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Chinese began resisting Japanese influence. Japanese occupied lots of eastern China
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Started WWII.
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Between Britain and Germany. Germany air bombed london.
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Established Axis powers of WWII.
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Germany air attcked the Soviet Union. They efficiently combined air and ground attack.
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Lasts 872 days.
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Japan bombed US. Brought US into the war.
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Planning of the final solution which was the killing of lots of jews.
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America beat Japan in a naval battle. Six months after pearl harbor.
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US helped its allies by providing war materials and food.
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Allied invasion of Normandy.
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Between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss how to deal with defeated and liberated European countries.
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Big battles. American invasion. Needed a base near japan
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Killed himself so he couldn’t be taken prisoner by the soviets.
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Allied powers to discuss social and economic issues.
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Formal end to Hitler's war.
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Churchill, Truman, Stalin. Discussed peace settlements in Europe.
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US bombed Japan. Ended the war in the Pacific.
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Japan surrendered unconditionally to the allies. Ended WWII.
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Declared economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey who were both threatened by communists.
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Designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 European countries to create stable conditions for democracy.
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US and 11 other Western nations. Prospect of communist expansion. (north atlantic treaty organization.)
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Named himself head of state. Created communist china.
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North Korea invaded south Korea. US went to help.
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Stalin died in 1953. Krushchev took over in 1958 after pushing Malenkov out of the way.
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US wanted to stop Vietnam from becoming communist.
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Made by soviet union and other communist nations as a rival alliance to NATO.
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First satellite launched by man. Launched by soviet union.
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Invasion of Cuba by exiled Cubans. Funded by US.
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separated communist and democratic capital berlin into two cities.
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US embargo with Cuba gave Soviet union the chance to make an “alliance” with Cuba which eventually ended with Soviet union putting missiles in Cuba. Almost started nuclear war because US obviously wasn’t too happy.
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Last general secretary of soviet union.Brought end to soviet union and cold war. President of soviet
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Gorbachev made reforms to make soviet union democratic and became president. A day after he resigned it collapsed.
