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Deadliest genocide by the Germans in the history. About 5-6 million people died.
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Germany attacks Poland both on land and on air. Hitler was tacking back the land that was once lost by the Germans. WWII had begun.
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Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid that steeled the Finns for resistance, not capitulation.
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Germany begins to invade France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as a new Great Britain prime minister.
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Germany begins to attack Britain for a long lasting bombing.
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Hitler attacked the Balkans to gain more in order to get closer to USSR, so that he can easily attack them.
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Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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The Germans tried to attack the Soviet Union but they failed, like always. They tried to attack them in the winter.
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The Japanese surprisingly attacked the U.S.. They destroyed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It is the day that we'll never forget.
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26 nations sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
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Oe of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II, and of course US wins.
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Te U.S. 1st Marine Division begins Operation Watchtower, the first U.S. offensive of the war, by landing on Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Island.
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Lasted until November 4, 1942. Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the North African campaign between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army commanded in the field by Erwin Rommel in World War II.
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Hitler attacked the great city Stlingrad, killing more than 40,000 innocent civilians. ;(
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Stalin, FDR, and Churchill met in Tehran, Iran to discuss about D-day.
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The day that the Allies defeated the Germans.
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The American Federal Government was concerned about the bombing Pearl Harbor and they decided that all ancestry Japanese people living in the US would be sent to the Wesr Coast. The ancestry Japananese people would have to live in camps.
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The Allied leaders came to Yalta after the victory to decide which country will get what territory.
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Franklin D. Rossevelt died from polio in Warm Springs, GA.
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Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
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Hitler kills himself by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
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The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman--met in Potsdam, Germany. They continued the discussions they had at Yalta.
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The American B-29 bomber dropped the world's largest first atomic bomb over the Japanese city Hiroshima.
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Trials of Nazis, conducted by a U.S., French, and Soviet military tribunal based in Nuremberg, Germany, begins. Twenty-four former Nazi officials were tried, and when it was all over, one year later, half would be sentenced to death by hanging.
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Douglas MacArthur became Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan, and was in charge of its ruling.
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U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs into law the Foreign Assistance Act, commonly known as the Marshall Plan.
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U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade.
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The purpose of the wall was to keep the East Germany entering West Germnay.
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
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The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The Cold War was to dominate international affairs for decades.
