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Holocaust
Deadliest genocide by the Germans in the history. About 5-6 million people died. -
Germany Invades Poland
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. -
Stalin Attacks Finland
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. -
Germany Attacks France
Germany begins to invade France, the Netherlands and Belgium. -
Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister of Britain
Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as a new Great Britain prime minister. -
Battle of Britain
Germany begins to attack Britain for a long lasting bombing. -
Hitler Takes Over the Balkans
Hitler attacked the Balkans to gain more in order to get closer to USSR, so that he can easily attack them. -
Lend-Lease Act
Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
The Germans tried to attack the Soviet Union but they failed, like always. They tried to attack them in the winter. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The Japanese surprisingly attacked the U.S.. They destroyed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It is the day that we'll never forget. -
Formation of the U.N.
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. -
Battle of Midway
Oe of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II, and of course US wins. -
Guadalcanal
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. -
Battle of El Alamein
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. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler attacked the great city Stlingrad, killing more than 40,000 innocent civilians. ;( -
Tehran Conference
Stalin, FDR, and Churchill met in Tehran, Iran to discuss about D-day. -
D-Day
The day that the Allies defeated the Germans. -
Japanese Internment Camps
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. -
Yalta Conference
The Allied leaders came to Yalta after the victory to decide which country will get what territory. -
FDR's Death
Franklin D. Rossevelt died from polio in Warm Springs, GA. -
Mussolini’s Assassination
Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. -
Hitler’s Suicide
Hitler kills himself by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. -
Potsdam Conference
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. -
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The American B-29 bomber dropped the world's largest first atomic bomb over the Japanese city Hiroshima. -
Nuremburg Trials
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. -
MacArthur's Plan for Japan
Douglas MacArthur became Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan, and was in charge of its ruling. -
Marshall Plan
U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs into law the Foreign Assistance Act, commonly known as the Marshall Plan. -
Berlin Airlift
U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. -
Berlin Wall
The purpose of the wall was to keep the East Germany entering West Germnay. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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. -
Cold War
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.
