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Holocaust
Nazi took Jews into camps to work -
Night of the Long Knives
Nazis carried out a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate Adolf Hitler's absolute hold on power in Germay -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland the Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion -
Stalin attacks Finland
Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland -
Lend-Lease Act
Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II -
Germany attacks France
German went through the Ardennes Forest in southeastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. German tanks and infantry quickly broke through the French defensive lines and advanced to the coast. -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
Churchill becomes Prime Minister -
Battle of Britain
In the fall of 1940 German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Germany sought, by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japaneses bomb american base pearl harbor -
Battle of Stalingrad
largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany -
Japanese internment camps
camps made for Japaneses during ww2 in the untied states -
Battle of Midway
the Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II -
Guadalcanal
World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater -
Battle of El Alamein
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Tehran Conference
the three leaders coordinated their military strategy against Germany and Japan and made a number of important decisions concerning the post World War Il -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France in Normandy -
Yalta Conference
World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union -
F.D.R’s death
FDR dies in warm springs -
Mussolini’s assassination
In the final days of World War II in Europe when he was summarily executed by Italian partisans in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra -
Hitler’s suicide
he and his wife commit suicide -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Potsdam Conference
the Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
marked the end of World War II and the beginning of a long road to recovery for a shattered Japan -
Formation of the U.N.
created after World War II with the aim of preventing another such conflict -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers -
Marshal plan
United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II -
Berlin Airlift
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War -
Berlin Wall
divided Berlin garnered by a concrete barrier -
Cuban Missile Crisis
confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union about nuclear weapons
