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Japan invades manchuria for resources and due to lack of resistance they move on to take over more of China
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German attacked Poland from both land and air, as Hitler tries to regain lost territory
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German and British airforces met and fought above the United Kingdom, Britain won
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Provided mutual assistance if any nation suffered attack that was not already in the war
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This act gave the president permission to transfer arms or other defenses materials
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union in its largest military operation of WWII
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German army surrounds the city of Lieningrad, beginning a seige that lasted a year and a half.
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Japan sent fighter planes to attack a naval base at Pearl harbor near Honolulu, there were 2000 casualties and many more vehicle desturctions
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Nazi officials met to talk and discuss the little parts of the Final Solution of the Jewish question
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U.S. aircraft sunk Japanese carriers which marked the turning point of WWII in the Pacific.
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The largest amphibous attack in history resulting in a succesful attack with over 2,000 casualties
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FDR, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta to discuss postwar world
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Americans invade Iwo Jima in need of a base near the Japanese coast. Okinawa was the last and biggest of the Pacific Island battles; it invovled nearly 300,000 of the U.S. troops.
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Hitler commited sucicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
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The day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms
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Last of World War 2 meetings held by the heads of state including the President , the Prime minister, and the soviet premier
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An american B-29 bomber dropped the first two atomic bombs over thr cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki immediatly killing 80,000 people.
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The day that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the allies
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Represntatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco to draw up the United Nations charter. The U.N. officailly came into existance whenit was ratified by the majority of the 50 countries.
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This Doctrine established that the United States would provide political and military assistance to all democratic nations under attack
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This plan gave over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of europe
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Members of North Atlantic Treaty Organization agree to mutual defense and repsonse to attack by any external party.
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After naming himself head of state, Mao Zedong proclaimed the existance of the People's Republic of China, officially making them communist.
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75,000 soldiers from North Korea crossed the 38th parallel starting the Korean War, which caused nearly 5 million deaths.
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After Stalin died, Khrushchev came into power as the leader of the soviet union
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Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establshing the warsaw pact, which puts the soviets in command of the armed forces
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Today was the day the soviet union launched the space age with its launch of sputnik the worlds first artificial satellite
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America invaded Cuba to spark an anti-Castro movement however this failed in epic proportions resulting in 114 deaths and over 1100 people taken prisoner.
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President John Kennedy told Americans about the prescnce of missles and explained how the U.S. was going to surround Cuba to show we are ready to fight.
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Communist forces seized control of Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.
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He launched the Soviet Union in a dramatic new course, which introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs, and international relations.
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People came to the wall with hammer s and picks and hit the wall while cranes and bulldozers pulled down section after section until East and West Germany was reunited.
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After many nations, including the Baltic States, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation, broke away from the USSR, they followed were many other nations until at last the Soviet Union fell.
