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The primary purpose of the occupation was to disarm Japan and to punish the war criminals so that Japan would never again be a menace to the Allied countries. -
U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. -
On that 28th of June 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand. -
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire, commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1917 and concluding in 1922 with the Bolshevik establishment of the Soviet Union at the end of the Civil War. -
The Paris Peace Conference was the formal meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. -
The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals. -
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led a coalition group in an attempt to overthrow the German government. The plotters hoped to march on Berlin to launch a national revolution. But the insurrection failed miserably. -
A plan that concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods. -
A war of aggression which was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937. -
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
The Spanish civil war a military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. -
Mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, on December 13, 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War. -
The Nazis invaded Poland. -
French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany just six weeks after the Nazis launched their invasion of Western Europe. -
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii. -
Strategically, possession of a Guadalcanal air base was important to control of the sea lines of communication between the United States and Australia. -
Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. -
Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II. It was attended by Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, the new American president, Harry S. -
The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
Intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries. -
Created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 and represented a Soviet counterweight to NATO, composed of the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.