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The Japanese claimed that they were fired on by members of the Chinese army, they then used this excuse to launch a full scale invasion of China.
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German units with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive attack
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Means for providing U.S. military aid for foriegn countries during WWII
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German and British air forces clashed in the fall and summer of 1940.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin
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Germany swifly overran Europe using a war tactic called Blitzkrieg, which means lightning war.
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On September 29, 1941, the violoent seige of Leningrad began. Over the course of this bloody seige, around 632,000 people died.
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On this Day, the Japanese attacked American troops at Pearl Harbor in Hawii.
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Hitler laid out the plans for "the final soulution", which was Hitler's plan to exterminate all Jews from Germany.
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Represents the high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean War.
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Naming himself head of state, Mao Zedong proclaims the existence of the People's republic of China
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About 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily protected coast of France's Normandy region.
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The United States army fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima
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FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, made decisions about the future progress of the war and the post war world
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On this day, Adolf Hitler consumed a cyanide capsule, then shot himself with a pistol
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The day celebrated on May 81945, the marked Germany's surrender of its armed forces
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Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman met in Potsdam Germany to negotiate terms for the end of WWII
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These bombings were conducted by the U.S. during the final stages of WWII, this was the first time an atomic weapon was ever used
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On this day, Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending WWII
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The United Nations (UN) was formed to maintan peace after the war
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President Truman decided that the US would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from either internal or external forces.
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A plan intended to help rebuild the economies of western Europe
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An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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In the eyes of American officials, the Korean War was a war aginst communism itself, and that is why the US had to enter the war on South Korea's behalf
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Joseph Stalin suffers from a cerebral hemorrhage and dies at age 73
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He was the first secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union
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This war pitted North Vietnam against the United States, Viet Cong, and South Vietnam
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The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites establish a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states
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Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite
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On this day, Cuban exiles launched an unsuccessful invasion on the Bay of Pigs
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The East German government put up the Berlin Wall to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the west
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A 13 day political and military standoff over Soviets sending missles into on Cuba
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Gorbachev initiated many events that marked the beginning of the end of the cold war.
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A few days before Christmas Day, representatives from 11 different Soviet republics met in Alma-Ata and announced that that they would no longer be a part of the Soviet Union.
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I legend was born.
