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China began resistance to Japanese influence.
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1.5 million German troops invade Poland.
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German and British air forces began the largest bombing at the time ever Great Britain.
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Germany, Italy, and Japn form the Axis powers.
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Authorized the US to provide military aid during WWII
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The attack on Soviet forces by Germany using Hitler's lightning war tactic
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German forces bombed Leningrad surrounded the city to cut it off from the rest of Russia
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Japanese fighter plans bombed the American naval at Perl Harbor, motivating the US to join the war.
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A metting of senior officials of Nazi Germany in the Berlin suburb
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The US countered Japan's planned ambush of their aircraft carriers, a major turning point in the Pacific campaign
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Allied forces invaded Normany, France and stormed the Germans
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A meeting between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and President Roosevelt near the end of WWII
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A major battle where the US captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. Codename: Operation Iceburg, the largest amphibious battle during WWII.
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Adolph Hitler hid in an air-raid shelter, ate a cyanide capsule and shot himslef with a pistol
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The Allied victory in Europe in 1945
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Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman met in Potsdam Germant to negotiate terms for the end of WWII
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America dropped the world's first atomic bomb wiping out 90% of the city population. Nagasaki was bombed three days later killing about 40,000 people.
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Japan suffered unconditionally to the Allies, ending WWII
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26 nations at war against the Axis powers met to make a united peace
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A speech by President Harry Truman stating the US would provide assistance to all democratic
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US would give economic support to help rebuild European economies after WWII
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed to provide a military alliance against Soviet agression
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Mao Zedong was the father of Communist China and brought a new age to China
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The war between North and South Korea began after North Korea invaded South Korea.
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Joseph Stalin had suffered a ccerebral hemorrhage , came into power shortly after.
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A political and military alliance between Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries
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A series of Soviet artificial satellites; first satellite placed in orbit
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A War between North Vietnam and South Vietnam with the help of the US as communism was spreading
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A failed military invasion of Cuba by CIA-trained Cuban exiles
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A defining symbol of the Cold War seperating East and West Germany, was taken down in 1989
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The Soviet Union and US engaged in a political and military standoff
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The president of Soviet Union
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The Soviet hammer and sickle flag was lowered and soon changed after Gorbachev resigned
