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The Holocaust
The mass murder of millions of Jews that lasted all the way through 1945 under Hitler's rule. -
The Night of the Long Knives
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. -
Stalin attacks Finland
Known as the Winter war, this was a conflict between The soviet union and Finland and started with an invasion by the soviet union. -
Germany attacks France
Germany invades France by destroying air bases to limit Allied air defenses because the speculation of Britain offering France military support. -
Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister
Winston becomes prime minister of the British empire. -
Battle of Britain
A military campaign when British Air force defended the United Kingdom against attacks by the Nazi army. -
Lend lease Act
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. -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
A a campaign in which Germany sought out to raid Greece and take over the Balkans in spring of 1941 -
German blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
With the code name Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet union in the largest military operation of World War ll. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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. -
Japanese internment camps
The relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans int eh United States, these camps held between 110,00 to 120,000 people. -
Battle of Midway
A naval battle fought between Japan and the United States in the Pacific after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Guadalcanal
A campaign in which American forces fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal located on the Solomon Islands and resulted in an Allied victory. -
Battle of Stalingrad
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 -
The Battle of Alamein
A battle that took place near an Egyptian railroad halt of El Alamein and was an allied victory. -
Tehran Conference
A strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill in order to discuss the issues concerning the fate of eastern Europe. -
D-Day
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. -
Yalta Conference
A second meeting with the allied big three and agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and begin plans for a post-war world. -
FDR dies.
FDR died in Warm Springs Georgia because of Intracerebral hemorrhage -
Mussolini’s assassination
In the final days of the war he was summarily executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in Italy -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his own Bunker by shooting himself in the head. -
Potsdam confrence
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. -
Hiroshima Bombing
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 -
Nagasaki bombing
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. -
Macarthur’s plan for japan
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. -
Formation of The U.N.
An organization put in place to make sure a conflict like this never happens again. -
The Nuremberg trials
This was series of military tribunals held by the allied Allied Forces under international law and laws of war after World War ll. -
Cold War
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 -
Marshall plan
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. -
Berlin Airlift
U.S president Truman ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin because of a Soviet Blockade. -
The Berlin Wall
A Wall constructed by the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic to divide east and west Berlin from people trying to leave. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, and was 13 day conflict to try to see who had the biggest missile.
