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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People's Republic of China, a communist government for China. -
Gorbachev
General Secretary of the Soviet Union that eventually ended both the Soviet Union by his economic reforms. -
Japan Invades China
The Japanese claim they were shot at by the Chinese and invade for this reason from Manchuria. -
Germany Invades Poland
German troops invade Poland causing Poland to ask Britain nad france for help. Britain and France declare war on Germany officially starting Worl War II. -
Battle of Britain
Battle between the British and the Germans that was fought completely in the air, and it started after France quit WWII. -
Tripartite Pact
Germany, Italy and Japan sign a treaty making them all allies known as the Axis Powers. -
Lend- Lease Act
An act passed by congress that allowed the US to provide military aid to any country they choose, allowing them to support Allied voutries in WWII -
Germany Blitzkreig Invades the Soviet Union
Germany engages in lightning war with the Soviet Union, however with US aid the Soviet Union prevails. -
Germans Seige Leningrad
Germany takes countrol of supply lines into Leningrad, leaving the people to starve to death. -
Pearl Harbor is Bombed
The Japanese bombed the US naval base in Hawaii, spurring the US to join WWII. -
Formation of the UN
The countries fighting the axis powers met to create an organization to promote international cooperation and peace called the United Nations. -
Wannsee Conference
A meeting of German officers to decide what the "Final Soulution" to the Jewish problem was. -
Battle of Midway
THe turning point for the US war in the pacific, they took Midway from the Japanese putting them in an offensive position for taking the rest of the pacfic. -
D-Day
The day Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, starting the summer long battle that would liberate Northern France and lead to the Allies winning the war. -
Yalta Conference
Allied leaders came together in Yalta to discuss what was to happen post WWII. -
Iwo Jima/Okinawa
Battles fought on Japanese islands between th Japanese and the US where the US won, providing them with naval bases closer to Japanese territory. -
Hitler's Suicide
Adolf Hitler shoots himself when realizing he is about to lose WWII. -
VE Day
An abbreviation for "Victory in Europe" Day, this was the date when the Germans and European Axis powers fighting in WWII finally surrendered. -
Postdam Conference
Stalin, Churchill and Truman met in Postdam, Germany to discuss how to punish Germany for WWII and to still keep fighting in the Pacific. -
Bombing of Hiroshmia
The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb named "little boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
The US dropped the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, leading to Japanese surrender 6 days later. -
VJ Day
Japan surrendered to the Allies and World War II officially ended. -
Truman Doctrine
A speech given by US president Truman stating that the US will give aid to any democratic country that is under threat. -
Marshall Plan
Spurred by the thoughts of Secretary of State George Marshall, it was a plan created by the US to help rebuild Western Europe. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a group of anti-communist powes in an attempt to stop the ally against the communist countries, and it wa srivaled by the Warsaw pact. -
Korean War
War in the Korean penninsula that occurred when North Korea crossed the 38th parrallel into South Korea. The US was involved with the war on South Korea, and eventually the war ended with the 38th parallel being hte dividing line between the two countries, as it is today. -
Stalin's Death/Rise of Khrushchev
Stalin, leader of the Soviet union and Communist Party, dies of a storke in 1953, leaving Khrushchev to lead Russia (however he quickly denounces all of Stalin's ways). -
Warsaw Pact
A treaty signed between the Soviet Union and it's satellite coutries like Bulgaria and Hungary that put the Soviet Union in control of the armies ofall the countries in volved. -
Sputnik is launched
The first successfully launched man-made satellite, created by the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs
The US sent 1200 cuban exiles that had been trained by the CIA to attack the Castro government in Cuba, however the attack failed miserably. -
Berlin Wall
A wall created to divide fascist west Germany and Socialist East germany and keep them from having contact. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The US learns about muclear missles from the Soviet Union in Cuba and the US eventually comes to terms saying they will not invade Cuba if they get rid of the weapons. -
The US Enters the Vietnam War
THe US decides to enter the Vietnam War since Vietnam is what is known as a domino country, where if it falls to communism, other coutries around it will too. -
Soviet Union Falls
The Soviet Union disenegrated into 15 seperate countries as a result of new policies set in place by Gorbachev and new nationalistic feeling by seperate countries.
