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The Japanese invaded China. China was unable to resist the invasion because the Japanese military was only well armed but they were also brutal.
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Germany invades Poland from the west, while the Soviet Union invaded from the east.
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A system used by the U.S. in aiding the WWII allies with war materials.
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successful defense of the Britain against the German
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The Axis power was formed when Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.
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Germany surrounded Leningrad and bombed it. They decided not to storm the city.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union, eventhough they had a non-aggression pact.
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Japan launched a surprise attack on American soil at Peral Harbor,
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The rpresentatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations, which promoted the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
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Nazi meeting to discuss the plan of "final solution"
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Naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft. U.S.A. destroyed Japan's first line carrier strength.
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The Allied invasion whioch launched the U.S, British, and Canadian forces on five separated beachheads in Normandy, France. By the end of the day the northern part of France was freed from the Germna forces.
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A conference took place in a Russian resort town in Crimea. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
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The U.S. used the process of island hopping to push the Japanese advancement back. The U.S attacked Iwo Jima first, then they attacked Okinawa.
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Hitler shot himself and his wife drank poison
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the day marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945
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The Soviet Union, Britain, and the U.S meet to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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Atomic bomb was dropped on this Japanese cities to end WWII.
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The day the Japanese ceased fighting the allies.
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The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts.
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A U.S sponsored program that was designed to help the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to creat a stable economy for those countries that have democracy that could survive.
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military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty which was created to go against Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II
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Mao Zedong is a communist revolutionary offcial, who named himself head of state of the People's Republic of China.
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Conflict between North and South Korea. North Korea gained advice and support from the Soviet Union and invaded South Korea.
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Stalin's death led to a change in policy afected both education and science.
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Conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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teaty establishing a mutual-defense organization made by the Soviet Union
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The day the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik into space.
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An abortive invasion of Cuba that was financed and directed by the U.S. government.
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Barrier that sorrounds the west Berlin and prevents access to it from east Berlin. It was built by the Soviet Union.
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Major confrontation that brought the U.S and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of nuclear missles in Cuba brought over by the Soveit Union.
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He was the president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. His efforts to democratize his country’s political system and decentralize its economy led to the downfall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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A decline in economy and poorly execured plans led to the fall of the Soviet Union.
