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Japan invaded and took Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai through ruthless bombings.
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Marks the begining of world war II.
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Where Britian beat the Germans in a areail battle and held off invasion.
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Pact that established the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Had the US produce supply the Allied powers with weapons for free.
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Long and destructive siege. Germany was not stopped until 1944.
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Hitler's plan for lightning war. It was short effective and saved lives. Hitler lost when using it in USSR.
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Japan picked the lesser of two evils when choosing to fight the US, as opposed to succumbing to their demands. They did it using suprize and it effectivly knocked out the US navy in the pacific.
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Established during WW2 with 26 nations to fight the Axis powers.
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Made sure germany internal government folled the plan dealing with the jews.
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Due to cracking the coded Japanese plans, the us was able to easily thwart the planned Japanese invasion of this Us base. It was a turning point in the war.
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Known as operation Overlord, British and US forced invaded the french coast, Normandy. They freed north France.
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USA, UK, and USSR discussed the reconstruction of hurt nations.
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Two island that were crutial to the invasion of japan due to proximity.
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Knowing defeate was coming to his already crippled empire he killed himself. Leaving Germany's only choice to surrender.
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Allies overan the Seigfreid line, and beat Germany. They collasped and surrendered on this day.
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Lasted until August 2, designed so UK, USA, and USSR could decide on how to punish Germany.
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The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima, Little Boy on the 6th, and Nagasaki, Fat Man on the 9th.
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Surrender of Japan to the US.
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Speech stating the US would provide militarial and econmic aid to Turkey and Greece to prevent them from going to the Soviets.
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US economic suport to European contries to rebuild their economies and try to prevent the spread of communism.
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Collective defense system of EU an NA.
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Lasting in the 70, had a civil war and followed socialist transformations.
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The US fought North Korea on the 38th parallel to stop the spread of communism.
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Stalin died by a heart attack leaving the Soviet Union in control of many eagar people of his party who briefly attempted to rule.
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Military alliance among communist states. Helped USSR mantain control in East and central Europe.
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This was like the Korean war where the US fought to stop the the North from spreading communism in the south. It was unpopular so the US withdrew and Vietnam turned to communism.
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Soviet satellite ignited space race and grew cold war tensions.
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CIA plan to bomb and invade Cuba to over thow the dictatorship. It was a failed attempt full of mishaps.
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Set up to seperate "Facist" west fro Socialist east. It detered emigration and defection.
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When USSR had nukes in Cuba threatening US, almost became a violent war. Resulted in cuban embargo.
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He was elected by SU's Congress to take a 5 year term of presidency. He tore down the Berlin war.
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This was a peaceful end to the union, where all the regions left the union.
