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Japan’s invasion of China
using the exuse that china blew up there rail road system, japan attacked china and conquered Manchuria -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades poland and starts ww2 -
Battle of Britan
was a ww2 aircampain against Britain by German Air Force -
Tripartite pact
the pact bettween Germany, Italy, and Japan -
Lend-Lease Act
a program that supplied France.Great Britain, and all the other allied forces to protect the USA from german forces without having to participate in the war. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
called "lightning war" in german. Germany atempted to blitz Russia but failed and caused a turnning point in the war. -
Leningrad blockade
also known as the seige of Leningrad. Germany laid seige to Leningrad but the population of 3 million refused to surrender and lasted for 900 days -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The united states was surpirsed attacked by Japan and forced the United states into WW2 -
Formation of the U.N.
All 26 nations at war with the Axis power signed a declartion placing their full rescources into taking down the Axis and not to make a seperate peace. -
Wannsee Conference
High ranking Nazi's and german govermant officals gathered to discuss a plan for the "final soloution to the Jewish question." -
Battle of Midway
A important and decisive battle in the pacific. -
D-Day
The largest seaborne invasion in histroy in attempt to free france from german occupation -
Yalta Conference
conference where Us president, British prime minister and the Soviet Premier to disscuss the war and post war. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
this battle was fought bettween Japanese and the United States Marine Corps and lasted until all japanese soldiers were captured or killed -
Hitler's suicide
Adolf and his wife commited sucide. Hitler by gunshot and Eva with cyanide. -
VE Day
Was the day that the Nazis finally surrendred -
Potsdam Conference
Allies met to negotiate terms for the end of WW2 -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
VJ Day
The day that Japan surrendered marking the end of ww2 -
Truman Doctrine
established that the united states would provide assistance to al democratic nations under threat from external or internal forces -
Marshall Plan
Plan where America gave 17 billion $ to aid Europes economies -
NATO
Was created to provide security against communist Russia. -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
The first chairman of China who reformed china into a communist state -
Korean War
Began as a civil war but became international when communist china aided north korea and the UN aided the south -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Stalin died and was succeeded by a group of leaders; Georgi Malenkov, Premier, Lavrentiy Beria, Nikita Khrushchev -
Warsaw Pact
a political and military alliance bettween Soviet Union and many eastern European countries -
Vietnam War
war bettween northern vietnam who was supported by soviet union and the south of vietnam who was supported by the United States -
Sputnik
first satelight made artificaly sent into space -
Bay of Pigs
A failed military invasion led by the CIA-sponsered paramilitary called Brigade 2506 on Cuba to overthrow the cuban communist govermant -
Berlin Wall
was set up to seperate east and west germany apart who kept the communist eastside and the free on the westside. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
a 13 day conforation bettween USA and soviet union over Ballistic missles deployed in Cuba. -
Gorbachev
the last leader of the soviet union and resigned from his position making russia an independent state -
Fall of Soviet Union
the eighth president of the Soviet Union ressigned and left Boris Yeltsin in charge of a new independent Russian state
