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The mass murder of millions of Jews that lasted all the way through 1945 under Hitler's rule.
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Also called operation Hummingbird, this was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany and was the fear the the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, therefore Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organizations leaders to diminish their power.
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Known as the Winter war, this was a conflict between The soviet union and Finland and started with an invasion by the soviet union.
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Germany invades France by destroying air bases to limit Allied air defenses because the speculation of Britain offering France military support.
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Winston becomes prime minister of the British empire.
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A military campaign when British Air force defended the United Kingdom against attacks by the Nazi army.
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Was proposed in late 1940 and passed in March of 1941. This was the principal means for providing U.S military aid to foreign countries during World War II.
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A a campaign in which Germany sought out to raid Greece and take over the Balkans in spring of 1941
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With the code name Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet union in the largest military operation of World War ll.
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The bombing of this American military base by the Japanese Empire was located in the Pacific on the islands of Hawaii and soon after the United States declared war of Japan.
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The relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans int eh United States, these camps held between 110,00 to 120,000 people.
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A naval battle fought between Japan and the United States in the Pacific after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
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A campaign in which American forces fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal located on the Solomon Islands and resulted in an Allied victory.
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The largest confrontation of World War ll by which Germany and its allies fought the soviet union in order to gain control of the city of Stalingrad in Rusiia
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A battle that took place near an Egyptian railroad halt of El Alamein and was an allied victory.
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A strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill in order to discuss the issues concerning the fate of eastern Europe.
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The invasion by the allied forces of Normandy France and code named Operation Overlord. This battle was an unexpected and difficult fight for the Allies.
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A second meeting with the allied big three and agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and begin plans for a post-war world.
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FDR died in Warm Springs Georgia because of Intracerebral hemorrhage
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In the final days of the war he was summarily executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in Italy
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his own Bunker by shooting himself in the head.
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The meeting with Joseph Stalin, new prime minister Clement Attlee and U.S president Harry Truman to negotiate terms of the end of World War ll.
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An atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the United states killed thousands of people and was focused towards ending the war as soon as possible
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This was the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan but this this time on the city of Nagasaki by the United States that made Japan surrender and bring and end to the second world war.
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A date known as V-J day or, victory over japan and was the mark of the end of the second world war, his plan was to supervise the occupation of Japan after WW ll.
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An organization put in place to make sure a conflict like this never happens again.
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This was series of military tribunals held by the allied Allied Forces under international law and laws of war after World War ll.
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The cold war was a state of competition between the U.S and the Soviet Union after WW ll. This war did not involve any fighting but more of political wars and ended in 1991
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A program put in place to aid Western Europe after the war, The U.S gave over $13 Billion which is almost $110 billion in US dollars today in economic assistance to rebuild Western Europe.
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U.S president Truman ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin because of a Soviet Blockade.
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A Wall constructed by the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic to divide east and west Berlin from people trying to leave.
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A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, and was 13 day conflict to try to see who had the biggest missile.
