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Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII.
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Also known as the SIno-Japanesse War, Japan invaded China in an effort to overthrow the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek. (1937-1945)
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Germany's attempt to win air superiority over the UK.
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A signing of the Axis Powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan, agreeing to stick together.
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A declaration was signed, agrreing to keep peace after war.
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The US sent military aid to help other countries during WWII.
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Translating to lightning war, this was a tactic used by Germany to avoid long war by quick surrender; however, it was failed against the Soviet Union
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Lasted for 900 days, the Siege of Leningrad was a hard period of time whene the town's civilians went through food rasions and heatless winters.
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Japanese air forces dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This caused America to join the war, already two year deep.
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A meeting attended by Nazis to discuss the fate of the Jews.
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Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan and demolished their naval strength.
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During the Battle at Iwo Jima, American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima.
1/4/45-The Battle at Okinawa was the biggest invasian in the Pacific Ocean by the US through a 82 day campaign on Japan. -
Hitler failed in his attempt to commit suicide by drinking poison, then shot himself in his bunker.
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Germany surrendered to the Allies (Soviet Union), marking an end to WWII in Europe.
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Soviet Union, Britian, and America met to negotiate an end to WWII.
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American airplanes dropped the first ever atomic bomb on Hiroshima followed my Nagasaki the next day, leading to Japan's surrender.
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Japan Surrenders, finally ending WWII.
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Meeting with US, UK, and Soviet Union to discuss how to rebuild Europe after WWII.
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Presdent Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic aid to all democratic nations. This was said to be the start of the Cold War.
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The US gave Europe 13 billion dollars to help repair their economy after WWII.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was made to unify and strengthen the Western Allies’ military response. Their enemies were the Warsaw Pact; a Soviet started communist group.
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The leadership of Mao Zedong ended China's war between the Nationalist and Communist Party, begining the People's Republic of China.
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A war between North and South Korea, the first militarty action of the Cold War.
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Josef Stalin died, and Nikita Khrushchev rose to power. He started off as the secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, and then became premier in 1958.
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Opened Russian-American spcae race to the moon
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A failed attempt by America's CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro.
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Built by the German Democratic Republic to keep the fascist in the West out the socialist East Gemany.
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A 3-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba
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It put the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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First Soviet president.
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The Soviet Union fell when the west defeated the east, democracy reigned over totalitarianism, and there was superiority of capitalism over socialism.
