World War II

Japan invades China

Jul 7, 1937

After the Marco Polo bridge incident, Japan invades China.

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades polan using blitzkrieg or "lightening war"

Battle of Britain

Jul 10, 1940

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

Tripartite pact

Sep 27, 1940

Axis powers sign a pact on this day

Lend-Lease act

Mar 1, 1941

Plan for United states to aid allies in World War II without actually entering the war.

German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

Jun 1, 1941

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

Sep 1, 1941

germany Bombards, and staves Leningrad, but tepeople stay strong.

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

The empire of Japan bombs American naval base "Pearl Harbor" causing America to enter the war

Formation of the U.N.

Jan 1, 1942

The United Nations is formed with over 50 countries

Wannsee Conference

Jan 20, 1942

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

Battle of Midway

Jun 4, 1942

Aerial American-Japanese war over the pacific

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy France during World War II

Iwo Jima/Okinawa

Feb 1, 1945

Two crucial Islands within striking range of Japan

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

Allied leaders meet in Crimea to discuss the furture of World War II, and post war.

Hitler’s suicide

Apr 30, 1945

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

Potsdam conference

Jul 17, 1945

Allied leaders meet in Germany to discuss what will happen to Germany.

Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

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

Aug 9, 1945

Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

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

NATO

Apr 4, 1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed

Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

Oct 1, 1949

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

Korean War

Jun 25, 1950

North Korea invades South Korea starting the Korean War, which technically has never ended.

Death of Stalin

Mar 5, 1953

Stalin Died from cerebral hemorrhage

Khrushchev rise to power

Mar 20, 1953

Krushchev begins his rise to power after the death of Stalin

Warsaw Pact

May 14, 1955

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

Oct 4, 1957

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

Vietnam War

Apr 30, 1959

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

Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

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

Berlin wall

Aug 13, 1961

Communist East Germany build a wall through Berlin after WWII

Cuban Missle Crisis

Oct 1, 1962

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

Gorbachev

Mar 14, 1990

First Presedent of Soviet Union

Soviet Union falls

Dec 25, 1991

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