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Holocaust
The holocaust was a genocide committed by Nazis of Germany killing 6 million Jews about two thirds of the Jewish population -
Night of the long knives
Was a bloody purge ordered by Adolf Hitler to assassinate hundreds of Nazis who he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland on September first 1939 to wage war which became the blitzkrieg strategy for intense bombing to destroy enemy railroads, -
Stalin attacks Finland
A soviet invasion of Finland three months after the outbreak of ww2 -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
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Germany attacks France
Was the German invasion on France and lower class countries of the war. -
Battle of Britain
the battle of Britain was a campaign of the second world war where the air force defended the u.k. from the German Nazi air force -
Lend-Lease Act
Was an act of united states congress that authorized Franklin Roosevelt to sell or lease military equipment to any country -
Hitler takes over the balkhans
Adolf Hitler gave the order for German forces backed by Axis allies to invade Yugoslavia and Greece. He launched order to secure Germany's Balkan flank for Operation Barbarossa -
german blitzkrieg on soviet union
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union becoming the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
A Japanese air surprise attack on the us naval base in Hawaii at pearl harbor killing 24,000 americans -
Japanese intternment camps
were camps established for Japanese during ww2 by president Roosevelt and U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps -
Battle of Midway
was a naval battle in the pacific theater of World War 2 -
Guadalcanal
An island in the Solomon islands holding a battle and a military campaign for Americans -
Battle of stalingrad
was the largest confrontation of World War II where Germany and its allies fought against Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad -
Battle of El Alamein
A battle of ww2 near the Egyptian railway between North African campaign attacking the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army -
Tehran Conference
A war strategy meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. -
D-Day
the invasion of Normandy in order to liberate mainland Europe. -
Yalta confrence
Was a wartime meeting between the government of united states, U.K., and Soviet Union discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization -
FDR's Death
Franklin D. Roosevelt / 32nd U.S President -
mussolini's assassination
Mussolini death a former deposed Italian fascist dictator happened on the final days of world war 2 in Europe. -
Hitler's suicide
He killed himself by gunshot -
Potsdam Confrence
A conference of allied forces of world war 2 -
atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
America dropped the first deployed atomic bombs over Japanese city's Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing 100,000 thousands people -
macarthur's plan for japan
was an allied occupation of japan at the end of ww2 led by Macarthur -
Formation of U.N.
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization created to maintain national order. -
nuremberg trials
was a series of military trials held by allied forces under international law. -
Marshall plan
Was an American initiative to help Western European forces giving over $13 billion to them -
Berlin Airlift
international crisis that came from an attempt of the Soviet Union trying to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Berlin Wall
A wall or barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and other areas of East Germany -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Was a 13 day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba -
Cold War
A war between united states and the soviet union after ww2 formed through disagreements
