• Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Germany teams up with the Soviet Union to try and take over Poland and split the country. France and Britain agree to side with Poland.
  • Stalin Attacks Finland

    Stalin Attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland to try to profit as much as Germany.
  • Germnay Attacks France

    Germnay Attacks France

    On May 10, 1940, Germany began their invasion on France, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
  • Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister of Britain

    During the German invasion, Churchill faced the House of Commons for the first time as Prime Minster.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the country to help out during the war by sending materials like ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, and food and other raw materials.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    The battle that determined if the Luftwaffle (Germany's Airforce) would take over France's ports.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese bombing of an American naval base in Hawaii.
  • Japanes Internment Camps

    Japanes Internment Camps

    Japanese-American were placed into camps by the Japanese and were kept as hostages.
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Mass murder of jews by Adolf Hitller and the Nazi Party.
  • Battle of El-Alamein

    Battle of El-Alamein

    The British attack to make Rommel retreat.
  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    Conference between Allied leaders to discuss the "second front" of Europe.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    The Allied (Britain, Canada, U.S) invasion of western Europe in normandy, France.
  • Yalta Confeerence

    Yalta Confeerence

    Conference between Allied leaders to plan the final defeat of Germany.
  • F.D.R's Death

    F.D.R's Death

    F.D.R (the former president of the united states) died from a massive cerebral hemorrhage while on a visit to Georgia.
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler commits suicide.
  • Potsdam conference

    Potsdam conference

    Peace Conference between the Allied leaders to discuss peace.
  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima

    This was the first of 2 atomic bombs that America dropped on Japan.
  • Bombing of Nagasaki

    Bombing of Nagasaki

    The second of 2 atomic bombs that the Americans dropped on Japan.
  • Formation of U.N.

    Formation of U.N.

    The U.N was made to save future generations from the scourage of war, promote social progress, etc.
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    A war based on propaganda, economy, and politics.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    European Recovery Program.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The U.S. and Britain dropped food and supplies to West Berlin by air.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    A wall to split Comuunist East Berlin and Democratic West Berlin.
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    The Soviet Union put missles in Cuba, almost causing a war between them and the U.S.