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Despite having loss many men, Japan was able to force Gerneral Ma from Tsitsihar by November 19.
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Entering through Warsaw, German force invade Poland (on land and in the air) to regain loss territory and ultimately control.
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This battle was the attempt of Germany's Air Force to gain complete air superiority and invade Britian. However, they failed.
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An agreement between Germany (Adolf Hitler), Italy(Galeazzo Ciano), and Japan (Saburo Kurusu) to form the Axis Powers.
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The Lend-Lease Act was the means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. Started by Truman's Doctrine; March 1940.
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Hitler made the strategic decision to circle Leningrad and suround the city into surrendering rather than take valuable resources to attacking it directly.
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Surprise attack by Japan, Japan bombed the American Naval Base of Pearl Harbor in response to neutralize the U.S. pacific fleet and protect Japan advances to the Dutch Indies.
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The Wannsee Conference held in Berlin with the top 15 Nazis to come up with a plan to kill the entire Jewish population of Europe, about 11 million people.
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A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.
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Thanks to code breaking, the United States was able to counter Japan’s planned ambush.
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The Allies invaded Western Europe in a large attack.This day marked the beginning of the end of war in Europe.
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U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Union Dictator Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
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Battle fought between the Japanese and the United States. Known as "Operation Detachment", lasted until 26 March 1945 when the last Japanese soldiers were captured or killed.
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After lossing WWII and to escape reprocussions, Hitler kills himself.
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Victory in Europe Day. On this day Britian and the United States celebrate the end of the Nazis and put up their flags.
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Held in Germany; Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill all met to negotiate terms for the end of WWII.
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These 2 bombings which killed at least 130,000 people helped encourage Japan to surrender from WWII.
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Victory in Japan Day. The end of WWII. A formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.
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Representatives at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations, pledging to use their resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
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President Harry Truman anounced that the United States would provide military, political, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under the the threat of communism.
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The Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program) was an American aid Europe.The United States gave $13 billion (then) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after WWII
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To prevent the further spread of Communism the United States and 11 other Western nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Communist revolutionary Mao Zedong officially proclaims the existence of the People’s Republic of China.
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North Korean Army went across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Korea and South Korea.
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The Soviet government named Nikita Khrushchev as one of the selected five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party following Stalin's Death. He was named secretary September 1953.
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The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance) was a defense treaty among 8 communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
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Costly war that 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. North Vietnam being the victors ended in 1975.
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The world's first artificial satilite launched by the Soviet Union.
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CIA's full invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who fled their home when Fidel Castro took over. However, the invaders were heavily outnumbered by Castro's troops and surrenedered within 24 hours of fighting.
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
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Former Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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A barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the Nazis.
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Representatives from 11 Soviet republics met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union and declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States.
