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The Japanese Kwantung Army turned a small incident into a full-scale war. Chinese forces were unable to effectively resist the Japanese.
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German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begins.
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The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940.
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The Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.
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The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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As part of their offensive campaign in the Soviet Union, German bombers blast through Leningrad's antiaircraft defenses, and kill more than 1,000 Russians.
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turning point on WWII when Hitler failed.
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing 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 Party and German government officials gathered in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
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One of the most important naval battles of World War II.
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The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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both fought in the Pacific War in WWII
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Dictator of Germany shoots himself.
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The day marking the Allied victory in Europe
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman; met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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The United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan killing tens of thousands of civilians.
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The USS Missouri hosts the formal surrender of the Japanese government to the Allies.
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The Truman Doctrine was a very simple warning clearly made to the USSR that the USA would intervene to support any nation that was being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority.
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Channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe
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an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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Naming himself head of state, communist revolutionary Mao Zedong officially proclaims the existence of the People's Republic of China; Zhou Enlai is named premier.
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Cold War between North and South Korea
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Nikita Khrushchev has been selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party.
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a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states
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The world's first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
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1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.
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was the most dangerous passage of the Cold War
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He became the first president of the Soviet Union
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the cold war ended resaulting in the fall of the Soviet Union.
