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After the Marco Polo bridge incident, Japan invades China.
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Germany invades polan using blitzkrieg or "lightening war"
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Germany starts Air raids on Britain and looses far more aircraft and men than Britain in the end.
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Axis powers sign a pact on this day
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Plan for United states to aid allies in World War II without actually entering the war.
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After Germany used Blitzkrieg warfare successfully on Poland, Denmark and othe nations, when Germany invaded the USSR, they sufered many casualties from the cold,
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germany Bombards, and staves Leningrad, but tepeople stay strong.
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The empire of Japan bombs American naval base "Pearl Harbor" causing America to enter the war
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The United Nations is formed with over 50 countries
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Plan for the termination of the Jewish race throughout Europe by Nazi high-ups.
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Aerial American-Japanese war over the pacific
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Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy France during World War II
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Two crucial Islands within striking range of Japan
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Allied leaders meet in Crimea to discuss the furture of World War II, and post war.
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Seeing Nazi defeat, Hitler commites suicide in an underground bunker.
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Allied leaders meet in Germany to discuss what will happen to Germany.
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In order to prevent the loss of Allied troops lives, the United States drops the first of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima.
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The United states would aid Democratic Nations under threat from authoritarian forces.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed
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Mao Zedong rises as communist leader of China after civil war.
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North Korea invades South Korea starting the Korean War, which technically has never ended.
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Stalin Died from cerebral hemorrhage
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Krushchev begins his rise to power after the death of Stalin
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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.
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The first man made satellite put into Earth's atmosphere is launched by the USSR
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War between North and South Vietnam, United States interviened, but withdrew with unpopularity at home.
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CIA attempt to overthrow Fidel castro's communist Government in Cuba
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Communist East Germany build a wall through Berlin after WWII
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Soviet Nuclear warheads in Cuba, closest the world has ever come to nuclear war.
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First Presedent of Soviet Union
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All Soviet Republics besides Georgia agree to dissolve into individual countries, and collapse Soviet Union.