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Holocaust
Genocide in which the Nazi killed over 6 millions European Jews -
Night of the Long Knives
"Purge" of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler
Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler got his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders. -
Germany invades Poland
because of the German-Soviet Pact of August 1939 that stated Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, which let Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet intervention. -
Stalin attacks Finland
War that was waged by the Soviet Union against Finland at the beginning of World War II -
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Britain
during the outbreak of the WWII, he was re-positioned to the First Lord of the Admiralty. Following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's resignation in 1940, Churchill replaced him. -
Germany attacks France
defeated the allied forces by mobile operations and took over France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands -
Battle of Britain
German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing. -
Lend-Lease Act
the material and services supplied by the United States to its allies during WWII under an act of Congress -
Hitler takes over the Balkans
Hitler had been planning to invade Greece in November because the British had Crete and Lemnos. He ordered the German Invasion of Greece with code-named Unternehmen Marita (Operation Marita) -
German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union
Invaded the Soviet Union in the largest German military operation of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R. during World War II. ... It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union -
Japanese Internment Camps
Est. during WW II by President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. -
Battle of midway
occurred between opposing fleets at sea. Fought mostly with aircraft, it resulted in the destruction of four Japanese aircraft carriers, which cause a cripple in the Japanese navy. -
Guadalcanal
The first major offensive and victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater.Also with Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, while United States marines launched a surprise attack -
Battle of El Alamein
War that took place near the Egyptian railway
With the Allies victorious, it was the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Naval Base
This bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. -
Tehran Conference
Strategy meeting between Joseph Stalin , F.D.R, Winston Churchill, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran -
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France -
Yalta Conference
the 2nd wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The leaders agreed to Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
F.D.R’s death
32nd U.S. President; died in Warm Springs GA
Cause of death intracerebral hemorrhage -
Mussolini’s assassination
Was executed at the Lake Como, by partisans as he tried to flee Italy. -
Hitler’s suicide
Kills himself because Germany was loosing the war -
Potsdam Conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan. Only three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. -
McArthur’s plan for Japan
V-J Day is marked the end of World War II and the beginning of a long road to recovery for a shattered Japan. -
Formation of the U.N.
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations -
Nuremburg Trials
Germany was chosen as a site for trials
Judges from the Allied powers— hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
Cold War
Geopolitical tension between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc -
Marshall Plan
Was officially the European Recovery Program
American initiative to help Western Europe, because the United States gave over $13 billion dollars -
Berlin Airlift
The United States and British pilots started delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city was isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A very dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was when the two "superpowers" came so close to a nuclear conflict. -
Berlin Wall
Guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin
