WWII and post-WWII events

By kevin Acosta

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

  • Stalin attacks Finland

    Stalin attacks Finland

  • Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

    Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain

  • Germany attacks France

    Germany attacks France

  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

  • Hitler takes over the Balkans

    Hitler takes over the Balkans

  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

  • German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

    German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

  • Japanese internment camps

    Japanese internment camps

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

  • Guadacanal

    Guadacanal

  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

  • Battle of El Alamein

    Battle of El Alamein

  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

  • D-Day

    D-Day

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • F.D.R’s death

    F.D.R’s death

  • Mussolini’s assassination

    Mussolini’s assassination

  • Hitler’s suicide

    Hitler’s suicide

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  • McArthur’s plan for Japan

    McArthur’s plan for Japan

  • Formation of the U.N.

    Formation of the U.N.

  • Nuremburg Trials

    Nuremburg Trials

  • Churchill Speech Iron Curtain

    Churchill Speech Iron Curtain
    (led to the begining of Cold War)

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall