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Germany invades Poland
Hitler wanted more land, to expand Germany. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Stalin Fails. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
H was the most dominant figure in british politics. -
Germany attacks France
France signs an armistice. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was an air battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain's airspace -
Lend-Lease Act
act where the United States had supported its allies. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
To expand the amount of area available for the invasion of the USSR. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
German forces invaded the Soviet Union -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
It held the majority of the American naval forces. -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations was founded in response to the two World Wars -
Holocaust
Mass murder of Jews in Germany by Hitler. -
Japanese internment camps
American's "concentration camps" for the Japanese. -
Battle of Midway
the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign -
Battle of Stalingrad
battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control -
Guadalcanal
Japanese were surprised by the allied Offense. -
Battle of El Alamein
German General Erwin Rommel tried to attack the Allied defensive positions. -
Tehran Conference
a meeting between Allied leaders to discuss strategy -
D-Day
invasion of Normandy -
Nuremberg Trials
a series of international criminal trials held after WWII -
Yalta Conference
Meeting between the heads of state of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union -
F.D.R.'s Death
Died of a brain hemorrhage -
Mussolini’s assassination
he was hung by his feet and beat to death with his mistress -
Hitler’s suicide
Shot himself. -
Potsdam Conference
a conference where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill made plans for the administration. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Flattened their land and killed civilians. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
plans to launch an attack on Japanese power in the Pacific -
Marshall Plan
The American program to aid Europe.
