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Union of Austria to Germany orchestrated by
Hitler -
British and French convinced the Czechs to
give up Sudetenland to appease Hitler -
An agreement between Hitler and Stalin to
keep peace between each country -
Hitler invades Britain
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Hitler orders a “lighting war” or constant bombing on
Norway and Belgium -
Hitler breaks the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Soviet
Union to take over their vast natural resources -
A surprise attack on American soil that killed 2,400
people and the reason America entered WWII -
A goal of the US to defeat the Japanese one island at a
time and allowed them to move north. -
FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet and
decided to first fight the war in Europe and then in the
Pacific (Japanese) -
Us invades France to defeat the Germans
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Victory in Europe!
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A code name for the A-bomb. Truman warned Japan
that they should surrender because of the WMD that
the US had. -
Japan refuses to surrender twice and the US drops the A-
bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
A doctrine named after President Truman to contain communism.
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To beat communism and strengthen democracy, the US offered money or aid packages to help countries rebuild.
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Countries pledged to help one another if any one of them were attacked.
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The Soviet’s responded to NATO and formed their own military alliances.