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WWII & Cold War Timeline

  • Jpan Invades China

    Jpan Invades China

    Japan's invasion of China starts the WWII in the Pacific.
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    WWII & Cold War Timeline

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland

    Germany's invasion of Poland causes the world war to start in Europe.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom
  • Tripartite pact

    Tripartite pact

    The tripartite pact was when the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act was the principle means of US providing military aid to foreign nation during WWII.
  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
  • D-DAY

    D-DAY

    On this day the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin sat down and decided the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
  • Hitler Commtts suicide

    Hitler Commtts suicide

    Hitler Comitts suicide because the US was comming for him.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, to nagostiate in terms of ending the war.
  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    United States bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki to put an end to the World War II.
  • 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.
  • Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    Stalin’s death; Khrushchev

    Stalin died on March 5, 1953 and Nikkita Khruhchev came to power because he was a loyal and longlasting side man of Stalin.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, it was a defence organization that put Soviet Union incharge of the armed forces of the member states.
  • Vietnam War

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    On this day the Soviet Union sent an artificial satellite in to space which brought technology in to that country and demonstrated that the country was capable of modern feats.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    This was the day US decided to overthrow Fidel Castro because they realized his relationship with Nikita Khrushchev.