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Gorbachev
Last General Secretary of Communist Party of Soviet Union. -
Japan's Invasion of China
Japan claimed that China had fired shots on them and then used that as excuse to successfully invade Manchuria. Japan then used Manchuria as a launching base for troops. -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland by land and air. this was one of the events that led to the start of WW2 -
Battle of Britain
Germany's way to gain air superiority over Britains Royal Air Force. German failed to succeed -
Tripartite Pact
Axis Powers formed by Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies by signing the Tripartite Pact in Berlin -
Lend-Lease Act
Lend- Lease was passed on March 1941. It was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Blitzkrieg was a war tactic for the Germans and the Soviet Union suffered great losses when it was used against them. -
Germany takes Leningrad
Germans swiftly fly through Leningrad's defenses and kill over a thousand Russians. Part of attack on Soviet Union. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Many American Navy vessels were destroyed along with American soldiers -
Formation of the U.N.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a declaration signed by representatives of 26 countries, called the "United Nations." International Post-war peacekeeping organization -
Wannsee Conference
The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of departemnts responsible for the various policies relating to the Jews -
Battle of Midway
The U.S. defeated Japan's very intelligent naval base. allowed U.S. to move in an offensive position. -
D-Day
D-Day aka Battle of Normandy. British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches on France's Normandy region. One of the largest military assaults. -
Yalta Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt decide to demand Germany’s surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
The Americans needed a base near the Japanese Coast and took Iwo Jima. -
Hitler’s suicide
Hitler committed suicide by gunshot. -
VE Day
Nazi German forces surrendered. -
The Potsdam Conference
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman all met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate the terms to the end of the world war 2 -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S. used the Enola Gay to bomb Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing thousands of people and putting an end to the war -
VJ Day
The day that Japan had surrendered unconditionallu to the Allies, ending World War 2 -
Truman Doctrine
Truman established a doctrine to ask for 400 million dollars to aid Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan was also known as the European Recovery Program and directed over 13 billion dollars to finance the economic recovery of Europe till 1951 -
NATO
NATO was established by 12 different nations. Military alliance against Soviet Union -
Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China
Mao Zedong annouced that the new Chinese government will be under the control of the Communist Party of China. -
Korean Way
Fight between commmunist and non-communist forces in Korea. Resulted in the division of Korea. -
Stalin's death; Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev was a Commasar in the War. He fought in several crucial battles in Russia.
March 5th, 1953 Stalin died by crebral hemorrhage. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty to establish the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization the puts the Soviets in command of the armed forced of the member states. -
Sputnik
The Soviet successfully launched the world's first satellite. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States trying to prevent the spread of communism. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was when a CIA group of Cuban refugees landed in Cuba and attempted to overturn the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was big failure. -
Berlin Wall
Purpose was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and damage the social state. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
U.S. and the Soviet Union get into political and military standoff for the installation of nuclear weapons on Cuba -
Soviet Union falls
Few days before this many country's representatives got together and annouced they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
