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War between Japan and China for control of asian regions such as Machuria and Korea, all started by Mukden Incedent that staged and allowed Japan to attack China.
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The action by Germany that began World War II ; Germany invaded Poland only days after signing the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, and continued attacking sorrounding states....
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The Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom.
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Agreement signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that formed the Axis power.
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The transfer of war supplies, including food, machinery, and services, to Allied Power nations.
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A prolonged military operation undertaken by the German Army Group North against Leningrad—historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg
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Germany attempt to press Russia back, worked for the first 500 miles but due to Russia burn and retreat operation, ended up being a failure.
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A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
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a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. "Final Solution"
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American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
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the day during World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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An international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries
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A meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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2 Battles fought that favored and expanded U.S. in the Pacific / East.
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Marked the ending of the war.
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Veterans Day is an official United States holiday that honors people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces
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The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchilland U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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Bombing of two important Japanese cities that killed hundred thousands of people, first and second and only two use of atomic bombs in war.
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the day which Japan ceased fighting in World War II and eventually led to their surrender.
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the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection
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An American initiative to aid Europe
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An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which consist of North American nations uniting.
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New form of policy for China, Communist
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War / conflicts between the United States and Korea which later divided Korea into North and South
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Stalin was succeeded by a collective leadership after his death in March, USSR
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(1954-1975) War between the communist North Vietnam, ( bolstered by China ) and anti communist South Vietnam aided by U.S.
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A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe, opposite of NATO
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth
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, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government
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Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989
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An international crisis involving nuclear weaponization threats between the U.S. and the USSR. Simply U.S. finding out that the USSR. Were holding stationing nuclear weapons in Cuba.
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Soviet official / secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. Goal was to democratize his country’s political system and decentralize its economy but backfired and led to the downfall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Fall of Soviet Union, Now Russia
