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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.
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The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.
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The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention.
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It began with the Soviet invasion of Finland
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The German invasion of Western Europe
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Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter’s resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
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That is the air battle for England. that is the first major campaign fought entirely by air forces.
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The Balkan Campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece.
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President Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on 11 March 1941
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That was the a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory.
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Concentration camps and other institutions of the War Relocation Authority in the western United States.
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The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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The Originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces
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That took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign
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The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States
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The death of Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator.
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Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot.
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The Potsdam Conference was held at Resilience, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany
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The United States, at the order of President Harry S. Truman, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The Allied occupation of Japan at the end of World War II was led by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, with support from the British Commonwealth.
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order.
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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
