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Mao Zedong takes control of the communist party in China.
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Japan attackes China after the Mukden incident and wants to take Manchuria.
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Germany uses its "lighntning" warfare to take over poland.
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Germany bombes Britain continuously with "The Blitz" style.
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The day when the Italy, Japan, and Germany made an alliance as the Axis Powers.
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The US help in the war of supplying and lending military weapons and supplies to Great Britain.
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Germany turns against the Soviet Union and tries to surprise attack them with new tactics.
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Germany invades Leningrad (St. Petersberg) in order to end communist control and become leader.
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Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan with a surprise attack.
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Meeting held between Nazi leaders to discuss the "Final Solution"
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One of the most important naval battles in WW2 against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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The United States and other Allied countries invade French coast to try to retake France.
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Nations form an agreement of peace in the United Nations.
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting between the leaders FDR, Stalin, and Churchill.
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Hitler comits suicide once he realizes his Nazi Germany is being defeated.
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The day the Allies defeated Germany and had a victory in Europe.
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The three main leaders of the allies meet to discuss what will happen after the war.
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The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Japan in an attempt to end conflict.
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Battle warfare where the US used the island hopping style to defeat Japan in the Pacific.
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The day Jaban surrendered to the Allied powers.
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US aid to other countries in Europe to strengthen their economies and stay out of the Soviet sphere of influence.
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The American plan to aid the European countries after WW2.
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A military alliance between all North Atlantic countries.
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Communist Northern Korea and United States aided South Korea fight back and forth over the 38th parallel.
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Communist leader Joseph Stalin dies and Nikita Khrushchev comes to power.
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Soviet Union pact that strengthens military and defense.
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The first Russian satellite to orbit Earth.
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1500 anti-Castro Cubans landed in the Bay of Pigs to create an internal uprising.
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A wall that was constructed to separate East Berlin from West Berlin.
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Cuba scares the US with nuclear threat with the aid of the Soviet Union.
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US enter Vietnam to stop the spread of communism.
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Gorbachev becomes the general secretary of the Communist party.
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The communist world super power, the Soviet Union, falls and ceases to exist.
