takes Leningrad

    Germany takes Leningrad

    germany Bombards, and staves Leningrad, but tepeople stay strong.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    The empire of Japan bombs American naval base "Pearl Harbor" causing America to enter the war
  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

    The United Nations is formed with over 50 countries
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    Plan for the termination of the Jewish race throughout Europe by Nazi high-ups.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Aerial American-Japanese war over the pacific
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy France during World War II
  • Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Two crucial Islands within striking range of Japan
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Allied leaders meet in Crimea to discuss the furture of World War II, and post war.
  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

    Seeing Nazi defeat, Hitler commites suicide in an underground bunker.
  • Potsdam conference

    Potsdam conference

    Allied leaders meet in Germany to discuss what will happen to Germany.
  • Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    In order to prevent the loss of Allied troops lives, the United States drops the first of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima.
  • Atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki

    Atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    The United states would aid Democratic Nations under threat from authoritarian forces.
  • NATO

    NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed
  • Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao Zedong rises as communist leader of China after civil war.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    North Korea invades South Korea starting the Korean War, which technically has never ended.
  • Death of Stalin

    Death of Stalin

    Stalin Died from cerebral hemorrhage
  • Khrushchev rise to power

    Khrushchev rise to power

    Krushchev begins his rise to power after the death of Stalin
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Agreement by Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations to form a single military, and come to the defence of anyother nation i the pact.
  • Sputnik Launched

    Sputnik Launched

    The first man made satellite put into Earth's atmosphere is launched by the USSR
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    War between North and South Vietnam, United States interviened, but withdrew with unpopularity at home.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    CIA attempt to overthrow Fidel castro's communist Government in Cuba
  • Berlin wall

    Berlin wall

    Communist East Germany build a wall through Berlin after WWII
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    Soviet Nuclear warheads in Cuba, closest the world has ever come to nuclear war.
  • Gorbachev

    Gorbachev

    First Presedent of Soviet Union
  • Soviet Union falls

    Soviet Union falls

    All Soviet Republics besides Georgia agree to dissolve into individual countries, and collapse Soviet Union.