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Japan's Invasion China
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. -
Germany invades Poland
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.... -
Battle of Britain
The Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom. -
Tripartite Pact
Agreement signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that formed the Axis power. -
Lend-Lease Act
The transfer of war supplies, including food, machinery, and services, to Allied Power nations. -
Leningrad Blockade
A prolonged military operation undertaken by the German Army Group North against Leningrad—historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
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. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Wannsee Conference
a meeting of senior officials of Nazi Germany, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. "Final Solution" -
Battle of Midway
American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands -
D-day
the day during World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
Formation of the U.N.
An international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries -
Yalta Conference
A meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
2 Battles fought that favored and expanded U.S. in the Pacific / East. -
Hitler’s suicide
Marked the ending of the war. -
Veteran's Day
Veterans Day is an official United States holiday that honors people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces -
Potsdam Conference
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. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Bombing of two important Japanese cities that killed hundred thousands of people, first and second and only two use of atomic bombs in war. -
VJ Day
the day which Japan ceased fighting in World War II and eventually led to their surrender. -
Truman Doctrine
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid Europe -
NATO
An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which consist of North American nations uniting. -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
New form of policy for China, Communist -
Korean War
War / conflicts between the United States and Korea which later divided Korea into North and South -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Stalin was succeeded by a collective leadership after his death in March, USSR -
Vietnam War
(1954-1975) War between the communist North Vietnam, ( bolstered by China ) and anti communist South Vietnam aided by U.S. -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe, opposite of NATO -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth -
Bay of Pigs
, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government -
Berlin Wall
Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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. -
Gorbachev
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. -
Soviet Union falls
Fall of Soviet Union, Now Russia
