WWII and Cold War Timeline

  • Gorbachev

    Gorbachev

    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. March 2, 1931 born
  • japan's invasion of china

    japan's invasion of china

    Japan invading manchuria started WWII
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Air campaign in WWII by the german air force against the united states.
  • tripartite pact

    tripartite pact

    ten year military and economic pact between japan, germany and italy
  • Lend lease act

    Lend lease act

    Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
  • Germany takes Leningrad

    Germany takes Leningrad

    The siege of Leningrad lasted from September 1941 to 1944. By the end of the siege, some 632,000 people are thought to have died with nearly 4,000 people from Leningrad starving to death on Christmas Day, 1941.
  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    bliyzkrieg means lightning war
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Caused the US to join the war
  • Formation of the UN

    Formation of the UN

    During the Second World War, representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    fifteen nazi bureaucrats gathered to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the final solution
  • battle of midway

    battle of midway

    Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II.
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, is also known as D-Day. It happened along the coast of Frances’s Normandy region. The allies won by freeing Western Europe from Nazi control and defeating Germany.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference took place in Russian from February 4–11, 1945, during WWII. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the progress of the war and the postwar world.
  • Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Iwo Jima/Okinawa

    Feb 19, 1945 - Jun 21, 1945. Japanese islands that the US wanted because their capture would bring even the city of Tokyo within the range of American B-29 bombers.
  • Hitler's suicide

    Hitler's suicide

    Hitler shot himself in the head on this day.
  • VE Day

    VE Day

    VE Day officially announced the end of World War II in Europe.
  • potsdam conference

    potsdam conference

    A conference was held in potsdamgermany from july 17 to august 2 1945 to negotiate terms for the end of WWII
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan surrendured
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day

    On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, ending World War II. Both August 14 and August 15 are now known as “Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan

    The plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall. it was made to restore the confidence of the europeans in their economic futures.
  • NATO

    NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance against the sovirt union
  • Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao Zedong &People’s Republic of China

    Mao proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a one-party socialist state controlled by the CPC
  • korean war

    korean war

    war between south and north korea
  • stalin's death and khrushchev

    stalin's death and khrushchev

    stalin died of a hemorrage. Khrushchev took over
  • Warsaw pact

    Warsaw pact

    The Soviet Union and seven other European countries signed a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, which was a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    1959 - April 30, 1975. War between nationalists trying to unify Vietnam through communism and the united states trying to stop communism.
  • bay of pigs

    bay of pigs

    The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure and was embarassing for the US
  • berlin wall

    berlin wall

    wall between west and east germany
  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis

    For thirteen days the world in october the world waited for a nuclear crisis and hoped for peace
  • Fall of the soviet union

    Fall of the soviet union

    The Soviey Union fell, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. Gorbachev was disappointed and resigned from his job on December 25.