WWII and post-WWII events By kevin Acosta Jan 30, 1933 Holocaust Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland Nov 30, 1939 Stalin attacks Finland May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain May 10, 1940 Germany attacks France Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain Oct 28, 1940 Hitler takes over the Balkans Mar 11, 1941 Lend-Lease Act Jun 22, 1941 German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union Dec 7, 1941 Bombing of Pearl Harbor Feb 12, 1942 Japanese internment camps Jun 3, 1942 Battle of Midway Aug 7, 1942 Guadacanal Aug 23, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Oct 23, 1942 Battle of El Alamein Nov 28, 1943 Tehran Conference Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Apr 12, 1945 F.D.R’s death Apr 28, 1945 Mussolini’s assassination Apr 30, 1945 Hitler’s suicide Aug 2, 1945 Potsdam Conference Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Sep 8, 1945 McArthur’s plan for Japan Oct 24, 1945 Formation of the U.N. Nov 20, 1945 Nuremburg Trials Mar 5, 1946 Churchill Speech Iron Curtain (led to the begining of Cold War) Apr 3, 1948 Marshall Plan Jun 24, 1948 Berlin Airlift Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Wall Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
