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Was Germany first move towards gaining world domination. It took the germans a few weeks to complete the invasion and make poland fall.
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wants more territory around Leningrad, control of islands in the Gulf of Finland, and control of the Finish port city of Hanko.
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Was Germany's first invasion of a major world power. Took over France in june 1940 not even a month after attcking.
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Was when German air forces went and attacked Britain to get air superiority, but failed miserably.
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Hitler wanted to expand his territory so he could attack Russia easier.
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It was an act that allowed the President to send wepons to others countries. If it would be vital to the safty of the United States.
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Was a battle on Russia by Germany at first Rssia retreted. But the traped German forces in stalingrad and killed them all.
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Was the mass genoside of the jewish people. Millions of people died and the actual death toll is unknown.
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Was the first attack on american soil. Japanese plains bombed a navel base in hawaii killing hundres and destroying thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
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26 nations came to Washington D.C. and signed the Declaration of the United Nations.
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The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war.
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Was the first battle in the pacific. The U.S. fought a hard air-sea battle. The U.S. took the island on 8 Feburary 1943.
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During WWII the united states were worried about spies. So they took all the japanese americans and put them in camps.
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The German forces fought the Russians and took Stalingrad but the Russian forces took it back in a matter of months.
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One of the most pivotel battles in the north african campaign. It lead to the retreat of the Afrika Korps and the German surrender in North Africa.
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Was a meeting between the three major allied powers during the war. The out come of this conference was the allied powers decided their next move for the war.
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Was the battle for Normandy, France. Was the largest amphibious military assault in history.
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Was a meeting between F.D.R., Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. They discussed war strategy and how life after the war would be.
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The prersident that lead us through world war 2. And died before the war was even over.
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With Italy losing the war. The people revolted and aressted him then executed him the next day.
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Hitler realized his imminent demize so he commited suicide.
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Was a meeting between the three major allied powers during the war. it resulted in the Potsdam declaration.
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On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan.While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck again, this time, on Nagasaki.
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Was the only war no shoot was fired it was a arms build up between Russia and the U.S.
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MacArthur and his staff worked to rebuild the country, reform its government, as well as implemented large-scale business and land reforms.
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Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.
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It was a plan for the U.S. to help Europe recover from the war by snding them money.
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Allied aircraft logged the 100,000th flight of the Berlin airlift.
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In October 1951, he became Prime Minister once again. However, Churchill had suffered a stroke in August 1949 that had been kept secret from the public and his health was now a concern.
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The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.
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Was when Cuba threatend the U.S. and the U.S. threatend to invade cuba if they didn't stop.
