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Japan's invasion of China was due essentially to Japan's desire to be an imperial power.
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The action by Germany that began World War II
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The Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom.
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On this day in 1940, the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.
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It provided that the president could ship weapons, food, or equipment to any country whose struggle against the Axis assisted U.S. defense.
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The largest German military operation of World War II.
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a prolonged military operation undertaken by the German Army Group North against Leningrad
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States
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a high-level meeting of Nazi officials that took place in Berlin
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A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean
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a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt as World War II was winding down.
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Key Campaigns and Battles of World War II The Pacific and Far East Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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the day marking the Allied victory in Europe
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area followed by the bombing of Nagasaki.
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When Japan formally surrendered.
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an intergovernmental organization established to promote international co-operation.
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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 forces.
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An American initiative to aid Europe
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An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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Former Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought between the United Nations
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Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, often with extreme brutality, from the death of Lenin until his own death.
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A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe
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a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite.
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In April 1961, the United States attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow premier Fidel Castro.
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The Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
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The final days of the German dictator in his underground bunker, leading up to his suicide on April 30 by swallowing cyanide and shooting himself in the head.
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He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved.
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The collapse of the Soviet Union started in the late 1980s and was complete when the country broke up into 15 independent states this signaled the end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.
