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Mao led China's communist revolution. He was the leader of the communist's party from 1935 and chief of state of the Republic of China from 1949 to 1959.
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The Japan said that China's troops fired at the Marco polo bridge near Beijing, which gave Japan a reason to attack china.
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After Great Britain anf France declared war on Germany, Germany took western half of Poland and soon after the Soviet Union took control of the eatern half.
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The Battle of Britain was the defense against Germany's air force.
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The Tripartite pact states that if Germany, Italy or Japan were attacked they would go and help each other out by any political, military and economic means.
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This was the United States first act of being involved in the war, the Len-Lease act help supply the countries that were fighting.
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Germany reached Leningrad and completely cut off the Soviet Union.
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The Japan ari force attack the United states, which lead the U.S. to entering the war.
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High ranked Nazi soldiers met in the suburbs of Berlin to discuss the implementation of what is called the "Final solution of the Jewish question".
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The United States defeated Japan's Naval and Air Force, this battle was the turning point of World War II.
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At first Germany seemed to be defeating the Soviet Union by pushing their forces to the gates of Moscow But after Germany declared war on the United States, they end up unable to defeat the Soviets.
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The Allies attacked German troops by air amd sea on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Allied powers met in Ukraine to come to agreement on how to divide Germany.
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The United States first attacked Iwo Jima and then came Okinawa, this was the U.S. way of gaining back control of the pacific.
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Hitler and his wife killed themselves by taking cyanide pill and then shot themselves.
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Japan surrender to MacArthur on then battleship Missouri.
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The Official day that Germany Surrender and gave Europe Victory.
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Allies met in the suburbs of Berlin to figure out what to do with Germany.
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The U.S. dropped Atomic Bombs on Japanese soil, to end the war in Japan.
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The United Nations is a intergovernmental organization, so if countries have a problem with another country, they can talk about it and come to an agreement.
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Marshall Plan was a rehabilitation plan to rebuild 17 countries in the east and southern parts of Europe sponsored by the U.S.
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NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
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The Korean war was between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Repiblic of Korea, to try and bring the country together under one economy, communism.
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Stalin died of a massive heart attack in 1953.
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The vietman war was caused to unify the whole country under communist rule.
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A treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization between East Germany, Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Albania and Czechoslovakia.
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Sputnik was the Soviet Unions launch of 10 artificial earth satellites.
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The U.S. government directed and financed an invasion of Cuba at Bay of Pigs by 1,500 Cuban that were exiled by Castro.
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The Berlin wall was built after worls war II and the dividing of Germany, into west and east. West Germany was under control of the Soviet Union and East Germany was under the conrtol of the United States.
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Cuban Missile Crisis brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union close to war. The soviets used Cuba to aim missile toward the U.S..
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President of the communist party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991.
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Eleven soviet republics (Ukraine, Armenia, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata to declare they would no longer be apart of the Soviet Union.
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Truman Doctrine declared immediate aid to Greece, threatened by soviet expanding in the Mediterranean and the communist influence.
