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Holocaust
The killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades France because Hitler wants more land. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Most dominant figure in British polictics -
Battle of Britain
Attack on Britain by the Germans -
Germany attacks France
Germany invades France to keep them from expanding and taking over other colonies. -
Lend-Lease act
system where the United States aided its World War II allies with war materials, such as ammunition, tanks, airplanes, and trucks, and with food and other raw materials. -
Stalin attacks Finland
failed to bring finland into is control -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Thought that invading a large area would bring more success and he wanted it to be easier to bring supplies to the USSR -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
blitzkrieg seemed to over power the soviet union. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that caused the U.S. to enter the war -
Japanese internment camps
The US held Japanese-Americans in harmless camps to mainly keep an eye on them in case they were planning to attack. -
Battle of Midway
World War II naval battle, in which the United States destroyed Japan’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
Battle of El Alamein
Then the German and Italian forces were able to destroy most of the British tank force -
Battle of Stalingrad
successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad -
Guadalcanal
land and sea clashes between Allied and Japanese forces -
Tehran Conference
meeting between U.S. President, British Prime Minister, and Soviet Premier in Tehrān during World War II. The chief discussion centred on the opening of a “second front” in western Europe. -
D-Day
attack on germany on a beach during ww2 -
Yalta Conference
Conference during ww2 between the 3 allied leaders to plan the defeat of nazi Germany -
F.D.R's death
Died while posing for a painting in his house in Warm Springs Georgia -
Mussolini's assassination
he was shot and killed towards the end of ww2 -
Hitler's suicide
he shot himself and his wife took poison -
Nuremburg Trials
series of trials held, in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal. -
Potsdam Conference
Allied conference which they discussed substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
Acted as a leader and rebuilt the country and the formation of the democratic government. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Bomb dropped by the US that destroyed most of the city. -
Formation of the U.N.
The United Nations was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership -
Marshall Plan
U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union tried to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin -
cold war
rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. -
Berlin Wall
barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
