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Was the Soviet Union ruler after 1985. He renewed attacks on Stalinism, and urged reduction in nuclear armament. He proclaimed policies of glasnost and perestroika.
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Japan invaded China because Japan was eager to take China's resources.
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Germany invaded Poland which broke the non-agression pact so Britain and France declared war on Germany.
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The Battle of Britain was a air campaign waged between the Luftwaffe and United Kingdom.
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Treaty that made Germany, Italy, and Japan allies.
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Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act which the legislation gave President Franklin D. Roosevelt the powers to sell, transfer, exchange, lend equipment to any country to help it defend itself against the Axis powers.
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Nazi Germany and its Axis partners invade Soviet Union. The Germans overrun the Baltic States, joined by the Fins, and lay seige to Leningrad.
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German unsuccessfully launches aBlitzkrieg on the Soviet Union, which makes this the turning point in the war.
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Japan attacked the U.S because they didnt want the U.S to attack them so that they could keep taking over Southeastern Asian countries. Also to weaken the U.S and take over the Pacific.
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations. The aim of the U.N was cooperation between international law, international security, social progress, human rights, and world peace. Founded after WWII to replace League of Nations and stop world wars.
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A meeting for which the "final solution" and concentration camps were used.
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Japanese had planned to capture a strategic island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, home to an American military base. Japs wanted to lure the Americans into a battle they were sure to lose. The Americans broke their code, so they planned a defense and the Americans beat the Japanese.
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American, British, and Canadian forces land on 5 beach's along the coast of Normandy, it was one of the largest water battles in history. Prior to D-day the Allies tried to mislead the Germans in where they would originally land. The allies ended up defeating the Germans.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill meet , and Russia agrees to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany, and in return FDR and Chruchill promised the USSR concession of all the territories it had lost in the Ruso-Japanese war.
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Iwo Jima and Okinawa were on of the most difficult battles and the capture of it greatly increased the air support and bombing operations.
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Killed himself with a cyanide capsule capsule and gunshot. His wife Ava just used a capsule.
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Nazi surrenders, which ends in European victory.
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Meeting between Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to discuss how each side would take reparations from its own occupation zone. They also divided up Germany,and created Council of Foreign Ministers, and marked the end of wartime alliance.
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The U.S drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and 3 days later on Nagasaki. U.S wanted the Japanese to surrender during the Potsdam Decleration, but Japan ignored this or wasn't given enough time to reply so President Truman was forced to give the orderes to drop the bomb.
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Surrender of Japan ending WWII.
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President Truman established that the U.S would provide any help to democratic nations that need it.
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President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act, which states the the U.S provide economic assistance to restore the infrastruct of Europe.
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The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C.
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Mao Zedong named himself head of the state and proclaims the exsistence of People's Republic of China.
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The Korean war was when North Korean soldiers crossed the 38th parallel line, this was the first act of the cold war. The U.S joined the war on behalf of South Korea. Neither side won the battle but both sides suffered many casualties.
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After Stalin passes Krushchev rises to power.
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A political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations, this was in response to NATO.
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The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against forces from France and then America, and later against South Vietnam.
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This was Earth's first artificial statellite. The Soviet Union launched it into orbit.
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Unsuccessful invasion of Cuba .
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The Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the U.S and the Soviet Union over the Soviet ballistic missles deployed in Cuba.
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The Berlin wall was the dividing line between free and communist Berlin.
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The fall of the Soviet Union happens because of growing protests against repression, and increased concern about the limits of the Soviet Economic system.
