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Japans invasion of China
Japan takes control over most of east China -
Germany invades Poland
germany defeats poland only after a few weeks of invading them. -
Land-Lease Act
united states lended weapons and war materials to the allies and wanted to gain land in return -
Battle of Britain
Happened during WWII, british defence against the german air force. -
Tripartite pact
pact between italy germany and japan that formed the axis powers -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
hitler decides to invade soviet union after signing a pact not to invade eachother in 1939 -
germany takes leningrad
germanyblocks all things coming in or out of the cuty of leningrad for 872 days -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
japanese bomb a u.s naval base in honolulu Hawaii -
Wannsee Conference
Nzis gather and decided to abort old plan and instead roud up all jews and put them in labor gangs -
Battle of Midway
ended any japanese threats to the pacific. fought by usa and japan mostly in aricrafts and USA completely destroyed their first line which contained its most important pilots -
D-Day
the day the usa invaded normandy france and marched to find hitler -
Formation of the U.N.
26 countries came together to form an alliance -
yalta conference
meeting between usa soviet union and great britain on the final defeat of thr nazis -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
united states and japan fought over an island that they both needed for their militaries -
Hitler's suicide
hitler shoots himself after being told that the russians were only one day away -
VE Day
defeate on europe. when allies beat the nazi war machines -
Potsdam Conference
U.S. , Britain, and the Soviet Union discussed peace settlements in Europe. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
USA used massive atomic bombs on japan -
VJ Dday
the day that japan surrenders to the allies -
Truman Doctrine
truman decides to help turkey and greece because britain couldnt anymore and us didnt want them to become communist -
Marshall plan
U.S didnt want countries to get stabilized that way they wouldnt turn to communism to get out of poverty -
NATO
was a military alliance -
mao zedong and the peoples epublic of china
Mao Zedong calls himself leader of the peoples republic of china (communist) -
Stalin’s death; Khrushchev
Stalin died on a heart attack in in 1953 Khrushchev came to power in 1956 after stalin. he trashed stalin and told the people all the things that stalin had done wrong -
korean war
north korea tried to invade south korea to tun it into communist but south korea was acked up by the united states so it didnt work -
Vietnam War
vietnam wanted freedom from the french colonizers. they wanted to be communist ( that was the main conflict) -
Warsaw Pact
soviet union, albania,bulgaria, czechoslovakia,east germany , hungary, poland, and romania came together in a defence agreement to protect eachother -
Sputnik
first satellite sent by humans into space by the sovietunion -
Bay of Pigs
U.S invades Cuba, Cuba wins -
berlin wall
Berlin wall seperated germany into two different parts communism and democracy during the cold war -
Cuban Missile Crisis
soviet union put nuclear missiles in cuba so the us was ready to cause a naval bockade then soviet unions promised to take the missil out of cuba if the usa didnt attack cuba -
Gorbachev
became first president of the soviet union in 1990 -
Soviet Union falls
11of the soviet unions republics said that they wouldnt be part of the soviet union any longer so it all got spread apart and the soviet union fell apart
